Cape Times

The goals are coming, insists Van Gaal

- Karolos Grohmann

BERLIN: Manchester United will be looking for the goals that have been so hard to come by this season when they travel to VfL wolfsburg today with their hopes of sealing qualificat­ion for the Champions League knockout stage still hanging in the balance.

All the talk among United supporters – raised on a tradition of exciting, uninhibite­d attacking football – is of the team’s lack of goals under what they believe to be manager Louis van Gaal’s sterile conservati­ve approach.

Since winning 2-1 at home to Wolfsburg in September, United have scored only twice in three Champions League games. In the Premier League the record is five goals in the last six games.

United captain Wayne Rooney, who missed Saturday’s goalless draw at home to West

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