Mickey needs to weave wand to save this team

Louis van Gaal’s entire coaching philosophy is based on three central tenets: defence, transition to attack and attack.

All of the Dutch manager’s training sessions are done with the ball – and all that pitch work is tailored towards coaching his players how to execute those key components of the game.

Anyone who has tried to coach a gameplan will be able to testify that some aspects of the game are harder to instil than others.