Terrace Talk Man United: Louis Van Gaal staves off ‘crisis’ talk for now

Whatever else has been going wrong for Louis Van Gaal, these days, he still has something going for him: luck, writes Richard Kurt.

Within 24 hours of last week’s dismal display at Cambridge, Chelsea and Manchester City promptly demonstrated what a full-on FA Cup disaster really looks like. And following a fortnight of Reds’ muttering about LVG’s apparent regression, what better league fixture to face next than one of the relegation certs at home?

By half-time against Leicester, the glass-half-full brigade could be excused for turning to their more pessimistic neighbours in the stands and chirruping: “Crisis? What crisis?”