Louis van Gaal wary as Wolfbsurg await for Man United

But when pressed, he did concede that failure to progress to the knock-out stages would be a blow to a club the Dutchman is trying to restore to something like the former force it previously was at home and in Europe.
Van Gaal said: “We don’t want to be eliminated. But in sport it is always possible. You can’t win every year or every game. It’s not like that.