Louis van Gaal: What Manchester United need to do to end losing streak
LOUIS VAN GAAL believes that Manchester United need to play with a higher tempo and get their strikers to score in order to end the club's recent poor form.
Reaction after West Brom beat Manchester United at Old Trafford
The Red Devils suffered their third straight defeat on Sunday afternoon as West Brom grabbed a 1-0 win at Old Trafford.
Robin van Persie missed a vital penalty from the spot, and United now have just three games remaining in order to seal a place in next season's Champions League ahead of Liverpool.
Van Gaal's men travel to Selhurst Park this weekend to take on Alan Pardew's Crystal Palace, and the Dutchman reckons that some clinical finishing plus more urgency on the ball will help United come away with the three points.
He said: "I saw a lot of good things [against West Brom] and in our evaluation I shall show that. But I'll also show what I have always shown in an evaluation which are the things that we have to improve upon.
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Louis van Gaal will be hoping to end United's losing run in the league against Crystal Palac
We have to improve ourselves. Not in creating chances but in finishing, because that's what we lacked
Louis van Gaal
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"That is my job as a manager, to do that. I am doing that every week. I shall do that until the end and I hope that we improve in that process. We have started playing football and then you are not good enough to hold the opponents in their own half.
"Also in offence, the possibility to score is much more difficult, so we have to improve ourselves. Not in creating chances but in finishing, because that's what we lacked.
"We need to play with a higher ball speed. Most managers say that but it's more difficult against so many bodies in front of you."