Мениджърът след мача с Рома:“I think we didn’t play a good match,” Van Gaal said. “I don’t know if it was because of the height [altitude] of stadium, or the air, but all of my passers failed today. It wasn’t normal.
“When you see [Juan] Mata or [Ander] Herrera, and [Shinji] Kagawa, who are the best passers and everything goes wrong, it is the air, I believe.
“It was the height and the air, the ball was bobbling all the time. But we scored remarkable, fantastic goals and were able to keep the ball in possession in the second half.
“We are not used to this hot weather. When the World Cup was here in 1994 and games were played at noon, it was not very nice.
“America has a top sport climate, but you have to play football at the right time.
”You had 55,000 people watching us, but we could have performed much better. It was the height and the heat that affected us.”
Van Gaal added, “When you are 3-0 ahead, you just have to keep the ball as opponent has to run and run. It is very difficult, with this hot weather, to do that. We forgot to do that and we allowed Rome back into the game.I am pleased we have won, but it was not good.”
"Some of our passes failed, the ball was bobbling all the time and we didn’t create so much, but we scored three fantastic goals," he added.
"The pass from Rooney to Mata was unbelievable, despite the heat and the height. Mata was running with his brain at the right moment.
"They also scored one fantastic goal, so then it was 3-1. But the penalty was not right: you cannot award a penalty when a shot hits your hand or arm from two metres away."
"There is no Manchester United player who is fit," the manager declared. "Maybe the boys who have trained already before the tour, the ones who started on 7 July, are a little more fit.
"But the World Cup players are not fit. They have only had four days of training sessions, in the heat. So you cannot say they are fit.
"I have a lot of players who can play in the strikers’ positions. I have already said that our selection is not in balance. I can put six strikers in.
"So maybe next time I will put Zaha in because he is working hard. He is doing all the things I require or demand, so there is no problem."
