Video: Louis van Gaal says he is proud of his team despite the defeat in post-match interview

Louis van Gaal also expressed his disappointment with Chris Smalling's sending off.

Following his side’s 1-0 defeat to Manchester City in an away fixture, Manchester United head coach Louis van Gaal expressed his discontent with Chris Smalling’s sending off in an interview.

“I think the first yellow card for Chris Smalling,” he told SkySports. “I did not see but OK, the referee gives a yellow card. Then you know as a player you have a yellow and you cannot do what he did for the second yellow card. That is logical.”

"I say also a lot of things to the players and despite that they do not always follow what I have said. There is also emotion and sometimes you cannot control your emotion but it was not very smart."

He also spoke about his team’s will power, and insisted that he was proud of their show despite the defeat.

"I said to the boys that the willpower, the labour was unbelievable," van Gaal adds. "When you can give that, you can be very proud but in the end we have zero points and in sport it is always the goals that count. We were so close, despite of playing with 10 men. We created still more chances than in the first half. We were close but not close enough today and we have to improve."

Watch his post-match interviews here: