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Robin van Persie insists Manchester United manager David Moyes needs time, but also admits they are ‘lousy’.<\/strong><\/p>\n United’s season went from bad to worse on Tuesday when they went down 2-0 to Greek champions Olympiakos in the last 16 of the Champions League.<\/p>\n Moyes shouldered the blame afterwards for their reversal in Athens, but with this being United’s last chance of silverware this term – the loss still came as a major blow to the club.<\/p>\n Given United are currently 11 points off a top-four finish, it has been suggested Moyes is under pressure at Old Trafford – but the Dutchman backed his boss.<\/p>\n “We are lousy – in a lousy position in the league, out of the cups and this looks a difficult one also”Robin van Persie.<\/p>\n “He is new and needs time. He’s working hard and so are we,” van Persie is quoted by\u00a0The Sun<\/i>.<\/p>\n “It’s easy to point at the manager but that’s not who I am. We need to do it on the pitch.”<\/p>\n But the former Arsenal man refused to pull any punches on their current plight.<\/p>\n “We are lousy – in a lousy position in the league, out of the cups and this looks a difficult one also,” he said.<\/p>\n “We are very disappointed. It’s a tough season.<\/p>\n “Sometimes we play good but not always. And we are not lucky. That’s no excuse, though. We need to turn it around.<\/p>\n “We are able to play in a high tempo with massive power but in Greece it was all too slow.<\/p>\n “Olympiakos didn’t create a lot either. The first goal was lucky, the second goal was a great one and for the rest of the game they didn’t have any good chances.”<\/p>\n Van Persie insists that United can still go through against Olympiakos, but concedes things won’t be easy.<\/p>\n “It is possible to beat them at home with 2-0 or 3-0, but it won’t be easy,” he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Robin van Persie insists Manchester United manager David Moyes needs time, but also admits they are ‘lousy’. United’s season went from bad to worse on Tuesday when they went down 2-0 to Greek champions Olympiakos in the last 16 of the Champions League. Moyes shouldered the blame afterwards for their reversal in Athens, but with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}