I feel slightly bad for him. The two goals - one a donkey error by Depay and the other a goal of the week contender by Arnautovic - were just bad luck to happen to us on the same day. Just shows when the tide turns, you cannot run away from it no matter where you hide. I feel that is the thing with LVG. The stars seem to be aligned against him and when this happens it is better to cut our losses.
As a supporter for Van Gaal until last week, this is just a useless excuse.
When we were winning last year, many of our wins could have been attributed to "luck". But I, among others, defended Van Gaal and said that it's the team spirit, it's the right tactics, it's knowing how to grind out results. We didn't care how and why, we were happy with Van Gaal that he was getting the results.
So now that we're losing we're gonna switches sides on this? Nah, you can have bad luck in one game, two games, you can have bad luck when you try everything and hit the post and the bar and then somehow the other teams flukes a goal out of nowhere. But this is not about bad luck. We were playing like sh*t (for quite some time now), we don't even threaten to score enough, and we're wide open for counter attacks and don't challenge shots. What do you expect?
And by the way, the second goal is not goal of the week contender really, just a free shot on goal with nobody challenging or even blocking his view to the goal. When you let professional players take free open shots on your goal, then you better expect they're gonna hit the target sometimes. There is no luck about that.