Louis van Gaal admits the prospect of Champions League qualification makes Manchester United’s last-16 Europa League tie with Liverpool a must-win.
With both sides languishing outside of the top four in the Premier League, winning the Europa League offers the most realistic chance of qualifying for Europe's premier competition next season.
And Van Gaal conceded United's disappointing domestic form has placed added pressure on his team to advance past their arch-rivals into the last eight.
"You have to win - there is no difference [with it being a Cup competition]," Van Gaal said. "United and Liverpool is always a big game.
"It's historical and even bigger now because both teams are fighting for a Champions League place."
President-elect Donald Trump asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental activist and skeptic of vaccines, to chair a presidential commission on vaccine safety, Kennedy said Tuesday. The two have questioned whether vaccines cause autism, a claim consistently debunked by medical professionals across the board. The commission will be designed "to make sure we have scientific integrity in the vaccine process for efficacy and safety effects," Kennedy told reporters after the meeting with Trump. Kennedy said Trump requested the meeting, and the president-elect "has some doubts about the current vaccine policies and he has questions about it. His opinion doesn't matter, but the science does matter and we ought to be reading the science and we ought to be debating the science." Kennedy said Trump is "very pro-vaccine, as am I," but wants to maker sure "they're as safe as they possibly can be." In March 2014 — before he b...
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