Louis van Gaal was unhappy with a stupid booking leading to Juan Matas red card in Manchester Uniteds 1-0 loss at West Brom. The Spaniard was sent off for the first time in his career for picking up two quick yellow cards, the first for preventing a quick free-kick and the second for tripping Darren Fletcher.Salomon Rondon then scored for the Baggies after the break to end Uniteds winning run and dent their top-four hopes. Asked about the red card awarded to Mata, Van Gaal told Sky Sports: The first was a stupid yellow card, you know it is a yellow card in advance. The second you know you already have one so you have to take that into account. Mike Dean sends Manchester Uniteds Juan Mata off You damage the team, but the referee has to know the person who makes the tackle and Mata never hurts an opponent.The referee has to know the character of the players and that is why an experienced referee is better because he knows the players and the game.The defeat sees United remain three points behind fourth-placed Manchester City having also played a game more.Its a big blow, these kinds of matches you have to win, said Van Gaal. We have played 60 minutes with 10 men against 11 and this is the fifth match in 14 days. Patrick Davison is joined by Gareth McAuley to discuss West Broms 1-0 victory over Manchester United It is very difficult to play against 11 and thats the reason we lost. We didnt give many chances away, only the goal really, its a big pity that we had to play with 10.With nine games left to play, Van Gaal now believes United need maximum points to finish in the top four.He added: We need 27 points, its a lot but it is always possible. Also See: West Brom 1-0 Man Utd Can Man Utd make top four? Henry on Utds top-four bid LISTEN: Super Sunday podcast Wholesale Custom Mets Shirts . - After leading the Saints to a fourth playoff appearance in five seasons, Drew Brees expressed confidence in the direction of his team and, perhaps more importantly, showed a willingness to listen to contract proposals if the team needs his help getting under the NFLs salary cap. Custom Mets Jersey China . Reassurance came from Paul Tesori, his caddie and close friend whose newborn son is in intensive care in a Florida hospital. 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It was his first victory since July 23 at Indianapolis.And while Busch has plenty of experience dominating at Richmond, he called this victory unexpected.We just kind of missed it all through practice. It wasnt good there, and then we qualified and it was just a handful in qualifying. We didnt qualify very well. Seventh, its not very well for my expectations, but we just worked on it, he said in Victory Lane.There at the start of the race we were really out of control and loose, and I got to fourth but I thought that was where we were going to kind of be, but then my guys had an awesome pit stop and got me out front. ... After that it was lights out, man. It was on a rail from there.The race was slowed by caution flags just twice, and that allowed Busch to build leads as long as seven seconds, or more, and to put virtually the entire field a lap down. At one point, there were only five cars on the lead lap.His margin of victory was a whopping 6.453 seconds. Only 11 cars finished on the lead lap.Erik Jones, Buschs Joe Gibbs RRacing teammate, finished second, followed by Brad Keselowski and points leader Elliott Sadler.dddddddddddde were second best, for sure, Jones said. We were running away from everybody else.Pole sitter Austin Dillon led the first 51 laps, but Busch led virtually the rest of the way, relinquishing the top spot to Jones for only two laps during green-flag pit stops.Whos hot: Brennan Poole started 31st and had raced himself into the top 10 before the race reached the halfway point, even though there was only one caution for seven laps in that time. He ran in the top 10 the rest of the way and finished 10th. ... Ryan Reed finished 11th and became the 10th series driver to lock himself into the series playoffs with one race left in the regular season.Whos not: Sadler, a native of Emporia, about 70 miles from Richmond, rallied to finish fourth but had a rough night through much of the race. He got lapped by Busch just past the midpoint and later got a stop-and-go penalty for speeding on pit road. He finished 12.8 seconds behind the race winner.They said it: Its been a good track for me over the years. Im not sure why. I remember the first time I was here, I think I knocked every wall down. -- Kyle Busch.Up next: The series move to Chicagoland Speedway for the last race before its 12-driver championship playoff begins. ' ' '