VIDEO: Louis Van Gaal uses charts to discredit long-ball accusations

Sam Allardyce's accusations following West Ham's draw with Manchester United obviously struck a nerve with manager Louis Van Gaal.

The United boss responded to Allardyce's long-ball claims with an unusual presentation Tuesday when he met with the media to defend his team's tactics, and provided charts to back-up his statements.

Allardyce citicised Van Gaal's tactics, implying the Dutch boss implemented long-ball methods in order to bring his team level in the final minutes of Sunday's match at Upton Park.

However, Van Gaal's charts show that, while United made more long-ball passes to their forwards, West Ham had the higher percentage of long-ball passes. The figures are contrary to Allardyce's allegation since United enjoyed the majority of possession and completed 343 passes overall, compared to the Hammers' 200.

"When you have 60 per cent ball possession do you think that you can do that with long balls?" Van Gaal asked reporters ahead of United's match Wednesday against Burnley.

"Yeah, long balls, in the width, to switch the play. You have to look at the data and then you will see that we did play long balls, but long balls wide, rather than to the striker. A ball to the forward striker is mainly caused long-ball play. It is not so difficult also to read that.

"You have to see the data and put the data in the right context I believe."

But the highlight of the peculiar news conference occurs near the end of Van Gaal's rant.

Keep an eye on the team's media manager, Karen Shotbolt, as Van Gaal distributes the stats.