Former Manchester United winger Steve Coppell doesn't expect Louis van Gaal to be sacked this week.

In the next four days United travel to League One strugglers Shrewsbury in the fifth round of the FA Cup before trying to overturn a first leg deficit in Europe against FC Midtjylland at Old Trafford, having been beaten 2-1 in Denmark.

Coppell, a United player between 1975 and 1983, expects United to win both games and does not expect the club to get rid of him even if they fail to do so.

"It's easy to criticise and I don't want to be jumping on any kind of bandwagon of laying out all his faults," Coppell told BBC Radio Five Live show Sportsweek.

"He's a man of quality and a man who has achieved success and at the moment this is a defining week - two good results and everyone will be looking forward, two bad results and everyone, again, will be questioning what he's done.

"Fourteen injuries, you have to give him time. I think they'd have to lose both (for Van Gaal to be sacked). I look at both those games and United should win them both and I really think they will, I really believe they will win both games. You'd have to question it if they don't.

"Has he had his day? This season is still defining, he could win the Europa League and FA Cup and everyone would say why on earth did we doubt him. The challenge is still there before him and he will be very aware of that.

"He is still in a situation where he can still salvage the season."