Gary Neville, former Manchester United player, considers that the red devils have a lot of individual quality but they don’t play as a team. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side suffered their first Premier League defeat at the weekend to Aston Villa, a game in which Bruno Fernandes missed a penalty.
“I’ve said this when they won, even when Ronaldo scored: they don’t play well enough as a team to win the championship. They don’t play well as a team,” explained Neville in a ‘Sky Sports’ podcast. “You have to be a compact team, with or without the ball, and when you surrender in just a few moments, that doesn’t guarantee wins in certain games,” he added.
Manchester United, which hasn’t won the Premier League since 2012/13, joined forces with Jadon Sancho, from Borussia Dortmund, Raphael Varane, from Real Madrid, and Cristiano Ronaldo, from Juventus.
“It takes game patterns and right now what I see is a group of individuals who play spaces, sporadically with the same patterns and combinations, but they need to come together as a group to define a game model. Only then can results be achieved. when you don’t play well,” added the former defender.
He added: “I look at Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City and I see teams. They play as a team. Ole [Gunnar Solskjaer] has to make United a team.”
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