Amorim Subbing Off Zirkzee At Half-Time Was Bizzare – Gary Neville

Manchester United legend Gary Neville has blasted Ruben Amorim following Tuesday’s 1-1 draw with rock-bottom Wolves. He recently questioned the manager’s decision to substitute goalscorer Joshua Zirkzee at half-time, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, even though Zirkzee is no Cantona for Manchester United, he had to finish the match against Wolves because of his physicality, presence and experience.

Neville added that Amorim saying he did not change his formation because of the media proves that the media is constantly in his head.

His words, “They made Manchester United worse. Every single substitution was bizarre. If Zirkzee wasn’t injured and that was a tactical substitution, it was a really poor one.

Zirkzee isn’t Eric Cantona, by any stretch of the imagination, but he needed to be out there for physicality, for presence, for experience. And he’d scored. You couldn’t take him off. So I’m hoping he’s injured. I’m hoping he’s injured for Ruben Amorim.

He doesn’t need to say ‘I haven’t changed because of the media’ because then he’s telling us basically that the media is in his head. The reason he’s had to change is because the performance levels with the 3-4-3 have been so poor and the results have been appalling. When I see that we go back [to three at the back] after five minutes tonight and I’m thinking, no, Ruben, why have you done that? The manager has to look at that and think, I got that wrong. I complicated it.”

WOW.

Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division in the English football league system.

Nicknamed the Red Devils, they were founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, but changed their name to Manchester United in 1902. After a spell playing in Clayton, Manchester, the club moved to their current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910.

Alex Ferguson and his assistant Archie Knox arrived from Aberdeen on the day of Atkinson’s dismissal, and guided the club to an 11th-place finish in the league. Despite a second-place finish in 1987–88, the club was back in 11th place the following season. Reportedly on the verge of being dismissed, Ferguson’s job was saved by victory over Crystal Palace in the 1990 FA Cup final.

The following season, Manchester United claimed their first UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup title. That triumph allowed the club to compete in the European Super Cup for the first time, where United beat European Cup holders Red Star Belgrade 1–0 at Old Trafford. The club appeared in two consecutive League Cup finals in 1991 and 1992 the left and the right, but he’s not got any sense of danger yet, and empties the midfield area too readily.