Manchester United legend, Gary Neville had come out to say that there was nothing wrong with how MUFC played against Liverpool.Neville recently revealed that the approach was right at an Anfield that MUFC has historically struggled at.
According to him, MUFC had the 2 best chances of the game and could’ve won if the players took their chances, so the plan definitely worked.
Gary added that he has been critical of this MUFC team in the past, so he will not praise them when they don’t deserve it.
His words, “I can never think of once when we went to Anfield – Sir Alex Ferguson may ring me tomorrow and say I am talking rubbish – but I can’t think of once where we went to Anfield and we were able to dominate the ball,”
“We were back up against it for the first hour of every single match I ever played. Even at 1-0 up with 25 minutes to go you could never go for it.
“Only [with] Louis van Gaal a few seasons ago did I see Manchester United dominate at Liverpool and thought ‘wow, that’s a performance’.
“Every other year that I have watched us at that ground I have seen us struggle until the last minute.
“So yesterday with 20 minutes to go I was thinking ‘what are you going to do Ole?’ He could maybe have put [Mason] Greenwood on 10 minutes earlier, Fernandes could have played better. They got the two biggest chances in the game and that plan worked other than the chances that were missed.”
The only thing I would say is that if Manchester United had put [Juan] Mata on or [Donny] Van de Beek on and gone for it, what would have ended up happening is that front three of Liverpool would have won the game and United would have lost.
“Liverpool are still a dangerous outfit even when they are not playing well, so to rewrite history and say Manchester United can go to Liverpool and dominate the ball… [Paul] Scholes and [Roy] Keane could not do that at Anfield playing against average players, let alone players who have won the Premier League and Champions League.”
“I have been critical of this Manchester United team in these last four or five years, so I am not going to sit here and defend them when I don’t need to.
“But yesterday at Anfield they were playing against a top Liverpool team and are establishing themselves in a place in the league where no one thought they would be.”
“I understood why it was not a bit gung-ho towards the end, even though part of me during the game thought ‘if they are a bit further ahead in their development, their journey and their experience they’d have gone for it’. They are not.
“Seven weeks ago the manager was getting sacked; the players were getting booted out.
“They were all over the place.”
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