Gary Neville, former Manchester United stalwart and Sky Sports pundit, didn’t hold back after the 0-0 draw between his old club and Manchester City at Old Trafford on Sunday. He was scathing of the ‘robotic’ play, calling it a ‘disease’ in the game. United had just two shots on target the whole game, while City too barely tested Andre Onana over the 90 minutes.
“It’s a Manchester derby,” said Neville in a full-blooded rant after the game. “It should have more blood, thunder, risk, and courage involved in playing the game… It looks like it’s Sunday afternoon and they’re going to go for a roast dinner together now.
“I get what he [Ruben Amorim, United manager] is saying about it being that point in the season, with City and United being in a difficult moment. But this robotic nature of not leaving our positions, being micro-managed within an inch of our lives, not having any freedom to take a risk to go and try and win a football match is becoming an illness in the game, it’s becoming a disease in the game.”
“Gary Neville is critical about everything.” – Ruben Amorim
Amorim’s response after the draw which kept United in 13th place, 14 points adrift of City in fifth, was equally sarcastic. “I understand everything,” he said. “Gary Neville is critical about everything. I understand that part.
“I understand we are, in the moment, doing the worst season in history. Manchester City won everything in the past but this season are struggling. We are not in the best moments to give the best spectacle to every fan. When we are not fighting for the big things, of course it’s different.”
Guardiola, whose side – champions the past four seasons – will slip out of the top five if Newcastle United win at Leicester City on Monday night, was more subdued in his reaction. “You see the numbers of players who have been at the top for four, five, six years,” he said. “This year, we drop. It’s not one, it’s all of them – that’s why we are struggling to win games.”
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