Gary Neville spots worrying Ruben Amorim and Erik ten Hag similarity at Man United
Gary Neville has questioned Ruben Amorim's call to heavily rotate his Manchester United team - comparing it to what his predecessor Erik ten Hag often did.
The former Sporting CP head coach is yet to settle on his best starting line-up having regularly changed his team since arriving at Old Trafford back in November. Amorim's struggles so far at M16 have seen United slip to several alarming defeats, with the Reds looking to avoid a fourth consecutive loss when they host Newcastle on Monday night at Old Trafford.
United have suffered losses to Tottenham, AFC Bournemouth and Wolves since beating rivals Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on December 15. They will now face a Newcastle squad who have won four matches in a row, conceding just one goal during that run.
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And Neville has suggested Amorim might need to settle on a settled starting XI if he's to stop an alarming rot at United. "It was something Erik ten Hag used to do and then even in game, changing up the defence, it seems like, every single match," Neville told Sky Sports.
"There was a game against Nottingham Forest that was in that list and I thought he picked his best team that day I thought; 'Here we go', he's actually going to settle on this XI and then stick with them.
"It was 1-1 at half-time and I thought they'd played some good stuff in the first half. They had two individual errors at the start of the second half. And then he took off two of his back three and took off Bruno Fernandes - and almost threw the baby out with the bathwater a little bit - and it's been a little like that since, whereby he's never settled on a team.
"I am going to ask him that when I speak to him very shortly about the fact that is it now time to create some stability. They've not picked up his idea, but how difficult is it for the players to pick up the idea if they've not got that pattern, if you like, of playing together. So it is something that I think needs to be asked."
