Gary Neville criticises three Manchester United players vs Crystal Palace

Gary Neville believes there was a definite lack of motion from Manchester United’s entrance three of their uninteresting 0-0 draw with Crystal Palace.

United performed out their third goalless attract a row in all competitions and now sit 14 factors behind Manchester Metropolis going into Sunday’s derby on the Etihad.

It was a irritating night for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and his workforce at Selhurst Park however the guests by no means actually appeared like opening the scoring, with Marcus Rashford and Mason Greenwood notably struggling to supply their aspect any attacking impetus.

Talking after the sport on Sky Sports activities, Neville was requested about Bruno Fernandes ‘ efficiency and picked out the dearth of motion in entrance of him as a giant cause for his struggles.

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The ex-United defender mentioned: “He (Fernandes) was sloppy from the primary jiffy. He’s not been at his finest in the previous few weeks, perhaps it’s a suggestion that he’s run himself into the bottom and that might be true.

“However you’ve acquired to have issues taking place in entrance of you as effectively and I assumed Rashford on the left, Greenwood on the fitting and [Edinson] Cavani within the center, all of them stayed of their spots.

“If you watch the actually unbelievable entrance threes – and even this entrance three at instances over the previous few months once they’ve been at their finest – these runs of diagonally working throughout one another, motion, there was no motion tonight, they have been enjoying in straight traces.

“This implies for Bruno Fernandes, these two in midfield – McCarthy and Milivojevic – however mainly these two by no means acquired moved all evening, the entrance gamers by no means moved the defenders.

“Gary Cahill and Kouyate, and Gary Cahill’s not been moved out of his place all evening. I didn’t see Mason Greenwood as soon as make a run in behind him, I didn’t see Marcus Rashford make a run behind.

Manchester United secured a memorable 2-0 derby victory over Man Metropolis on the Etihad Stadium.

Bruno Fernandes and Luke Shaw scored the targets to clinch an surprising, however empathic, victory for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s troops towards the league leaders.

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“There was no motion, no urgency and so they have been static. Bruno Fernandes finally ends up being simply marked and simply picked up. Fred and Matic in midfield – they’re just a little bit comparable by way of they play in a straight line with one another, McTominay runs ahead just a little bit extra, Pogba clearly does transfer off-line.

“They have been too inflexible tonight in that system and it ended up being too predictable. The one actual risk got here at factors when Luke Shaw went ahead and put just a little little bit of power into these overlaps.”