Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has come under scrutiny and criticism following Manchester United’s struggles for goals at the moment.
Gary Neville has warned Solskjaer about taking Manchester United into the same ‘boring’ path that Jose Mourinho and Louis van Gaal once took.
The Norwegian manager received praise for improving the United squad this season. At one point, the Red Devils were firmly in the title race.
However, all of that good work seems to have gone down the drain. United have recorded only two wins from their last eight games across all competitions.
A more worrisome concern is the fact that their last three outings have ended in goalless stalemates. Solskjaer himself admitted his worry about the situation after the Crystal Palace game.
The last time United struggled this way in front of goal goes all the way back to the Van Gaal era.
Club legend Gary Neville fears a decline in the club’s form and says Solskjaer is starting to repeat bad habits of previous coaching regimes.
“Manchester United have got to find something from somewhere,” Neville said to Sky Sports.
“There was no urgency at the end of the game. You expected United to be throwing everything at it. You expected maybe some of the young lads to come on and do something to try and win the game, take a chance, take a risk, but there was almost a fear that maybe Crystal Palace would go and counter-attack.”
“It wasn’t a good night for United. You can’t have too many performances like that.”
“I always said in the past when Louis van Gaal or Jose Mourinho were the manager, you can win, you can lose, you can draw, but you can’t be boring and that was boring, watching that.”
Neville further echoed the comments of Solskjaer who believes his side have not been at their best of late.
“They let games drift for large periods. That’s happened in the big games where there’s been that lack of urgency and belief but now it’s starting to come against the teams at the bottom of the league.”
“They are sleepwalking in games. They are thinking that they are okay, they will get a goal, because many times this season they have played badly in first halves of matches and then gone and won the second half. But now it’s not happening for them.”
“You’ve got to have performances. You will get results sometimes when you play badly, but eventually it will catch you out. You need performances.”
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