Gary Neville has sent a stark warning to Erik ten Hag ahead of Sunday’s game against Liverpool (Picture: Sky Sports)
Gary Neville fears Manchester United will get ‘killed’ by Liverpool unless Erik ten Hag picks a more defensive line-up at Anfield this afternoon.
The Red Devils were thrashed 7-0 in the corresponding fixture last season and arrive at the home of their fiercest foes ravaged by injury and licking their wounds following their midweek Champions League exit.
Already without suspended skipper Bruno Fernandes, Ten Hag will also have to make do without Harry Maguire after he picked up an injury in midweek while long-term absentees Mason Mount, Christian Eriksen, Casemiro and Lisandro Martinez remain unavailable.
Ten Hag is yet to mastermind an away win against a big six rival and Neville is concerned his old side will be on the end of another heavy defeat unless their manager can show an element of tactical flexibility.
‘My concern is that Erik ten Hag doesn’t do anything different in these big games away from home,’ Neville told Sky Sports.
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‘He’s continued to play that same type of football. Today, if he sends them out in the same style, same way of playing, man to man marking, opening up the midfield they’ll get killed.
‘He’s got a big responsibility to put them out there today in a shape that gives them a chance.
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‘That to me if a 4-5-1 or a 5-4-1 that’s very solid. I think Mourinho’s done that here, Van Gaal had a brilliant performance here that was very different here when he controlled possession.
‘Ole won big games at times but Ten Hag has not demonstrated that he will change in any single game to try and cover up the weaknesses and vulnerabilities that they have.
‘He has to do something different here today.’
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