Ruben Amorim will begin his role as Manchester United’s new manager in a weeks’ time and Gary Neville has already given the Sporting Lisbon boss some tactical advice.
Current Sporting Lisbon boss Amorim will begin his new role next Monday, having been appointed just four days after the club sacked Erik ten Hag. Amorin, 39, will be tasked with turning United’s rudderless season around, having gotten off to their worst start in Premier League history – 12 points from 10 games.
Sunday’s uninspiring 1-1 draw with Chelsea under caretaker manager Ruud van Nistelrooy exposed a number of the Red Devils’ lingering issues, and former United captain Neville believes that there are three metrics which Amorim needs to improve to stop his new side playing like ‘underdogs’.
“If you want to push your defence up the pitch, which is what I think every team looks to do nowadays, Amorim has got to start with that because Manchester United quite often have to travel 70, 80 yards to score a goal because they’re so deep and they play like the underdog in games.
“The other metric was possession one in the final third. So possession won high up the pitch: first was Manchester City, second was Tottenham, third was Arsenal and fourth was Liverpool. Manchester United are ninth.
“The final one I asked for was the highest turnovers. City, Tottenham, Liverpool and Arsenal made up the top four while Manchester United were ninth. These three things are critical to performance levels.
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