Man Utd players don’t trust Ruben Amorim’s tactics or each other – the utter humiliation by Brighton proved it 

MANCHESTER UNITED deed a caller stone bottommost connected Sunday arsenic Ruben Amorim labelled this existent squad the worst successful the club’s history.

A harrowing, humiliating 3-1 location decision astatine the hands of Brighton sees the Red Devils slumped down successful 13th successful the Premier League table.

And this is besides the worst location commencement to a run for much than 130 YEARS. 

But precisely what went incorrect against the Seagulls arsenic United suffered their tenth league defeat of the season?

SunSport’s tactical guru Dean Scoggins broke down the crippled successful the latest occurrence of Tactics Exposed… 

1. DE LIGT AND YORO WEL BEATEN

At 34 years old, United could bash with Danny Welbeck backmost astatine Old Trafford. How galore strikers implicit a accordant play person done a bully a occupation arsenic him since helium near successful 2014?

It was a large show up beforehand but it was besides the mode helium and Joao Pedro perfectly led Matthijs de Ligt and Leny Yoro connected a merry dance.

This is not the archetypal clip we've talked astir defenders getting dragged retired by a striker connected a enactment but this is the longest enactment I've ever seen.

It was perfectly ludicrous wherever they were going.

Because some strikers dropped in, some defenders conscionable decided to spell with them which past near abstraction for the truly unsafe wingers Yankuba Minteh and Kaoru Mitoma to tally into. 

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As soon arsenic you’ve got those 2 moving successful behind, past bully luck. 

It was 4-4-2 demolishing 3-4-3. 

It happened each day, not conscionable once. 

Harry Maguire indispensable person been perfectly doing his nut, ‘Just enactment with me.’

We’ve talked antecedently astir the positives of a centre-back coming retired of the enactment to conscionable the shot but that's erstwhile you're defending connected the borderline of the container and you spell 3 oregon 4 yards to nick it erstwhile you've got screen down you, not erstwhile you've got 50 yards of transportation down you.

The backline was not adjacent a zigzag - that would beryllium a compliment - it was conscionable this higgledy-piggledy line. De Ligt and Yoro, Yoro particularly, didn't cognize whether to instrumentality oregon twist.

He looked confused and arsenic though the connection of what they’re doing hasn’t got through.

For the archetypal goal, De Ligt, wherever are you going? If helium sits, it’s a backmost pedal and header oregon a crook and hook wide implicit his shoulder. It was horrible. 

2. WING-BACKS PINNED BACK

But we besides person to springiness tremendous recognition to Brighton and Fabian Hurzeler. 

It truly was virtually an old-school 4-4-2, albeit with the centre-backs dropping truthful that the wingers could spell on.

The United wing-backs don't spot the centre-backs due to the fact that they couldn’t spend to propulsion connected successful lawsuit they mislaid possession arsenic De Ligt and Yoro could not screen arsenic they were occupied by the strikers.

So Harry Maguire was benignant of similar not doing thing - and that's not a disapproval of Maguire - due to the fact that determination was nary passing connected of players to prime up.

Consistently passim the game, the wing-backs were deeper than the 3 centre-backs which is mad. 

Maybe Maguire is being told not to permission that cardinal quadrate and not dragged retired of presumption whatsoever - but they’ve got to beryllium much intelligent. 

There are 2 solutions.

Either the wing-backs are the ones who really propulsion connected a small spot and invert to screen the abstraction that those strikers are dropping into.

The different enactment is Manuel Ugarte and Kobbie Mainoo divided retired and walk the strikers connected to them truthful the defenders tin prime up the wingers flying forward. 

It wasn't pretty, they were each implicit the place, and they didn't lick it astatine half-time due to the fact that it kept happening again successful the 2nd half.

3. I’M A BALEBA

Yes helium gave distant the punishment for United aft Joshua Zirkzee did precise good with his pressing but that was his lone mistake due to the fact that Carlos Baleba was excellent. 

He was the accordant one, the azygous pivot who Brighton played off. 

With the ball, helium tin driblet successful betwixt the 2 centre-backs past without it, helium sat successful beforehand and conscionable mopped everything up. 

It was 2v1 - Ugarte and Mainoo against Baleba - but helium bossed it. 

What I liked astir was helium knew erstwhile to spell with that nonstop shot to the wingers and erstwhile to enactment his ft connected the ball. 

It was a top-class show and however Manchester United fans privation helium was successful a reddish shirt.

Would helium marque them better? Yes, I deliberation he’s amended than Ugarte but possibly not rather arsenic method a footballer arsenic Mainoo but has different things. 

Plus United haven’t got galore players successful that presumption that Amorim trusts. 

Brighton person got a large occupation keeping clasp of him.

4. ONANA, OH-NO-NO!

The horrible, horrible mistake was woeful and let’s not hide astatine that signifier United were inactive successful the game.

The set-up looks bully with 1 centre-back going into midfield with 1 of the 2 midfielders, usually Ugarte, portion the different 2 centre-backs divided and Mainoo tin articulation Bruno Fernandes successful the No10s with the wing-backs precocious and the centre forward.

They get into a bully position, Onana was brought successful due to the fact that helium is bully with his feet, but helium doesn’t play it and I deliberation it’s due to the fact that helium doesn’t spot the centre-backs to play the walk back.

He looks a spot static and doesn’t look to privation to play those ten-yard passes to person it backmost to gully the absorption retired of position. 

It's similar he's a spot spooked by the full script and feels similar the ball-playing goalkeeper has been stifled by the mode that they privation to play out. 

Maybe it's clip for Altay Bayindir to person a spell due to the fact that they’ve got to benignant it retired very, precise quickly.

United person done good erstwhile they tin beryllium a debased block, they’ve done good against teams with a precise debased artifact but person struggled against a mid-block. 

5. MISSING IN ACTION

There's a very, precise high-end nerdy statistic astir subordinate positions nether definite managers which is efficaciously worked retired by if a subordinate is simply a striker, wherever helium goes different than that striker presumption - oregon however overmuch helium deviates from his position.

Amorim’s teams - particularly Sporting - are precise focused and bash not deviate overmuch from a rigid operation of what helium wants.

It is antithetic from mean positions but is much akin to vigor maps and however concentrated they are.

This Manchester United squad are each implicit the place. 

There was a infinitesimal against Southampton wherever determination were 7 players successful changeable and 5 of them are retired of position.

It's conscionable chaotic that they're that acold retired of presumption and that comes from earlier connected successful a determination wherever you've been sucked out.

Mainoo is not unfit oregon dilatory but sometimes makes these half-sprints, these jogs out, to the No10 position, doesn’t get determination and is played around, leaving Ugarte connected his ain and helium presses and the shot goes astir him excessively past centre-backs are sucked out. 

They are conscionable not successful their positions astatine all. 

It conscionable wasn't precise bully and it looks like, from the shape, that they aren't trying precise hard. 

I deliberation they are trying hard. They're conscionable getting sucked retired of positions that they shouldn't beryllium in.

One mistake breeds the 2nd one, past the dominoes spell and past you've got 5 radical retired of 7 retired of position.

The solution could beryllium arsenic elemental arsenic what a manager does with an Under-11s, Under-12s squad and puts the cones retired connected the transportation and says, ‘You don't permission your square.’