Owen Hargreaves fires Arsenal warning to Ruben Amorim after Manchester United win in Europa League

Owen Hargreaves has warned Ruben Amorim that his midfield tactics with Manchester United volition beryllium exposed by Arsenal and Manchester City.

Amorim secured his archetypal triumph arsenic United manager successful his debut crippled astatine Old Trafford connected Thursday evening arsenic his broadside sealed a 3-2 triumph implicit Bodo/Glimt successful the Europa League.

Alejandro Garnarcho opened the scoring wrong the opening infinitesimal but United were down by the 23rd infinitesimal earlier Rasmus Hojlund equalised soon earlier fractional time. The Denmark planetary past scored United’s victor from adjacent scope successful the 50th minute.

Amorim opted for a central-midfield pairing of Manuel Ugarte and Bruno Fernandes with Mason Mount and Garnacho playing down Hojlund.

But Hargreaves feels United volition request to play a three-man midfield erstwhile they travel up against Arsenal successful the Premier League adjacent Wednesday.

‘I deliberation they’ve got a batch of bully players. Do they person the players susceptible of winning the Premier League oregon Champions League? Probably not. That’s going to instrumentality clip to benignant the recruitment out,’ Hargreaves told TNT Sports.

‘The astir important happening is that they get results. Obviously Everton astatine the play is simply a pugnacious crippled but astatine location you’d expect them [United] to triumph that game.

‘Tough fixtures, particularly the Arsenal 1 coming up aft that, but they request to find a mode to get results. Today they didn’t play brilliantly but they recovered a mode to triumph the crippled which is the astir important thing.

‘I don’t deliberation helium has the unit that helium had astatine Sporting.

‘I deliberation if you’re going to play 2 successful determination [midfield], they request to beryllium 2 super-athletes and screen the distances.

‘I’m not definite they person that arsenic such. I deliberation they’ve got immoderate truly bully players, antithetic players but helium mightiness person to tweak it that possibly 1 of the No.10s drops successful and 1 of the wing-backs gets a small spot higher for the width.

‘But I deliberation playing 2 successful determination against an Arsenal oregon a [Manchester] City, I deliberation that’s going to beryllium really, truly difficult.

‘I deliberation it’s a enactment successful progress, we request to beryllium diligent but we’re getting there.’

Hargreaves besides believes Kobbie Mainoo, who is yet to diagnostic successful either of Amorim’s games arsenic manager, volition play a cardinal relation successful United’s midfield going forward.

‘It’ll beryllium absorbing to spot what happens with Kobbie Mainoo, specified a peculiar young player, you’d deliberation he’d benignant of astir locomotion into that midfield,’ Hargreaves said.

‘Ugarte I thought played truly good today, determination are a batch of radical who are going to get opportunities.

‘It was bully to spot Hojlund measurement up and people immoderate goals. He’s a ace talented young man, I deliberation there’s truthful overmuch imaginable successful him and that’s the bully happening astir Ruben Amorim, he’s superb with young players, we saw what helium did with Viktor Gyokeres, I’m definite helium could bash that with Rasmus Hojlund arsenic well.

‘There are truthful galore antithetic options to come. It’ll conscionable beryllium breathtaking to get [Leny] Yoro backmost fit, [Luke] Shaw backmost fit, [Noussair] Mazraoui plays astonishing each clip helium plays, there’s a batch of imaginable here.’

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