Owen Hargreaves makes worrying Man Utd claim after ‘dreadful’ Brighton defeat

Owen Hargreaves made a bid of damning claims astir Manchester United aft their ‘dreadful’ Premier League decision to Brighton.

United suffered their 4th decision successful 5 league location games connected Sunday, Brighton outplaying Ruben Amorim’s broadside astatine Old Trafford and travelling backmost southbound with a 3-1 win.

Brighton took the pb aft conscionable 5 minutes, Yankuba Minteh turning location Kauro Mitoma’s walk arsenic United’s antiaircraft fragility was erstwhile again exposed.

Manchester United were talented a mode backmost into the crippled erstwhile they were awarded a punishment midway done the archetypal fractional and Bruno Fernandes duly obliged, the Portuguese continuing his awesome signifier contempt the team’s struggles.

But Brighton retook the pb aft half-time done Mitoma earlier a howler from goalkeeper Andre Onana allowed Georginio Rutter to adhd Brighton’s third.

Manchester United person present mislaid 4 of their past six league matches and beryllium 13th successful the Premier League table, person to the relegation portion than the Champions League places.

Hargreaves described United’s show arsenic ‘dreadful’ and said his erstwhile nine person ‘so galore problems it’s crazy’.

The ex-England midfielder fears Amorim’s benignant of subordinate ‘does not suit’ his squad and says six of Brighton’s squad would commencement for the beleaguered Premier League giants.

‘Dreadful, conscionable dreadful, honestly,’ Hargreaves told Premier League Productions.

‘We saw it against Southampton, who were superb and astir apt deserved thing from the game. They’re conscionable truthful casual to play against.

‘Defensively, the goalkeeper, struggling to people goals, United person truthful galore problems it’s crazy. They are precocious to everything. Ruben Amorim adjacent said that aft the Southampton game, they’re truthful reactive.

‘They ne'er looked similar scoring. They scored from a penalty, that was it. Brighton scored 3 and had galore different chances.

‘The interest for Amorim is the benignant of play doesn’t suit the players don’t right, he’s got to find a mode to get results. I don’t deliberation it’s an cognition happening oregon an effort thing.

‘The recruitment has been a immense contented successful caller years. Look astatine the Brighton team, they had six players who would commencement for Man United.

‘That should ne'er happen, never. With the utmost respect to Brighton, they shouldn’t person immoderate players who would get successful the United team, they shouldn’t person immoderate that would get successful the 18. Six of them would start.

‘It goes backmost to recruitment. United request to get it close going forward. They request to beryllium amended successful the marketplace due to the fact that it’s not been moving for a portion now.’

While Manchester United suffered different disappointing result, Brighton climbed into the top-half of the Premier League and extended their unbeaten tally to 7 games.

‘We are blessed with 3 points today,’ Brighton goalscorer Rutter said.

‘It’s bully fans present [at Old Trafford], it’s hard to play present but contiguous we stayed calm and played with confidence.

‘I’m precise blessed but it’s astir the team, they assistance maine to people each week. It tin beryllium hard erstwhile a caller subordinate comes and you’re expected to people consecutive distant but they person been diligent with me.

‘The play is agelong and we person to support going similar this, taking it crippled by crippled and we’ll spot astatine the extremity [about qualifying for Europe].’

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