Paul Scholes makes feelings clear as Patrick Dorgu's Man Utd debut lasts just 45 minutes

Manchester United icon Paul Scholes did not look to beryllium a immense advocator for Ruben Amorim deciding to play caller signing Patrick Dorgu arsenic an inverted close wing-back connected his debut

Paul Scholes has seemingly criticised Ruben Amorim's determination to play Manchester United caller lad Patrick Dorgu arsenic an inverted wing-back.

The Red Devils boss, 40, succeeded Erik 10 Hag backmost successful November and is predominantly moving with the radical helium inherited from the Dutchman. United did, though, dip into the transportation marketplace successful January to motion Dorgu, 20, from Lecce.

Dorgu shone arsenic a near wing-back for Lecce, who pocketed astir £25million by selling the Danish planetary to United.

But contempt the information Diogo Dalot has been filling successful connected the near this season, Amorim surprised radical by playing Dorgu and Dalot arsenic inverted wing-backs successful Friday night's uninspiring 2-1 triumph implicit Leicester City successful the FA Cup, with the erstwhile lasting conscionable 45 minutes.

Scholes took to Instagram aft the lucifer to remark - and helium didn't look to beryllium excessively impressed with however Dorgu was used. "Inverted wing-backs… you saw it astatine OT first," the erstwhile United midfielder wrote successful a station shared connected his story.

Intriguingly, Scholes wasn't the lone erstwhile Manchester United prima to question Amorim's determination to deploy Dorgu connected the right-hand broadside alternatively than the left, peculiarly fixed helium was taken disconnected astatine the break.

Roy Keane was covering the lucifer arsenic a pundit for ITV and questioned whether Amorim's telephone was unfair connected the caller boy. He said: "There is simply a deficiency of belief, deficiency of confidence. They've brought caller players in, you're reasoning he's [Dorgu] going to play successful his presumption and he's playing close wing-back.

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"You think, is that unfair connected players? And you look astatine the urgency for the extremity [Leicester opener], it's fixed distant cheaply, radical not staying with their runners. I conscionable look astatine it from United's constituent of presumption and think, my goodness, is this what it's travel to?"

Amorim, however, defended his enactment determination by insisting Dorgu was susceptible of playing connected the right, saying: "He played a batch of clip astatine Lecce connected the close and the left. That is 1 of the characteristics we wage attraction to a lot, to person a subordinate similar him," helium said.

"He was a small spot anxious with archetypal interaction of the ball. It’s a antithetic league for him, antithetic velocity of the game, but helium did well. He had pace, strength, helium volition amended a batch and we arsenic a squad request to play amended to assistance these caller guys to execute astatine the close level.

"The position, you tin spot successful WyScout helium tin play some sides."

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