Ruud van Nistelrooy disagrees with Gary Neville over Man Utd assessment

Former Manchester United striker and interim brag Ruud van Nistelrooy returns to Old Trafford connected Friday nighttime looking to crook astir his fortunes successful complaint of Leicester City

Ruud van Nistelrooy does not wholly hold with erstwhile team-mate Gary Neville's appraisal of Manchester United.

The Leicester City brag takes his squad to Old Trafford connected Friday nighttime successful hunt of immoderate FA Cup respite aft winning conscionable 1 of their past 10 matches successful the Premier league. Van Nistelrooy, who worked arsenic portion of Erik 10 H ag's coaching unit and past arsenic iterim manager earlier Amorim was appointed, believes his erstwhile squad stay a hard imaginable for his Foxes side.

United person seen promising victories against Arsenal and Manchester City, combined with location struggles against the likes of Crystal Palace and Brighton. With the Red Devils lone 13th successful the table, Neville has not been reassured by Amorim's interaction connected the team.

When Neville's comments suggesting United's signifier volition lone marque it much hard for Amorim to enactment with condemnation were enactment to Van Nistelrooy, the Dutchman admitted helium did not judge successful sequences of results. His absorption is connected tackling a hard absorption contempt the side's momentum.

"I’m truthful blessed that I don’t person to analyse the Manchester United squad astatine the moment. I person capable enactment to bash with my own. I’ll permission that to Ruben.

"Of course, we analyse them arsenic good and spot wherever the possibilities are for america and wherever we person to beryllium careful. I cognize the players, I cognize the squad wrong retired and that’s what my focus. For me, that’s the lone happening I’m doing astatine the moment."

The ex-Netherlands striker added: "We besides person our ain issues, you know?

"It’s up to america to look astatine us. I don’t judge successful sequences of teams. You tin besides triumph a crippled of shot aft you’ve mislaid a couple.

"You tin besides suffer 1 erstwhile you’ve won a lot. Every crippled is simply a new, a caller challenge. Away to Manchester United, being Leicester City, is ever a pugnacious 1 but we privation to correspond ourselves successful the champion mode imaginable and instrumentality it from there."

Neville delivered a damning appraisal of United's advancement nether Amorim. The ex-United skipper is acrophobic the club's defeats volition excavation a spread the 40-year-old caput manager is incapable to clamber retired of.

"I thought it would get amended erstwhile Ruben Amorim came in, the enthusiasm of him and the caller system, the players would bargain into and we’d spot a bounce,’ helium said connected The Gary Neville Podcast.

"But we’ve seen the implicit other and it’s got a batch worse – and that’s surprising. There’s going to beryllium a batch much symptom towards the extremity of the play and it’s going to beryllium damaging – due to the fact that they’re evidently going to instrumentality with Amorim. But the much you lose, the much hard it is for the manager to person the players of his idea.

"In the precise aboriginal days helium said, “I volition not alteration my idea”, and you request the players to bargain into that. If they support losing and they support getting criticised and the spotlight comes connected them much and the fans are leaving unhappy, you cognize it creates a feeling and you can’t support losing."

Neville added: "You conscionable can’t. It volition depress the thoughts of the players to a constituent whereby they’ll commencement to suffer religion successful the thought and it’ll harm you.

"He can’t alteration his attack present due to the fact that he’s died successful the ditch connected it and rightly so. But he’s mislaid much games astatine Manchester United than helium mislaid successful the past 75 astatine Sporting Lisbon which is conscionable perfectly alarming, truthful helium volition not beryllium enjoying this.

‘It can’t support going connected arsenic it is and they someway person to commencement playing amended – due to the fact that astatine this infinitesimal successful clip it’s a precise atrocious concern erstwhile you ticker United play."

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