Newcastle took the lead as early as the seventh minute, but substitute Edinson Cavani secured a point for Manchester United with his equalizer a bit into the second half. Overall, United accounted for a poor performance, and several players clearly showed their frustration over the hacking game during the match.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Bruno Fernandes were two of the players whose disappointment was strongest. After the match, former United player Gary Neville criticized the players’ body language.
– They whine at each other all the time! It’s a loud whine! Look at them on the pitch, seriously. Arms in the air, complaining about everything! Honestly, the effort in the first half was shocking, says Neville in the Sky Sports studio according to the Daily Mirror.
– The players got their former coach fired (Ole Gunnar Solskjær). Ralf Rangnick will not be fired, he has only had them for a couple of weeks. But the players will get many coaches fired if they continue like this.
Gary Neville believes that Ralf Rangnick needs to have time to influence the players and change their behavior on the pitch.
– You should not exaggerate. They have not played a match in 16 days, have a new coach and the players are trying to get used to a new game system. But the attitude and the basics… Something is not right, he says according to the Daily Mirror.
– It was a very bad performance. They did not do a single right as a team, and not a single player can go into the locker room and say they did their job or even did themselves justice. There is nothing positive to take with you. Nothing.
Next up for Manchester United awaits a home game against Burnley on Thursday, 30 December.
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