Man United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer chose to play counter-attacking football vs Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday and this tactics almost brought back all three points.
Despite leading the match 1-0, Man United had to settle for a draw but after the match a number of fans and pundits have come out to praise Solskjaer for his good decision making both before and during the match.
And while former teammate, Phil Neville has praised the Man United boss but he has also pointed out one major mistake which the Norwegian made on Sunday.
‘The momentum did change. I thought the substitutions of [Alex] Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lallana and [Naby] Keita just gave them a bit of impetus in terms of energy and United didn’t make the substitutions,’ Neville told Optus Sport[as reported by MEN].
‘They brought Martial on… I thought maybe just five or ten minutes too late to change the momentum. You could see that United were camped in.
‘I agree with Ryan… I don’t know what Rojo was doing for the goal. He had no need to go ahead of the other centre-back, he stays in his slot and he picks up Lallana.
‘But I thought it was an outstanding performance from United. Full of energy, they played a more direct style and at the end, the fans were dead because of the effort the players put in.
‘They didn’t get their just rewards.’
‘Tactically, Ole got it really spot on today. Five at the back, they defended the middle of the pitch really well, the three centre-backs, in particular, defended the goal really well, every cross that came in from wide areas they were set.
‘Just that cross at the end when it gets fired across the box. Rojo just lost a little bit of concentration and it got punished.
‘Liverpool did finish really strong and United will feel like that’s two points dropped.’
