Roy Keane and Gary Neville involved in heated Man United argument after Liverpool defeat

Roy Keane and Gary Neville involved in heated Man United argument after Liverpool defeat

Former Manchester United captains Roy Keane and Gary Neville were drawn into a heated argument over the full-backs’ positions in possession following the heavy 3-0 loss to Liverpool.

Both Keane and Neville watched on in anguish as United were torn to bits by their opponents in the first half at Old Trafford. Casemiro was at fault for both goals in the opening 45 minutes, as he first gave the ball away easily and then was dispossessed for Luis Diaz’s brace.

Mohamed Salah added a third ten minutes after the restart, which ended the game as a contest and led to a mass inquest at full-time on the Sky Sports panel. When discussing United’s failings, though, Keane and Neville had differing ideas of what went wrong.

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Neville began: “This isn’t high pressing or brilliant defensive work, United’s play in those deep areas was absolutely terrible.” “It’s when they lose it with the full-back, the shape is all wrong,” Keane added.

When host Dave Jones asked Neville if he agreed with his former teammate, he replied: “No, it’s not. They’re individual errors that are in terrible areas.

“When we played at United, Dennis Irwin and I would go forward and leave the centre-backs with Roy Keane or Paul Scholes. If they give the ball away, we’d be in trouble, but they didn’t do it often.”

“They didn’t do it that high, Gary,” Keane argued. “They wouldn’t be that high, not the two of you.

“At this level, you expect to do better but it shouldn’t be so simple that one mistake, one pass and someone is in on goal, it shouldn’t be as simple as that. But it is.

“We’ve seen it a few weeks ago, this one – [Kobbie] Mainoo has to do better. He’s had a good few months but look at this, I don’t think that should happen.

“The two full-backs are coming back into the picture, if you see your midfield on it you should fear the worst.” Neville disagreed firing back: “Roy, I’m not sure. As the ball used to travel in, I’d fly forward.”

Disgruntled, Keane said: ‘No, no, no,” before interrupting Neville with: “Absolutely not. Not when he’s got his back to play, if I’m facing up the pitch, I’d expect you to be running but not when he’s not in proper control of that.

“Unless you see your mate in control of that. As a defender, expect the worst, expect your mate to lose it.

“They’re on the outside looking in, they should be back inside, then if you see your mate in a good position you go: ‘I can run onto it’. That’s what I think.”

Ultimately the debate does little to change the mood around United which is particularly low after the loss to Liverpool. The Reds head into the international break with two defeats from three matches and will return to competitive action on Saturday, September 14 when they travel to Southampton.

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