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Gary Neville 'wouldn't have liked playing in Ruben Amorim's system' as Man Utd legend questions head coach's failing tactics

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Gary Neville "wouldn't have liked playing in Ruben Amorim's system", according to Manchester United legend Teddy Sheringham.

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  • Sheringham criticises Amorim's system 
  • Believes Neville would have hated playing in it
  • Claims playing at wing-back is the 'graveyard shift'
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  • WHAT HAPPENED?

    Sheringham has criticised Amorim's system, in which he employs wing-backs to both provide width and attacking support. However, the former United striker, who won the treble in 1999, believes his former team-mate Neville would have hated the system, because it "confuses" defenders.

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    THE BIGGER PICTURE

    Neville clocked over 400 appearances for United, and is perhaps the greatest right-back in Premier League history. Nevertheless, Sheringham believes even he would have struggled to prove his worth in Amorim's system, as he believes playing at wing-back for the Portuguese is akin to working the "graveyard shift". 

  • WHAT SHERINGHAM SAID

    Sheringham told Snabbare: "That wing-back role for anyone, you have to be a special kind of player. I'll go back to my career and you had Matthew Taylor and Paul Smith. They played that role quite well as a wingback. He had energy. 

    "So many different players have tried to play there and find themselves getting caught out. Gary Neville wouldn't have liked to play that role. I can't imagine Luke Shaw wanting to play that position. Left-backs are left-backs and right-backs are right-backs. To ask him to play a little bit further forward, you know, it confuses them. 

    "What am I, an attacker? Am I a defender? Should I be going? Should I be staying? It takes an unusual player to play that role to be able to do it efficiently. One minute you're up, next minute you're back, and then you're in the wrong position. 

    "I call it the graveyard shift out there. It takes a certain type to play it and I wouldn't really want to put Amad in that position to do that."

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    WHAT NEXT?

    United play Grimsby Town in the EFL Cup this week before they return to Premier League action against Burnley this weekend. 

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