EPL: The game was depressing - Gary Neville fumes after Man Utd, City draw
Manchester United legend Gary Neville has said that the 0-0 draw with Manchester City left him "depressed." Neville was speaking to Sky Sports after the
Manchester United legend Gary Neville has said that the 0-0 draw with Manchester City left him âdepressed.â
Neville was speaking to Sky Sports after the goalless draw at Old Trafford on Sunday.
The former defender was left unimpressed by the ârobotic natureâ of play and the lack of risk-taking to win football matches.
He said: âThis robotic nature of not leaving our positions, of being micromanaged within an inch of our lives, of not having any freedom to take a risk to try and win a football match, itâs becoming an illness in the game, itâs becoming a disease in the game.
âPep Guardiola and his teams over the last 10 years, thatâs what his teams do. But weâre seeing poor imitations of that across the board now. Unitedâs goalkeeper rolling his foot on the ball and waiting for things to happen.
âThatâs not it, thatâs not what this club is, thatâs not what we do here. Liverpool donât do that. Youâve got to be a top team with tempo in your play, rhythm in your play, get the ball moving, shift it quickly.
âThe game today really was quite depressing for me, because I think weâve seen a lot of these types of games.
âAnd the Premier League is about excitement, itâs about thrill, itâs about risk. And there was nothing like that in that game, so thatâs not good enough.â