Gary Neville has cast doubt on Ruben Amorim's faith in his Manchester United squad following the manager's habit of constant team rotations. The Reds faced a bewildering 3-2 loss to Nottingham Forest in Saturday's encounter, with Amorim's bewildering substitutions being a focal point.
Forest seized control early on through Nikola Milenkovic's goal, with Rasmus Hojlund levelling soon after. Still, hits by Chris Wood and Morgan Gibbs-White rendered Bruno Fernandes' strike nothing but a consolation.
Analysing the shortfalls of United's game, Neville pointed the finger at Amorim for the disappointing result due to his tactical decisions mid-game. Discussing the match on NBC Sports, the Old Trafford icon exclaimed: "When you keep changing players, when you keep changing your back three, when you take five players off, you're basically saying to all of them effectively - because they've been left out of the starting XI - you don't trust them.
"And Ten Hag kept doing that a few weeks ago where he kept changing the back players, changing the midfield. All of a sudden, you've got a completely different system, a completely different set of players on the pitch at the end of the game and you can never get stability or consistency.
"Just leave the players on. They actually weren't playing that bad in the first-half. Obviously they were undermined by the set pieces, in terms of the corners, but the football generally wasn't that bad.
"Then you allow two mistakes were made after half-time after the first ten minutes to undermine you and then basically you make changes and all of a sudden everything falls to pieces and it looked really scruffy. They looked a mess at the end United with no real shape. I actually think at least in the first-half, they weren't great but at least they had a shape about them.
"I think I said this for Ten Hag for 12 months, pick an XI that you think are the best. We thought that XI today apart from Luke Shaw was close to Manchester United 's best XI you can get."
Neville also criticised Amorim's constant team changes and the players' lack of effort. "No good team is ever a good team without hard work," he stated.
"Manchester United are 13th in the league and their running stats, their distance covered is 16th in the league. You don't deserve anything if you're being outrun every single week."