Manchester United welcomed Arsenal to Old Trafford on Sunday with Ruben Amorim facing off against Mikel Arteta once again.
Ruben Amorim was only appointed by Manchester United in November but has now met Mikel Arteta three times.
Arsenal beat United 2-0 in the Premier League as Amorim tasted Premier League defeat for the first time in December.
United knocked Arsenal out of the FA Cup in January though, winning on penalties at the Emirates Stadium.
Amorim would no doubt love a Premier League win over Arteta and Arsenal but Gary Neville doesn’t appear confident.
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Gary Neville shares Manchester United ‘worry’
During Sky Sports punditry duties, Neville joined former United teammate Roy Keane in the United dressing room on Sunday afternoon.
The pair answered questions about United ahead of watching the clash with Arsenal.
Neville admitted that he was worried about the lack of quality in the United squad as he looked around the dressing room.
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Shirts with players’ names were hung up with Neville seemingly unimpressed.
Neville highlighted that United have previously had big-name players who were capable of ‘destroying’ teams.
Neville accepted that the likes of Romelu Lukaku, Paul Pogba, Alexis Sanchez and Angel Di Maria didn’t live up to expectations at Old Trafford but that the current crop of players are ‘nowhere near’ their level of quality.
The former United right back noted that this verdict is not especially kind, but he can’t understand how United have recruited a squad with such limited quality.
“I think there is a bigger worry for me in this dressing room,” said Neville on Sky Sports (09/03, 1:30pm).
“A few years ago, United had a team that Lukaku, Pogba, Alexis Sanchez, Di Maria and I thought they had fantastic talent, they were capable of destroying teams on their day, but my worry with this group of players, as I look around this dressing room, is they are nowhere near the calibre of players that actually have failed Manchester United in the last 10 years.
“I say that with some level of kindness, it’s not the most kind thing to say, but I generally look around this dressing room and I think… how this club has ended up in a position whereby it has recruited, as Ruben Amorim has called it, the worst Manchester United team in history.
“It’s a long way back from that, to a point now where you’ve got a situation whereby they don’t look like they’re better than any other team they play. They don’t look better organised, they don’t look like they’ve got better and personality, but more worryingly, is the actual quality,” he added.
Manchester United lineup v Arsenal
Neville is clearly concerned that United don’t have the quality to go and beat a team like Arsenal.
It’s up to Amorim and co to prove him wrong and the United boss has now named his lineup for the game.
Patrick Dorgu’s suspension means that Noussair Mazraoui and Diogo Dalot ar the wing backs today.
Leny Yoro, Matthijs de Ligt and Victor Lindelof line up as the back three with Harry Maguire unavailable.
Joshua Zirkzee starts up front with Rasmus Hojlund left on the bench as his goal drought goes on.
United have a very youthful bench, which again features Chido Obi as he knocks on the first-team door.
Manchester United starting XI v Arsenal: Onana; Yoro, De Ligt, Lindelof; Mazraoui, Fernandes, Casemiro, Dalot; Garnacho, Eriksen, Zirkzee.
Manchester United substitutes: Harrison, Mee, Amass, Heaven, Collyer, J Fletcher, Moorhouse, Hojlund, Obi