Gary Neville blames Man United’s lack of style for Rasmus Hojlund’s problems | OneFootball

Manchester United legend Gary Neville has claimed that he feels sorry for striker Rasmus Hojlund.

The Danish striker has had a perplexing first season in English football.

On the one hand, he has scored 16 goals and is the club’s top goal scorer in all competitions and on the other, he has looked totally lost at times and hardly been able to get a kick in certain matches.

He has finished the season quite strongly, scoring two goals off the bench against Newcastle United and Brighton and Hove Albion in the last week of the season.

Hojlund has also finished the season with a better chance conversion percentage than Manchester City’s fearsome finisher, Erling Haaland.

Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville has already claimed this month that the Danish international can become a very good player but won’t become a great Premier League striker and he has once again commented on the player’s first season in England.

Writing in The Overlap’s newsletter (via The Daily Mail) the former United fullback expressed his sympathies for the problems the striker has faced plying his trade in this particular United team.

“Watching Hojlund, I felt sorry for him,” Neville said. “You talk about the difficulty United have had putting out a consistent back four this season. But it’s the same up front.”

According to Neville, this has meant that there has been no consistent style of football pursued at the club, rendering the striker’s job largely impossible.

“Hojlund doesn’t know what the pattern of play is, whether the wide player is going to go to the line or come inside. You can see he’s making good runs all the time and then the wide man will come back inside and there will be a 15-pass sequence.”

“Another time he’ll drop in and try to join in with that and that will inevitably be the time the wide man decides to get to the line and cross it.”

“Until United can establish a consistent pattern of play, being centre-forward in that team will be an impossible job.”

The Dane has claimed in a recent interview that he feels much more adapted to English football but he has often had to live off scraps and it is a credit to him that he has had the perseverance to be the club’s top scorer in the most challenging of debut seasons.

Want to be the first to hear breaking Man United news? For carefully selected, crucial updates, join our WhatsApp channel: https://bit.ly/United-Breaking-News.