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17th October 2021
02:56pm BST

"With the Man United of the past, you know they had wingers, getting strikers into the box, midfielders running into the box also. "But now, it looks like they're trying to keep everybody happy [in terms of] players. Individually, you've seen what they've got - [Cristiano] Ronaldo, [Paul] Pogba, [Bruno] Fernandes, these players should be shining. "It's an array of talent, but they don't know what they are doing with the talent."https://twitter.com/BBCMOTD/status/1449631267402616833 Meanwhile, Richards' fellow co-host, Alan Shearer, also highlighted United's failure to bring in a midfielder as a major downfall in their season so far. Shearer said: 'That was Man United's problem last season, they didn't invest in that position. It's the same again [this season].
"There's no-one in there to really press and take control from the front. You can't do that in the Premier League.
"They will always score, Man United, because of the brilliance they have going forward. But you cannot press if you haven't got that aggression.
"If you don't know what to do, then you've got to sit back and be compact as a team. The team that I saw (on Saturday) didn't know whether to go or whether to sit. When they did go, it was half-hearted and not as a team."
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