Gary Neville blasts Man Utd lack of drive against Everton asking where was the 'Alamo'

Gary Neville says Manchester United needed to charge forward like the “Alamo” once Everton were down to ten men and was left shocked at the way they remained defensive.

“You've got to adapt to the circumstances within the game,” he said. “It's pretty damn obvious isn't it, how you play with ten men. You shift the ball a bit, well you shift the ball quicker, you shift it from side to side, you switch play, you stretch the pitch and make it as big as possible and this pitch always feels bigger at Old Trafford.”

United had a man extra for most of the game against Everton on Monday night but still conceded and went on to lose 1-0.

He said United “kept at times three and four and five players” back with Ruben Amorim not changing his system.

“The three at the back had to form differently, they had to change. I know that Ruben Amorim will never change his three at the back system, I get it, but I'm sorry, Luke Shaw has to go for and play like a left winger, he has to,” he told The Gary Neville podcast.

He continued: “Casemiro and Bruno Fernandez move forward make sure you don't play again too deep and the rest of the players, make sure you try and create some form of overload.

“I played here with 10 men a lot of times and quite simply you would never see me back I'd be literally as wide as possible with either David Beckham or Antonio Valencia or Cristiano Ronaldo on that right hand side and Ryan Giggs and Denis Irwin or Patrice Evra would be as wide as possible on this side.

“You'd leave basically Scholes in there literally switching play which Bruno Fernandez can do and you'd have the four in the midfield of Everton charging from side to side and eventually you work them you fatigue their legs.

“You get bodies in the box, United left one man up front all night, they had to have two up.”

And he said that United had to flood the box to stretch the defence and create cracks. Comparing it to when he played he said: "Let's pretend that's (Andy) Cole and (Dwight) York. They're not going to beat two giant centre-halves in the air, but they can occupy the centre-backs, which means that someone else can maybe make a run-in to get the goal.

"Casemiro or whoever, and I just thought United was so pedestrian and so negative having gone to 10 men. You've got a flood forward, you've got the Alamo when you're playing against 10 men and they still kept this three at the back.”