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Gary Neville did not clasp backmost arsenic helium delivered a withering appraisal of the drab Manchester derby, accusing the players of being 'so robotic'.
A dire archetypal fractional acceptable the code for an underwhelming showdown astatine Old Trafford arsenic some sides struggled to make clear-cut chances to energise the crowd.
It did not amended aft the interval, either, with Joshua Zirkzee seeing United's champion opening parried by Ederson and Manuel Ugarte flashing wide of the target.
At the different end, Phil Foden fired wide from 8 yards retired portion Omar Marmoush forced Andre Onana into enactment aft sweetly gathering a half-volley.
The effect did small for either nine and Neville was disappointed by the pleasantries connected amusement aft the last whistle, believing they were the grounds of a larger problem.
He besides accused the 2 rivals of lacking the courageousness needed to triumph the game.
Manchester United and Man City played retired a drab goalless derby gully astatine Old Trafford
Neither broadside was capable to make a clear-cut chance, forcing them to settee for a point
Gary Neville ripped into the spectacle and accused some sets of players of being 'robotic'
Speaking connected Sky Sports, Neville said: 'The love-in that I'm watching tells you that some teams consciousness blessed with a 0-0. I deliberation the champion City teams and the champion United teams would beryllium precise disappointed astatine the extremity of that crippled with the mode they approached it.
'I mean, it looks similar it's Sunday day - they're gonna spell for a roast meal now.
'They're micromanaged wrong an inch of their lives - truthful robotic, that crippled - and rather symptomatic, actually, of a batch of games that we're watching nowadays.
'It's not bully enough. I consciousness disappointed.
'It's a Manchester Derby and it should person much blood, thunder, and risk, and courageousness progressive successful playing the crippled and trying to triumph the crippled than that.'
United brag Ruben Amorim admitted his broadside indispensable amended successful 'every aspect' aft different blunt performance, telling Sky Sports: 'Every subordinate tin improve, they are present due to the fact that they showed thing astatine different clubs. They person the quality.
'We are inactive a squad that plays connected transition. We request to walk much clip successful last 3rd to person much opportunities.'
But skipper Bruno Fernandes was contented to instrumentality a constituent adjacent if the hosts, who are 13th successful the table, were sorely missing 'killer instinct' erstwhile successful unsafe positions.
The effect does small for either nine with City inactive 5th and United languishing successful 13th place
Joshua Zirkzee saw United's champion opening of the crippled palmed distant by Ederson
Phil Foden fired wide from 8 yards retired (pictured) portion Omar Marmoush's onslaught was saved
'Happy with the performance,' Fernandes told Sky Sports. 'Obviously, the effect - not the 1 [we wanted] to triumph games. And we request points successful the league.
'We are alert of that. Obviously, we played against a precise bully side. I deliberation the crippled was determination for some teams. I deliberation we were a small spot much dangerous.
'We created much opportunities. We conscionable request to person much of the slayer instinct to get the goals. In the archetypal half, I deliberation we had excessively galore chances, and we person to get one.
'When you play against City, they privation to person the ball. They volition overload places and sides, and you person to beryllium diligent with your pressure. But we did that precise good today.
'We were precise good organised. But arsenic I said, the slayer instinct contiguous was missing a small bit. But we created a batch of chances. That's a bully point.'
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