Dimitar Berbatov claims one Man Utd player is ‘wasting his energy’ at the club, ‘He should focus on…’

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Manchester United’s post-international break campaign continues to stutter domestically as the Manchester derby ended in a goalless whimper.

The Nottingham Forest loss theme was repeated at Old Trafford as Man Utd created chances and looked threatening without ever taking any.

Bruno Fernandes shone again but the team around him continues to frustrate endlessly, and Dimitar Berbatov was particularly critical of one Man Utd star after the game.

“Wasting his energy” claim was made, while Paul Scholes agreed and said he looked “flat and dead”.

Dimitar Berbatov critical of Rasmus Hojlund

The hope was that Rasmus Hojlund had turned a corner when he scored against Leicester before the break, then scored again for Denmark.

However, that mini-spell of two games looks increasingly like a false dawn as Hojlund is reverting to form, and a bad one at that.

Against Man City, the Danish striker started well as his flick almost put Garnacho through on goal, but it was all downhill from there.

Unforced errors and losing duels made it a night for forget for the player and a man who knows a thing or two about good strikers, Berbatov, gave him sage advice after the game.

Berbatov said of Hojlund: “He’s wasting energy on places he shouldn’t be. He is trying to help the team, and prove himself by running everywhere but he should focus on scoring instead.

“Because then when the ball comes, the body and brain connection isn’t there in dangerous areas. The service he’s getting isn’t good enough either.”

Paul Scholes agrees with Berbatov

Scholes has repeatedly been critical of Hojlund, declaring that he’ll never be a clinical goalscorer and he latched onto Berbatov’s point here.

Scholes added that Hojlund looked flat and dead when the ball came to him because he’d already been “running here and there”.

He said: “He’s running there, running here, and when the ball comes on to him, he’s flat, dead. You can’t coach forwards after a certain age.”

Amorim has stressed that as the team starts to create more and looks confident, so will the striker, but the stark contrast in performance of even Chido Obi, let alone Joshua Zirkzee, doesn’t bode well for Hojlund.

Service is an issue but it’s no longer looking like the biggest one because his competitors are doing much more with less.

Taking Berbatov’s advice going forward should be a start.