Rio Ferdinand gives Ruben Amorim three-word solution to Man Utd woes, he disagreed with Gary Neville

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Ruben Amorim’s storm that he warned about is well and truly here, if it wasn’t already, after Manchester United’s 0-1 loss to Spurs.

The result leaves Man Utd 15th in the table and with fixtures at Everton followed by a home game against tricky Ipswich there’s a real chance of the team getting dragged into a genuine relegation battle.

Ruben Amorim knew he was walking into a big job but the extent to how sour it has gone wouldn’t have been expected.

Now that the Man Utd manager is starting to take some flak, he’s found some support in Rio Ferdinand who disagreed with Gary Neville and gave Amorim a three-word solution to his woes.

Rio Ferdinand disagrees with Gary Neville over Ruben Amorim

As the results have continued to find new lows every week and no light at the end of the tunnel, questions are starting to get asked of Amorim.

The major question, as many would have expected as soon as he walked through the doors of Old Trafford, has been about his system.

The triple injury blow to his midfield forced Amorim to field a patched-up team against Spurs and Gary Neville was critical of how it set players up to fail.

The stubbornness to stick with the system has become a stick to beat him with but Ferdinand, speaking on his YouTube channel, supported Amorim and disagreed with Neville’s assertion.

He said: “I’m not telling him to change his philosophy. That’s not the right thing. You bring a maanger in who plays a particular way, his identity, you bring him for those reasons.

“To ask him [to change] for a group of players that got the last manager sacked to suit them, you might as well just go to the graveyard now. Stick with what you do but tweak it a little bit.”

Ferdinand’s three-word solution to Man Utd woes

When asked to expand upon the tweaks he would want to see at the club, Ferdinand gave a simple, three-word response and then elaborated upon it.

He simply said that the team needs to mix and match their intricate style of play by “crossing the ball”, his solution to United’s woes.

Ferdinand said: “Cross the ball! Sometimes when you get in the final third, if you look at the goals/created chances, it’s when teams cross the ball.

“Defenders today are not trained as much in dealing with crosses. Crosses always create havoc. Simplify the game a bit in certain areas of the pitch. Avoid players overthinking every action.”

While that does seem an oversimplification, there’s a semblance of truth there because the team looked better against Spurs when Amorim played the wing-backs on their “true” side, leading to more dynamism and multi-faceted attacking opportunities.

Mixing it up keeps things unpredictable and that’s something Ferdinand is right about.