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Former Manchester United striker, Michael Owen has criticized three of the club’s centre-backs after their 1-0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League on Sunday.

Owen said the likes of Harry Maguire, Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui did ‘nothing’ to contribute to the team against Tottenham.

Recall that James Maddison’s first-half goal gave the hosts all three points against Ruben Amorim’s side.


Maddison was the only player to react after Lucas Bergvall’s shot was parried by Man United goalkeeper Andre Onana and put the ball in the back of the net from yards out.

However, Owen was disappointed that none of Maguire, De Ligt or Mazraoui was on hand to deal with the situation and prevent Maddison from scoring.

“What frustrates me more than anything about the Manchester United team is that those centre-halves do nothing during the game,” Owen told Premier League Productions.

“They hardly pick up any players at all, yet when you ask them to do one job – stop the guy who is shooting – they are sleeping at that as well.

“We’ve seen so many clips in the first half when there is nobody to pick up, there are three of them literally doing nothing.

“They won’t push in, they won’t go and mark anybody, they just sit there.”

Man United’s next Premier League game is against Everton next weekend.


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