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‘Is my voice getting higher?’ – Roy Keane has Sky Sports studio in stitches as he despairs at Man United
Roy Keane’s frustration with Manchester United hit new heights – quite literally – after an embarrassing 4-1 defeat to Newcastle. Famed for his rants against the team he captained from 1997 to 2005, Keane found a new high pitch during a dressing down on Sky. It was another humiliating afternoon for United’s defenceGetty Sky SportsKeane couldn’t deal with what he was watching[/caption] Looking back over the loss, United’s 14th of the season in 32 games, the former midfielder was particularly annoyed by the third Newcastle goal – Harvey Barnes’ second. The English winger capitalised on a slip from Noussair Mazraoui midway inside the United half and ran at a gap between Victor Lindelof and Leny Yoro before firing home. Giving his take on the goal, Keane said: “Barnes is brilliant, take nothing away from Barnes, but someone’s got to lunge at him, someone’s got to tackle him. “They gave a goal away at [Nottingham] Forest two weeks ago – someone running through the middle – tackle him!” There was then a moment of laughter when Keane tripped over himself, saying: “Is my voice getting higher?” He then continued: “Tackle him, lunge at him, do something, how can someone run through the middle and not get touched. “United have been sloppy in possession. A player can slip but you’re part of a team and if you make a mistake you hope one of your teammates covers for you but no one’s covering each other on this United team.” Lindelof was making just his ninth start of the season, while Yoro is on 15. Yet even with injuries to other centre-backs Matthijs de Ligt, Johnny Evans and Lisandro Martinez, very little is changing at United under Ruben Amorim. The Portuguese has 12 wins, nine draws and 11 defeats since joining the club in November, and even he couldn’t find any positives from the loss. View Tweet: https://t.co/gL3EIByvaW “It’s a bad say for us, clearly they were better than us,” he said post-match. “We made a lot of mistakes that helped the opponent get more confidence to score more goals. “We need to focus on the next one, analyse this one and move fast to the next one – that is really important for us.” Part of Amorim’s struggles at United has been his stubbornness, sticking to his principals of a 4-3-2-1 formation when he doesn’t have the players to fit it. Another of his key tenets throughout his career has also been taking the blame for his players’ failures, but that seemed to have abandoned him when he dropped Andre Onana from his matchday squad. The goalkeeper made two glaring errors against Lyon in the Europa League and was replaced in net by Altay Bayindir. Onana was taken out of the firing line due to his Lyon disasterclassGetty Explaining the move post-match, Amorim said: “Sometimes a player needs to be pushed and put [on] again to play and sometimes the player needs to disconnect. “It was my choice, I left him at home because every time he goes to the bench the cameras would go to him. “He was on the bench but not playing but was feeling the pressure and feeling the moment, so for me it was one thing or another – it was my choice.” The Premier League table is not a good look for United
Roy Keane’s frustration with Manchester United hit new heights – quite literally – after an embarrassing 4-1 defeat to Newcastle.
Famed for his rants against the team he captained from 1997 to 2005, Keane found a new high pitch during a dressing down on Sky.
Looking back over the loss, United’s 14th of the season in 32 games, the former midfielder was particularly annoyed by the third Newcastle goal – Harvey Barnes’ second.
The English winger capitalised on a slip from Noussair Mazraoui midway inside the United half and ran at a gap between Victor Lindelof and Leny Yoro before firing home.
Giving his take on the goal, Keane said: “Barnes is brilliant, take nothing away from Barnes, but someone’s got to lunge at him, someone’s got to tackle him.
“They gave a goal away at [Nottingham] Forest two weeks ago – someone running through the middle – tackle him!”
There was then a moment of laughter when Keane tripped over himself, saying: “Is my voice getting higher?”
He then continued: “Tackle him, lunge at him, do something, how can someone run through the middle and not get touched.
“United have been sloppy in possession. A player can slip but you’re part of a team and if you make a mistake you hope one of your teammates covers for you but no one’s covering each other on this United team.”
Lindelof was making just his ninth start of the season, while Yoro is on 15.
Yet even with injuries to other centre-backs Matthijs de Ligt, Johnny Evans and Lisandro Martinez, very little is changing at United under Ruben Amorim.
The Portuguese has 12 wins, nine draws and 11 defeats since joining the club in November, and even he couldn’t find any positives from the loss.
“It’s a bad say for us, clearly they were better than us,” he said post-match.
“We made a lot of mistakes that helped the opponent get more confidence to score more goals.
“We need to focus on the next one, analyse this one and move fast to the next one – that is really important for us.”
Part of Amorim’s struggles at United has been his stubbornness, sticking to his principals of a 4-3-2-1 formation when he doesn’t have the players to fit it.
Another of his key tenets throughout his career has also been taking the blame for his players’ failures, but that seemed to have abandoned him when he dropped Andre Onana from his matchday squad.
The goalkeeper made two glaring errors against Lyon in the Europa League and was replaced in net by Altay Bayindir.
Explaining the move post-match, Amorim said: “Sometimes a player needs to be pushed and put [on] again to play and sometimes the player needs to disconnect.
“It was my choice, I left him at home because every time he goes to the bench the cameras would go to him.
“He was on the bench but not playing but was feeling the pressure and feeling the moment, so for me it was one thing or another – it was my choice.”
