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25th December 2017
04:28pm GMT

But Neville claimed, both during commentary and in his post-match comments, that midfielder Ander Herrera refused to slot in at right back, which would have allowed Victor Lindelof to move into a more central position and cover for Smalling.
"Smalling has got to flag up as an experienced defender that he's struggling, get Lindelof into the centre," Neville said on his podcast. "Herrera come back to full-back. It didn't happen for two or three minutes.
"Then Phil Jones recognised it had happened and tried to reorganise - as I saw it, Ander Herrera refused to go to right-back and told Henrikh Mkhitaryan to go back there."All of a sudden Smalling sits down on the floor and then goes off the pitch and then comes back on at centre-back. He ends up picking up Harry Maguire.
"You can't believe the disorganisation and lack of leadership shown by Manchester United at the end of that game in a game they should have won. Jose [Mourinho] will be furious when he watches that back."
Herrera has since responded to Neville's assertion that he had defied instructions, taking to Twitter on Christmas Eve to deliver a not-so-subtle message to the Sky Sports pundit.
https://twitter.com/AnderHerrera/status/944986340713750529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.goal.com%2Fen-gb%2Fnews%2Fmanchester-united-ander-herrera-hits-back-christmas-message%2Fmly9n3nz2w9k1mr57umz47b7fExplore more on these topics: