Ralf Rangnick has questioned whether or not Manchester United gamers are match sufficient to fulfill his urgent calls for.

Southampton coach Ralph Hasenhuttl mentioned the Saints ‘got here into the sport’ after United struggled to take care of their urgent after the 40-minute mark within the groups’ 1-1 stalemate at Previous Trafford.

United began the Rangnick period in a 4-2-2-2 formation that was deserted after 5 Premier League video games and Southampton have lengthy operated in the identical system underneath Hasenhuttl, Rangnick’s former colleague within the Purple Bull group.

Hasenhuttl additionally remarked ‘it’s not an enormous secret that when [United] lose the ball, their reverse gear isn’t at all times the most effective from all people’. Southampton had been the extra threatening facet after Che Adams equalised within the forty eighth minute and United’s lack of ability to press was partly former supervisor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s undoing.

Rangnick acknowledged United are a technically-minded facet however questioned their endurance and physicality, having mentioned they weren’t ‘nasty’ sufficient in opposition to Southampton.

“To be trustworthy, I don’t know if we’re not match sufficient to play that means as a result of, as you mentioned, I got here in the course of the season, we had no pre-season and, in essence, we had in complete two weeks in complete in between the place we might prepare in a standard means,” Rangnick mentioned.

“If I watched the staff in coaching that’s being ready for video games I wouldn’t enable myself to say we’re not match sufficient to play like that. I don’t suppose that is the case as a result of then we might additionally wrestle within the final 20 minutes of the sport after which within the recreation in opposition to Burnley and immediately we confirmed that we’re bodily capable of play ahead.

“We didn’t at all times take the fitting selections. We weren’t at all times composed and we weren’t structured sufficient in the way in which we performed within the first-half in comparison with the way in which we performed within the final half hour, we had been a bit bit erratic in these moments. I’d have wished us to remain a bit calmer and cooler.

“However we had the probabilities. I don’t suppose it’s a query of physicality with regard to health however sure, it would effectively be. As I mentioned, the gamers we now have are technical gamers, they prefer to play technical soccer. However within the Premier League, regardless of in opposition to which staff – and particularly in video games like these in opposition to Southampton – you can’t win video games solely in a technical means. You even have to indicate some physicality.”