Graeme Souness slams Manchester United: 'They are asking boys to do men's jobs, one shot on target is just not acceptable'
* Manchester United were comfortably beaten by Tottenham on Sunday
* Graeme Souness was critical of the attacking options in the United side
* The former Liverpool man feels they're 'asking boys to do men's jobs'
* Souness said it was unacceptable United had just one shot on target
After watching Manchester United comfortably beaten by Tottenham, Graeme Souness was less than impressed and feels Louis van Gaal is relying too much on youth, insisting the club are 'asking boys to do men's jobs'.
The Red Devils matched the Premier League title chasers during the opening 45 minutes but fell apart during a six-minute spell in the second half following goals from Dele Alli, Toby Alderweireld and Erik Lamela.
Souness was particularly critical of United's attack and feels playing the youngsters week in, week out is a reason for their shortcomings; as he compared their options to some of Europe's best.
Graeme Souness was critical of Manchester United after they were thumped by Tottenham on Sunday
He said: 'I've said it several times, they're relying on [Marcus] Rashford at 18, [Anthony] Martial at 20, [Jesse] Lingard at 23 to get you goals but this is Manchester United, one of the biggest football clubs in the world and every time we're here to talk about them, that's what we end up talking about.
'You're asking boys to do men's jobs. This is Manchester United. The other teams in the world at their level - Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Real Madrid look at their strike forces.'
United's best chance of the game fell to Martial early in the second half but the France international was denied by Hugo Lloris in the Tottenham goal.
But that was as good as it got as Van Gaal's men failed to muster another effort on target, much to the annoyance of Souness.
'For the manager, he couldn't complain about the work rate he got from his players in that first half and they were very much up for it,' he added.
'They worked their socks off to stop Tottenham getting a foothold in the game and it was only in later stages of that Tottenham managed to break free but one shot [on target] in 90 minutes for a Manchester United team is not acceptable.'
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