Jose Mourinho has slammed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s tactics away at Barcelona.
Manchester United were not only beaten at the Camp Nou on Tuesday, they were swatted aside like an insect on a hot summer’s day.
The Red Devils surrendered an early 2-0 lead after Lionel Messi caught them napping twice, and Philippe Coutinho was afforded way too much space to smash home the third in the second half.
Mourinho, who was fired by the Old Trafford outfit in December, is not impressed by the way Solskjaer set his team up.
“I think the United approach was different (in the second leg),” he told Russia Today.
“Man Utd in the first match, zonally, they occupied that central zone very well. So when he (Messi) was coming inside, he was finding Fred, McTominay coming to the inside all the time.
“In this match, maybe because Man Utd was losing 1-0 from the first match, they tried to start with a different perspective.
“Then it was Pogba wide on the left, McTominay much more on the right, Jesse Lingard playing as a 10 behind the striker.
“In front of the defensive line was only Fred. That’s the area when Messi comes, where Messi gets the ball.
“And when Messi has the ball one on one, you are dead. That’s why I never I like the individual man to man against Messi. Messi is a cage, you have to create a cage.”