Gary Neville responds to Paul Scholes over Erik ten Hag's Manchester United decision

Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville admitted to having a 'sinking feeling' when the decision is made to take a short corner after Paul Scholes comments on Monday night.

During the Reds' 2-0 victory over Wigan Athletic in the third round of the FA Cup, United had a total of 12 corners. More often than not, Erik ten Hag's men chose to play the ball short rather than crossing into the area.

After numerous decisions to take a short corner, Scholes clearly felt enough was enough and posted to Instagram: "Short corners are s***." Neville chose to see the funny side on Tuesday morning, tweeting: "Well that's that!"

However, soon afterwards the Sky Sports pundit ellaborated on his thoughts. "Whilst I wouldn’t go as far as Scholesy on short corners (particularly if the opposing team are giants)," he explained, "it’s always a sinking feeling when the CB’s (centre-backs) have gone up and you have 5-6 in the box and you see it played short and not whipped in."

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Ultimately, this patient build-up tactic would not cost United against their League One opponents as goals from Diogo Dalot and Bruno Fernandes secured comfortable progression and a tie away at League Two Newport County or National League Eastleigh. After the final whistle, Ten Hag reflected on ITV: "Oh definitely [United should have scored more].

"It would have been great to get more. In the first half we had five or six good chances.

"We played good football and could have had more with that, but if you don’t score you have to stay focused and I think that is also what we did." United return to action on Sunday when they host