Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes proved Paul Scholes' pre-match Manchester United suspicion right

There were plenty of talking points to emerge from Manchester United's desperately disappointing draw against Southampton and one of them arrived in the build-up from club-great-turned-pundit Paul Scholes.

Ralf Rangnick won't have been happy with what his side produced as Jadon Sancho's first-half strike was cancelled out by Che Adams to wrap up a miserable week for United and the same all-too-familiar problems that have haunted the team in recent weeks were on display again.

Scholes argued before the match that there are no proven partnerships in the first-team squad and what transpired proved him right as the Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes axis briefly flickered before fading into obscurity.

He said to BT Sport: "When I look back at teams that I played in, I always think of relationships, partnerships within a team.

"In this Man United team at the minute, I don't see partnerships. I don't see two centre-halves that will always play well together. I don't see left-back and left-back and left-winger playing well together."

On this evidence, Fernandes and Pogba look incompatible and while there were brief suggestions they could work in tandem to carve Southampton apart, the more the match wore on, the more the feeling grew that they cannot perform together.

United supporters respect Scholes ' comments. He's one of the greatest midfielders the club has ever nurtured and his opinion comes from a position of authority given what he achieved. His pre-match prediction was damning but not incorrect.

Criticism of United's failings in recent weeks have centred on their inability to sustain the level they set in the first half. They're a Jekyll and Hyde team that cannot find any consistency and, unfortunately, they haven't