Gary Neville leads Man Utd fans venting their frustration at Erik ten Hag after leaving star man on bench vs Newcastle

MANCHESTER UNITED fans were fuming that Fred did not start against Newcastle United.

Erik ten Hag has a number of midfield issues due to Christian Eriksen’s long-term injury and the suspension of Casemiro.

Many expected the energetic Brazilian Fred to be named in the side to take on the Magpies.

However, the 30-year-old was only named as substitute with Scott McTominay and Marcel Sabitzer preferred.

United struggled to lay a glove on the Magpies throughout the opening period at St. James’ Park.

And supporters soon took to Twitter to vent their anger at the absence of Fred as even United legend Neville, commentating on Sky Sports, also revealed his surprise at his omission.

And he was even "more amazed" not to see him introduced off the bench at half time or early into the second period before Newcastle took the lead.

One fan fumed: “Seriously Ten Hag CANT be happy with how things are going!! His favorite is doing NOTHING. FRED HAS TO BE COMING ON!!! There’s Sabitzer/Fred EASILY cover up more ground!”

Another wrote: “I was happy with the starting lineup, except for no AWB and Martial, but not much Ten Hag can do about that. But now this game is SCREAMING for Fred to make some chaos.”

A fellow Red Devil said: “Ten hag needs to get fred on McTominay and anyone for weghorst asap.”

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Another tweeted: “We desperately need Fred.”

As another commented: “Ten hag has problem,it should have been sabitzer fred.”

Fred was introduced late on but there was nothing he could do to stop United falling a 2-0 defeat that saw Newcastle leapfrog his side into third place.