Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag is of the same belief as Gary Neville - the Red Devils attack is lacking something at the moment.
United have looked significantly closer to being back to their best under Ten Hag this term, shaking off a poor start to sit just outside the Champions League qualification places after 13 games played. With that being said, there are still glaring issues for the manager to address.
The problems seem to be situated at the top end of the pitch, as United are the lowest scoring of all the sides currently situated inside the top six places in the table with a feeble 18 goals scored this season. That's four less than Brighton and 13 fewer than league-leaders Arsenal.
This is not something that has gone unnoticed, with United legend Gary Neville recently claiming his former side have the worst front three of the entire 'big-six'.
"United's front three are the weakest out of the top six," he said on the Gary Neville podcast after Sunday's 3-1 defeat at Aston Villa.
"You think of Kulusevski-Kane-Son - United would take those three. Arsenal have Saka-Jesus-Martinelli. Liverpool have Nunez, Diaz, Jota, Salah and Firmino - you'd definitely choose three of them over what United have got. You'd take Chelsea's even.
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"United's front players aren't as good as they should be, although Erik ten Hag is getting the maximum out of them. I don't know where the money has gone again - the spend over the past four or five years."
Ten Hag's remarks after Thursday's 4-2 Carabao Cup win over Aston Villa suggest he feels the fitness of United's struggling attack is a problem in itself that needs rectifying and fast.
"In the front line, the availability of the players that is a concern for us. We had so many games, like Newcastle United, Marcus Rashford ill. We had to play some other games where we have to improvise to construct a proper offensive line.
"If you can’t do that, then it’s really difficult to get into the first four, if you don’t have the players to construct a proper offensive line.
"One of the conclusions you already can make is about the frontline. That is a concern. I think we really made progress in football – pressing, play out from the back, also attacking, but the final third of our game we have to improve."
United's next outing comes in the form of a trip to west London to take on an in-form Fulham side out to inflict a second successive league defeat on Ten Hag's troops.
