Gary Neville has urged Manchester United players to try and get the ball to Amad Diallo as frequently as possible.
While the Red Devils have since found a breakthrough courtesy of Diogo Dalot for his first of the season, it’s safe to say Amad caused the most problems for the Irons in the first half.
How Amad fared before the interval
According to StatmanDave, the Ivorian livewire recorded an 83 per cent passing accuracy inside the first 45 minutes and had 41 touches in total – six of which came inside the final third.
He made five crosses and completed three successful take-ons, as well as won three ground duels and three ball recoveries.
Amad’s first half vs. West Ham by numbers:
83% pass accuracy
41 total touches
6 touches in the final third
5 crosses
4 attempted take-ons
3 successful take-ons
3 ground duels won
3 ball recoveries
1 foul won
0.60 expected assistsThe most dangerous player on the pitch. ✨ pic.twitter.com/gmuG8eo9B5
— Statman Dave (@StatmanDave) December 4, 2025
It’s no surprise Amad has retained his place in the starting XI throughout the term. However, it does highlight just how sorely he’ll be missed when he departs for the Africa Cup of Nations in mid-December.
The attacker, most frequently deployed at wing-back in Ruben Amorim’s system, could play his final pre-Christmas game when United host Bournemouth on December 15, after which he, Bryan Mbeumo and Noussair Mazraoui will bid farewell to Carrington to go and represent their nations in Morocco.
Their absences have raised questions over whether INEOS will pursue winter reinforcements to bolster Amorim’s ranks, although it’s likely they would only consider loans or cut-price deals, given over £200 million was shelled out in the summer.
What Neville had to say about Amad
When reacting to his former club’s display before the interval, Neville said on Sky Sports’ match coverage: “I think Manchester United should keep feeding Amad. He was the bright spark in the first half.
“He’s a player who likes to take defenders on and [El Hadji Malick] Diouf is struggling with him.”
I will keep saying this, Amourim is not what he thinks he is.
Why changing Cunha for Diogu, why starting with haven when yoro is available.
A good coach don’t always tampers with center halves especially with 3 men defense. You keep conceeding cheap goals, and yet too proud to change formations
Everton defended 1 goal from 19th minutes against ur team with 10 men, but I couldn’t defend 1 goal scored midway in the second half.
Amourim out of pride sold most of UTD better players, because of his one way pattern.
UTD fans should stop jumping up at any victory because most victories comes out of mere luck, or how many matches has man UTD won convincely under Amourim.
Amourim has dropped more points than any previous man UTD manager within the same period.
He has smashed most man UTD good records, and had set the most unwanted records with man UTD.
Raccliffe for me is too soft to be man UTD admistrator.
Amourim is. Killing man UTD youth system, something every other managers had upheld, Maino could have blossomed under a better manager. Where is Amass, Kone, ObiMattins, Diego Leon, etc
I’ve given up on the 1st team under Amorin he sent Amass to Sheffield Wednesday who were struggling under a points deduction and it’s got even worse with the latest deduction Vitek has gone to Bristol CITY and Bayindir is still our only number 2 so if Lammens gets injured we could be back to shipping soft goals again