Paul Scholes feels that Ramus Hojlund’s poor play is partly due to Manchester United’s serious issue with “selfish” wingers Alejandro Garnacho and Antony.

Following a miserable group stage campaign that culminated in a lackluster 1-0 loss at home to Bayern Munich, United was eliminated from the Champions League on Wednesday night.

United failed to fashion any real openings with Hojlund bullied by Bayern’s centre-half pairing of Kim min-Jate and Dayot Upamecano throughout the evening.

With Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial sidelined through illness, Antony and Garnacho kept their places in the side for the third game running.

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The inquest is underway with fans and pundits wondering how United didn’t get out of this group.

Not only that, but to finish bottom with four points and a minus three goal difference? It’s truly shambolic from United and Ten Hag.

Some will point to the defence as United leaked 15 goals in six games.

However, Man United legend Paul Scholes is more concerned about the attack though and turned his attention to wingers Antony and Alejandro Garnacho.

‘The big worry for me is the centre forward,’ Scholes told TNT Sport.

‘We can’t create a chance for him. I know he has scored five goals in the Champions League but he hasn’t got any in the league, he hasn’t got a chance tonight and I don’t think he had a chance on Saturday [against Bournemouth].

‘It is a big concern, where the goals are coming from. You expect creativity from your wide players, Antony and Garnacho but they are quite selfish players.

‘They aren’t players who are looking up, they are players thinking about scoring their own goals, scoring themselves.’

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Erik ten Hag also sympathised with his young striker after his tough night up against Bayern’s defence.

‘He scored five goals in the Champions League,’ the United boss said in his post-match press conference.

‘He has that, and he has to take this because it’s a huge performance from him. It also has to do with our attacking in those games.

‘He has to build on this into the Premier League. That is very good but today he did not create many chances but he had faced a very good opponent.’

Rasmus Hojlund needs service

The numbers don’t look good.

Antony and Garnacho combined for zero key passes and zero accurate crosses before being taken off against Bayern on 74 minutes.

That simply isn’t enough in a game that United needed to win due to their glaring lack of creativity.

Once more, lacking in service, Rasmus Hojlund was unable to muster even a sniff and failed to register a shot on goal.

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The Dane has talent but he needs to get the ball inside the box and it just isn’t coming from Garnacho or Antony right now.

It wasn’t much better against Bournemouth, combining for nine crosses but only one found a United player.

Both Antony and Garnacho have real quality and potential, and maybe their roles are slightly different as inverted wingers, compared to the old-school wide men who would hug the touchline and whip crosses in.

What we are seeing isn’t good enough though, and if United want to get the best out of Hojlund then Antony and Garnacho need to start finding him in the penalty area.