Manchester United are failing to play to Cristiano Ronaldo's strengths, according to Paul Merson.

Ronaldo has been headline news so far this week after his angry reaction to being substituted at Brentford on Wednesday night.

The Portuguese ace lasted the full 90 minutes in Saturday's 1-0 win over West Ham but his performance left many underwhelmed, including the Sky Sports Pundit.

Speaking on Gillette Soccer Saturday post-match, the former Arsenal man said: "He did not do very well.

"He did a couple of good things, he passed the ball to Martial (which led to the goal) but they don't really play to his strengths.

"You have got to get the ball in the box for Ronaldo but I do not see anybody knocking them into the air.

"Every cross is low and it is shallow, it is never up for him to attack and nobody jumps higher than Ronaldo in my opinion.

"It was not great but he stayed on and knitted a couple of things together and as I say for the goal, he is the one who comes short and played a little ball to Martial and they were away down the left.

"It wasn't a great performance but United just need to get in the top four."

Marcus Rashford scored the only goal of the game for the Red Devils as United moved up into fourth in the Premier League table, leapfrogging West Ham in the process.

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