GARY NEVILLE wants "moping" Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho to use being dropped as motivation to raise their standards.
The Manchester United duo were axed from Ruben Amorim's matchday squad for yesterday's trip to the Etihad.
Following the Red Devils' dramatic 2-1 triumph, Sky Sports pundits Neville, Roy Keane and Micah Richards debated Rashford and Garnacho's situations.
Neville, 49, said: "I don't know about their long term future, but what is really clear is that [Amorim] mentioned engaging with team-mates, he's mentioned standards.
"He's giving us clues, in fact, emphatic clues, about the last few days that they're moping and not doing their bit around the training ground.
"It's standards in training and he's thought 'no, I'm not having it, I'm not accepting it'. Good on him.
"For far too long we've seen players mope around that pitch and still continue to get a game or on the bench. No.
"It's got to be non-negotiable. If you don't give your all in your job, you're gone, you're out. That's it."
Neville went on to add that he hopes the pair can use this as fuel to raise their levels and improve.
He continued: "We've been sat in this studio for years as ex-Man United players saying 'give your absolute all' and players haven't been running back.
"We've seen Rashford and Garnacho stand on that left and right wing and not chase back when full-backs have gone past them and still stay on the pitch. No more.
"I want Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho to come back stronger, take the message that they've been given by training at the training ground this morning on a Sunday with no-one else there.
"I want them to take this in the right spirit and become the very best players for Manchester United.
"I don't care who you are, whether you're Andrei Kanchelskis or Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Nani, whoever you are as a wide player at Manchester United you've got to run this way [forward] as fast as you can and run that way [backwards] as fast as you can.
"They have got the talent, they've got the ability, but if they don't do that there is no place for you in the club, there is no place for you in the team."
Richards, meanwhile, attempted to defend Rashford.
'THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD'
After Neville compared the forward's application to that of Amad Diallo, Richards, 36, said: "It's different though, for Rashford.
"He's got the weight of the world on his shoulders, it's pressure.
"You know what it's like. Coming into the team as a kid, you run around.
"For me it just looks like Rashford's got the world on his shoulders. It seems to me like there's a bigger problem than just football."
Exasperated, Neville responded: "Micah, I played with David Beckham, with Wayne Rooney, with Roy Keane...
"The pressure that Marcus Rashford is under is nothing like the pressure that David Beckham and Roy Keane were under."
Richards then hit back: "But look at your squad. The names you've just reeled off. All serial winners. This Man United team are not all serial winners."
As Neville reached for his glass of water, Keane responded to Richards: "We weren't winners at the start Micah, you have to earn the right to win football matches."
Rashford watched the match from home, and after the game posted a picture of his TV with the caption: "Yesssssssss! Love it lads."
'IT'S A SIMPLE SELECTION'
Explaining his selection decisions, Amorim said: "We try to evaluate everything training performance, game performances, engagement with team-mates, push their team-mates up.
"Everything is on the line when we analyse and try to choose the players. It is my selection. Simple.
“I don’t want to send a message it is simply an evaluation and they know it. The players are really, really smart.
"Everybody understands my decision and I have to choose. It is simple selection.
“Of course the context is difficult because we have to win games and we have a difficult situation now.
"I pay attention to everything, the way you eat, the way you put your clothes to go to a game. Everything. I make my evaluation and then I decide."
Man Utd will next be in action on Thursday when they travel to Tottenham for their League Cup quarter-final.