He explained: "The distance between the two central midfield players, see where Casemiro is and where Bruno Fernandes is, that cannot be right.
It compounds a worrying stat for the 20-year-old that he has the worst big chance conversion rate of any player in the Premier League to have had at least 10 of them, with only two of his 14 scored - a rate of just 14 per cent.
But Neville was particularly critical of the way Ruben Amorim had set up his midfield pair of Bruno Fernandes and Casemiro.
"Bruno Fernandes is playin right wing, the two of them in midfield are split, it’s embarrassing.
Spurs had five shots to United's eight, though the home side had three on target compared to the visitors two.