Luke Shaw apologized for a “completely unacceptable”, “embarrassing” and “disgraceful” 7-0 loss at Liverpool that he says can’t be allowed to derail Manchester United’s season.
Per week on from profitable the Carabao Cup, United headed to Anfield with self assurance and background communicate of a possible quadruple. But faint Premier League identify hopes went up in smoke when United unraveled in a loss that matched their heaviest defeat.
“Unacceptable, embarrassing, to be honest,” Shaw mentioned. “I think out there on the pitch I felt embarrassed for us players, for the fans that were there supporting us, that were watching at home, to watch that second half.
“I can only apologize for that and us as players have to own it, we have to stand up and accept that it was nowhere near good enough. It was completely unacceptable and I’m sure they’re hurting but us as players are hurting a lot.
“I think our standards have clearly dropped since we’ve won that trophy and in the last couple of games we haven’t been our normal selves … We showed no personality, no mentality and for a big team to come here we need to be better.”
United had the easier probabilities within the first 1/2, best to be stuck chilly by way of Cody Gakpo simply prior to half-time.
“It showed in the first half that if you switch off for a moment then you get punished,” Shaw instructed MUTV. “I think in the second half we switched off for the whole half and not just moments. Like I said, it was embarrassing, disgraceful and it’s not acceptable what that second half was.”
United play at home to Real Betis on Thursday in the first leg of their Europa League last-16 tie.
“I think we can’t let this one result derail our whole season because I think we’re in a really good place,” Shaw mentioned. “It’s another hurdle that we need to go over and us as a team we’ll climb over that.”