Manchester United left-back Luke Shaw did not hold back in his assessment of the team’s performance in their 3-1 Premier League loss to West Ham at the weekend.
The Red Devils’ recent slump continued with a tame display at the London Stadium, resulting in their third league defeat of the season in just the first two months of the campaign.
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This marks United’s worst start since the infamous 2013/14 campaign under David Moyes, and we all know how that ended.
Shaw pulled no punches with a frank and honest analysis of how United played, calling them ‘horrendous’ – which is hard to argue with if you watched the game.
MUFC were never really in the match as a contest, with West Ham scoring early on and punishing some woeful defending from the visitors to add another in the first half and a third in the second.
They will need to improve fast if they are to get themselves out of this position and re-establish themselves as title contenders, or even top four material.
Shaw seems to know this, as he sounded distinctly unimpressed with the display afterwards.
‘If you want the truth I think it was honestly horrendous,’ Shaw is quoted in the Telegraph.
‘We didn’t look like a team that was going to beat West Ham. I think individually and as a team we were awful. That’s not good enough.
‘It’s hard to take and we’re sorry to the fans for what they saw. It was not good enough from a Man Utd team with all the talent we have.’