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Erik ten Hag branded Manchester United ‘rubbish’ as they crashed to a pitiful 4-0 defeat at Brentford.
Ten Hag was left fuming after looking on in disbelief as United shipped four goals inside 35 dismal minutes against the rampant Bees.
And it left former club legend Gary Neville to compare Ronaldo and his humiliated team-mates to an under-nines side.
It was United’s seventh straight league away defeat — and left them rock bottom of the table for the first time since 1992.
Erik ten Hag was furious with his side's miserable display in a crushing 4-0 loss to Brentford
The result has left the Red Devils bottom of the table for the first time since 1992
‘It’s rubbish, it’s poor, we need higher standards than that,’ raged Ten Hag after goals from Josh Dasilva, Ben Mathias Jensen, Ben Mee and Bryan Mbeumo condemned United to a desperate loss.
And the new Old Trafford chief — the first United boss in over a century to lose his first two games following last week’s grim effort against Brighton — left no one in any doubt who was to blame.
‘The good players we had should have been better,’ he stormed. Ten Hag made three substitutions after the first-half horror show and went on: ‘I could have changed another eight.
‘You can have a plan but the plan went into the bin. I can bring up several reasons why but that looks like excuses, and excuses are not there. At the top we have to deliver and we didn’t do that.’
Keeper David de Gea publicly apologised after allowing Dasilva’s shot to squirm through his grasp for the opener, while there was more shocking defending to gift Brentford their second. After that swift one-two, United simply fell apart.
Club legend Gary Neville also had plenty of criticism about the nature of United's defeat
‘When you make mistakes like this you can’t win a game,’ said Ten Hag.
‘It’s difficult for me, it’s surprising when you start a game like this. The team has to take responsibility, switch on from the first whistle and be ready for a battle.
‘You have to take responsibility on the pitch as a team and as individuals and that’s what we didn’t do. But the manager is responsible
