Shaw highlights worry that team are ‘way too easy to play against’

Luke Shaw shouldered his share of the blame for Manchester United’s humiliation against Liverpool, but appeared to criticise the approach of manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

The England left-back, so effective for his country during the Euros, has suffered one of the greatest drop-offs in form among Solskjaer’s underachieving squad.

And, while Shaw acknowledged his own role in United’s latest disaster, he believed that, in tactical terms, his side were “too easy to play against”.

“I think it’s ourselves that we need to look at, first and foremost, in the mirror,” he said.

“Are we doing everything right and preparing right for the games in ourselves?

“Of course, we have the tactics and how the manager wants us to play, but I think at times we’re way too easy to play against.

“I think, for example, you look at the first goal, it can’t be possible that they can have sort of three running through in the first five minutes.

“We need to be more compact, we need to be better and we know that. I think also, maybe we can say

this result was coming. I think in past games where we’ve won, we haven’t been at our best and we know that.

“We felt that inside the dressing room, and today we need to reflect and we have to move on from this because it hurts.”

The United manager himself described the performance and result as “rock bottom” for his club.

And Shaw did not shy away from his own individual responsibility on a day in which United suffered their heaviest ever home defeat to their bitter rivals.

“Not good enough,” said Shaw. “I know, of course, that this game is a team sport, a team game, but I think as individuals we need to be accountable for some of the performances today.

“I’m not hiding, not speaking. I come out, I say wasn’t good enough and I speak on behalf of myself, not the team.

“I’m accountable for my performance and it wasn’t good enough.

“We know we can be better but for me also, I need to be better than I was today.”