‘A joke!’ Gary Neville slams Manchester United after defeat against Everton

Gary Neville branded Manchester United ‘a joke’ after they slipped to a damaging defeat against relegation threatened Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday.

The Toffees were starved of confidence following Wednesday’s defeat at Burnley which saw Frank Lampard’s sink to within a point of the drop zone.

United, however, struggled to assert their authority and were unable to find a way back into the contest after Anthony Gordon’s 27th minute opener.

Jordan Pickford made a sharp late save to deny Cristiano Ronaldo what would have been a scarcely deserved equaliser, but that effort aside Ralf Rangick’s side failed to offer any semblance of an attacking threat.

<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>Anthony Gordon with a vital goal for Everton ðª A big deflection, but the Goodison Park crowd won’t care one bit, listen to that roar! pic.twitter.com/AkPtyTBF5Q

Neville reserved praise for Lampard afterwards, particularly in the wake of Sean Dyche’s claim that his Burnley charges were instructed to seize on Everton’s insecurities at Turf Moor in midweek.

‘United a joke,’ Neville wrote on Twitter after the game. ‘Well done to Everton. Would have also been hard for Frank Lampard to hear Sean Dyche say what he said so well done to him. Some response.’

Everton matchwinner Gordon, meanwhile, admitted it was vital to get the home fans back onside after such a dispiriting defeat at Burnely.

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He said: ‘You can see by the results we get here. We definitely feed off the fans and are a better team with them.

‘They are a top team with top