Neville labels Man Utd ‘a joke’ after loss to Everton

Former Man Utd defender Gary Neville labelled Ralf Rangnick’s side “a joke” after they lost 1-0 to Everton on Saturday.

The Red Devils put in another underwhelming performance at Goodison Park as a first-half Anthony Gordon strike sealing three crucial points for Frank Lampard’s men.

Defeat to Everton means Man Utd are now six points adrift of fourth-placed Tottenham and looking increasingly unlikely to qualify for the Champions League.

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And Neville credited Lampard and Everton for bouncing back from their midweek defeat to Burnley but bemoaned another poor Man Utd performance.

“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.”

And Rangnick was frustrated at watching another toothless attacking display from his Man Utd side, he said: “Whenever we score the first goal, we had enough confidence and we won most of those games. But when you concede the first goal, we lost a little bit of our composure and maybe confidence.

Anthony Gordon with a vital goal for Everton

A big deflection, but the Goodison Park crowd won’t care one bit, listen to that roar! pic.twitter.com/AkPtyTBF5Q

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“With all respect to Everton because they have a good team, but if you don’t score against a team who conceded three goals against Burnley in the end you cannot expect to get anything out of it.

“The players themselves should be eager to play international football, if possible Champions League.

“But if we play like we did here we just don’t deserve it. In order to qualify for Europe