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Defeat at Everton may have felt like a new low for Manchester United ’s underperforming stars and their beleaguered interim manager Ralf Rangnick. But for the stunned supporters in the away end there must have been an overriding sense of deja vu.

After all, the ingredients of a Goodison humbling were present exactly as they were in April of 2019. A team seemingly weighed down by the badge on the front of the shirt and then overwhelmed by a passionate home crowd, and a manager left questioning what he could do with dreams of a Champions League finish all but evaporated.

It may have been a 4-0 reversal almost exactly three years ago, but make no mistake, the 1-0 loss to Frank Lampard’s relegation threatened Toffees was just as humiliating. “They [ Everton ] played Wednesday and they were tired but they had more desire than us, that is not acceptable. Very sad to lose today,” a furious David de Gea said after the full-time whistle.

"It is a disgrace from us, we should be winning this game,” the Spaniard added. "Second half, we were trying to add more creativity with our substitutions but we could not choose the right moment or make the right decision and couldn't score a single goal in 95 minutes,” Rangnick explained.

It’s often said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And those words could perhaps be attributed to a Manchester United team stuck in the same rut they found themselves in 36 months ago.