Ralf Rangnick blasts 'unacceptable' Manchester United performance after 'humiliating' defeat to Brighton

Ralf Rangnick branded Manchester United's 4-0 thrashing by Brighton as 'humiliating' and 'unacceptable'.

United conceded four goals for the sixth time in their last 30 Premier League games to finally end their last chance of qualifying for the Champions League next season.

The battering by Brighton possibly marked the nadir of an apocalyptic season and the United supporters chanted "You're not fit to wear the shirt" in the second-half.

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Rangnick likened the defeat to United's 4-1 loss at Watford in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's final match in charge on November 20.

"To start with, it's important we apologise to our supporters who came all the way from Manchester here to Brighton," Rangnick said. "We were just not good enough from start to finish. The performance was not only poor, it was extremely poor.

"We knew that even from our first game that we played at home in the first half that Brighton is a very flexible, tactical team, always trying to play through your lines and to be creative.

"So we knew it was not enough to just enjoy yourself in possession of the ball, the problem was we were not that often in poss of the ball, in order to be in poss we should have won the ball but we gave them far too much space and time.

"And at half-time, if we're honest the only good thing was the result for us, it was 1-0. At half-time, the question for me was what are we going to do and bring on two new players, that was clear. But do we change the formation into a 3-5-2 or do we take the risk to play in a 4-4-2, which we did in the end.

"In hindsight, maybe that was a little bit too much of a risk. I take responsibility for that, if that was the