Devils' Advocate: 'Horrible performance'

let's start with Fulham let's start with Fulham yeah They were poor.

Poor? They were incredibly poor.

Lethargic, lazy, unimaginative football.

The first half was just so...

It was like slow-mo football.

Such a lack of intensity.

But

what I don't get, though, about that lack of intensity is you know that the pressure is now building up.

So why isn't there that hunger? Because you go from getting beat by City, or whatever you want to say about the red card, you then get turned over by Brighton and you were 2-0 up.

And then you go into that game against Fulham, and Fulham, no offence, they're not a great team.

If you can put more effort in, you probably know you win.

So where was that

effort? Well, looking at it tactically, it's not like Fulham had everyone behind the ball in the first half.

It was a wide-open game.

They had big chances.

Lammons made big saves.

United probably should have put the ball in the back of the net as well, but again, didn't create enough chances.

But what do you blame a lack of intensity on? It's hard not to look at the manager a little bit here because the manager is the man who's supposed to G those players up before the game and get them ready to run through brick walls.

But then also you're a professional footballer.

Your own pride is at stake after what happened against Brighton, after what happened against City.

You want to prove people wrong, surely.

If not for the love of Manchester United, for your own pride.

And it felt like none of the players showed that in that first half.

Or they were concentrating too much on the instructions that they were given from the manager.

I'm not too sure.