WE’RE A LOAD OF RUBBISH

Ten Hag lays into United after Brentford rout as Neville says they ‘look like the under-9s’

ERIK TEN HAG last night branded Manchester United ‘rubbish’ as they crashed to a pitiful 4-0 defeat at Brentford.

Ten Hag was left fuming after looking on in disbelief as United shipped four goals inside 35 dismal minutes against the rampant Bees.

And it left former club legend Gary Neville to compare Ronaldo and his humiliated team-mates to an under-nines side.

It was United’s seventh straight league away defeat — and left them rock bottom of the table for the first time since 1992.

‘It’s rubbish, it’s poor, we need higher standards than that,’ raged Ten Hag after goals from Josh Dasilva, Mathias Jensen, Ben Mee and Bryan Mbeumo condemned United to a desperate loss.

And the new Old Trafford chief — the first United boss in over a century to lose his first two games following last week’s grim effort against Brighton — left no one in any doubt who was to blame.

‘The good players we had should have been better,’ he stormed. Ten Hag made three substitutions after the first-half horror show and went on: ‘I could have changed another eight.

‘You can have a plan but the plan went into the bin. I can bring up several reasons why but that looks like excuses, and excuses are not there. At the top we have to deliver and we didn’t do that.’

Keeper David de Gea publicly apologised after allowing Dasilva’s shot to squirm through his grasp for the opener, while there was more shocking defending to gift Brentford their second. After that swift one-two, United simply fell apart.

‘When you make mistakes like this you can’t win a game,’ said Ten

Hag. ‘It’s difficult for me, it’s surprising when you start a game like this. The team has to take responsibility — switch on from the first whistle and be ready for a battle.

‘You have to take responsibilty as a team and as individuals and that’s what we didn’t do. But the manager is responsible as well.’

De Gea was devastated at his error for Brentford’s opener and also his part in the short goal-kick routine which allowed Jensen to pick former Bees’ ace Christian Eriksen pocket for the second goal.

‘I cost three points for my team,’ said the Spanish keeper. ‘I should save the first shot.’ Worryingly for United fans, when asked how the team get themselves out of this, he answered: ‘Not sure.’

De Gea added: ‘All we can do is continue to work hard.’

Neville has been savage about the Reds lately and especially the running of the club by the maligned Glazer family. And here he pulled no punches once again.

‘They’ve been mauled,’ he stormed on Sky Sports last night. ‘It’s like a men’s team against under-9s. If you thought it couldn’t get any lower, it just has.’

That’s four straight Premier League defeats for United for the first time since 1979 — and they’ve been hit for four or more seven times in the past 10 months.

‘Manchester United players have proved under three different managers have shown they don’t run hard enough,’ moaned Neville.

‘They are drained of all confidence. They need help. Today is a new low. It seems like United can continually surpass their lows. The reality is this is really really bad.

‘I’ve been watching United for 42 years and I can’t think of a moment when it’s been as bad as it was in that first half.

‘The impact of that first half will be devastating for the players.’

As for Brentford, they became just the third side to score four goals against United in the first half of a Premier League game. And they did so by converting their first four shots on target. And coach Thomas Frank just hoped his team would get the credit they deserved for a dazzling display.

‘I was very pleased, very proud of the performance,’ said the Dane. ‘To beat Manchester United 4-0 — biggest club in the world, worldclass players — makes some remarkable memories for the Brentford fans here. It’s crazy. In some way unreal.

‘It’s no surprise that we win today because I know we’re good. Maybe it wasn’t a 4-0 game. We deserved to win, but it wasn’t a 4-0.

‘I really hope that people look into our performance and give us credit, because if you win 4-0 you must be doing something good.’