ROY KEANE launched a scathing attack on Man Utd after the Red Devils slipped up at home again.
Ruben Amorim’s United couldn’t get past West Ham on Thursday, with Soungoutou Magassa’s leveller cancelling out Diogo Dalot’s opener.
Old Trafford legend Keane, 54, hit out at the Red Devils post-match, saying: “Every time I watch Man Utd, they disappoint me.”
Speaking on Sky Sports, he continued: “After they get the goal, you are playing against a team in the bottom three, they take their foot off the gas.
“You’re 1-0 up! Take nothing away from West Ham and they just about deserved the equaliser.”
Magassa’s equaliser kept the Hammers 18th in the Premier League table- and crucially still in the relegation zone – two points adrift of 17th place Leeds.
United, meanwhile, sit eighth in the table – but they could have climbed to fifth with victory this evening.
As boos rang around Old Trafford at the full-time whistle, Keane blasted: “Every time I watch this United team, they disappointing. They aren’t clinical, they weren’t nasty enough to get the job done.”
“People will be scratching their heads. One minute they are making progress, win and you go fifth. There will be a lot of frustration.
“Show your quality. In their last three or four games, I think it has been desperate. Really poor. An opportunity to get the job done and they were almost frightened. We are talking about fifth here by the way. Same old problems.”
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Goalscorer Dalot admitted the blame for yet another collapse lies on the squad. He said: “We cannot get as anxious as we get.
“We were a bit more sloppy with the ball in possession. Obviously disappointed with the draw, we had the game there.
“It shouldn’t be like this. You fight for 60 minutes to score a goal and when it happens, you should keep doing the same things.
“Unfortunately, we couldn’t hold the result. In the end, we have to look to ourselves. It’s more our fault.”
Gary Neville echoed Keane’s frustrations at full-time, with Amorim’s side picking up just one point from a possible six against Everton and West Ham.
He said: “You can see the disappointment on the faces of the Man Utd players, but they haven’t played well enough. They’ve let games drift.
“They haven’t shown anywhere near enough urgency in the game. You can see some disappointed faces there – Jason Wilcox and Omar Berrada – they know it’s not good enough.”
Thursday marks the seventh consecutive game that Man Utd have failed to keep a clean sheet.
They travel to rock-bottom Wolves on Monday night, who are on track for the lowest Christmas points tally the Premier League has ever seen.
Yet Keane has little hope of Amorim’s side picking up a result at Molineux.
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MATHEUS CUNHA looked way off the pace on his return from injury as Manchester United missed another golden chance to climb up the table.
Diogo Dalot scored his first Premier League goal in over a year to set United on course for a Champions League spot.
But Ruben Amorim’s side immediately took their foot off the gas rather than look for a clincher.
And West Ham turned the set-piece tables on United as Soungoutou Magassa fired in the rebound from a Jarrod Bowen header to snatch a point.
In truth, United barely deserved the win as they were far too relaxed about their slim one-goal advantage – much to the ire of Roy Keane in the Sky Sports studio.
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He said: “This team is not ready to go fifth, fifth in the league!
“They’ve got Wolves next, they are one of the worst teams I’ve ever seen in the Premier League. Let’s see.
“I don’t get how the players or manager don’t sense it. That there could be a twist. They have to do better than that.”
Keane won seven Premier League titles during his time at Old Trafford, with Sir Alex Ferguson’s notoriously ruthless standards instilled into each and every one of those players.
Questioning the current crop, he raged: “Every player at Old Trafford now gets a standing ovation! Where are the standards at the club?
“The reason you are playing for Man Utd is that you deal with these situations.
“You try and deal better being one up against a team in the bottom three and Everton with 10 men. If you can’t deal with that, how can you deal with being a team in the top of the table?
“If they are anxious, you worry why they are playing for Man Utd and what they are fearful of. Fearful of West Ham, why?”
Everything is important, every game is important. We need to win the next one
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United boss Amorim also had his say on the result, declaring: “It was not constant. We had good moments and we lost a little bit of control after the goal.
“We should have closed the game when we scored the first one.
“The game was in control, we knew it. Any set pieces can be a problem. We couldn’t maintain the ball after the goal.
“Losing second balls, running with the ball, they were winning the first ball. We can control that kind of game. We should be better with the ball after the first goal.
“The characteristics with the players inside the box were sometimes not enough.
“Everything is important, every game is important. We need to win the next one.”
