The remaining Manchester United fans inside Anfield were chanting for the club’s owners to sell when the coaches and players were already back inside analyzing their failings in a humiliating 4-0 loss to Liverpool.
It was a moment, before facing the media, for introspection and self-criticism by interim manager Ralf Rangnick and midfielder Bruno Fernandes at the home of their club’s fiercest rival.
“What I tell them in the locker room stays there, obviously,” Rangnick said, before offering a flavor of the damning assessment. “We were just not up to it in the first half. We didn’t win a single second ball. In most of the first ball situations we were just spectators. We were onlookers.
“If you play like that against a team like Liverpool, then it’s difficult.”
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