Newcastle United 2-0 Manchester United: Red Devils must qualify for Champions League, says Luke Shaw

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Manchester United's show successful the 2-0 decision to Newcastle United was "unacceptable" and "nowhere adjacent bully enough," says defender Luke Shaw.

Erik 10 Hag's broadside dropped to 4th successful the array aft being leapfrogged by Newcastle successful the contention to suffice for adjacent season's Champions League.

The Red Devils person not won - oregon scored - successful their past 3 league games.

"They [Newcastle] wanted it more. At Manchester United that shouldn't beryllium possible," Shaw told Sky Sports.

The England full-back added: "I don't deliberation Newcastle won connected prime today, they won connected desire, passion, hunger, attitude.

"We request to realise the problems rapidly and alteration it round. We inactive tin person a precise bully play but with results and performances similar this we can't."

'We person to get successful the Champions League'

Despite Sunday's defeat, United are good placed to decorativeness their archetypal play nether Ten Hag successfully.

Having defeated Newcastle to triumph the Carabao Cup astatine Wembley successful February, they are successful semi-finals of the FA Cup and the quarter-finals of the Europa League.

Shaw, however, said that large improvements are needed aft the players "spoke out" successful the dressing country aft the last whistle.

"The players had a chat successful the changing country aft with nary unit round," added Shaw.

"We person to enactment retired what the problems are and permission them behind.

"It's down to us. It was obscurity adjacent bully enough. We had to talk retired successful beforehand of each other."

Having missed the accidental to found a six-point cushion connected 5th place, United instrumentality to enactment connected Wednesday erstwhile they big Brentford - the archetypal of 3 successive location games.

"We person to get successful the Champions League," added Shaw. "We are the biggest nine successful world, we person to beryllium successful the Champions League. We person to re-focus and get backmost to winning ways."

Marcus Rashford throws his footwear to the crushed successful vexation during the decision astatine Newcastle

'We got killed'

This was Manchester United's 27th Premier League crippled of the season. They person played different 20 games successful the Carabao Cup, FA Cup and Europa League.

Ten Hag denied the cupful runs had impacted connected the league form.

"You person to spot that each crippled is important, each league is important," helium told Match of the Day.

"We cognize however pugnacious it is to travel to Newcastle and I cognize they privation to instrumentality revenge [after losing Carabao Cup final]. You person to amusement the aforesaid passion, tendency and determination of the opponent.

"We didn't and we got killed. I americium definite [there volition beryllium a reaction]. That is what we person shown each play truthful far."

Manchester United's players respond during the decision to Newcastle United successful the Premier League

'Man Utd spell missing against large teams'

Manchester United person mislaid to six of the apical 9 sides distant from location successful the Premier League this season. They person yet to play astatine fifth-placed Tottenham and sixth-placed Brighton.

"They person not shown up against the large teams," erstwhile Red Devils defender Gary Neville told Sky Sports.

"Ten Hag needs to determine which players helium tin instrumentality guardant and which players helium can't."

On the show against Newcastle, Neville added: "Manchester United person been good beaten. They are not fooling anyone successful presumption of the bigger picture. There are worrying signs.

"They conscionable don't crook up successful matches similar this. They deserved to get beaten. Newcastle's show was acold better. Newcastle did privation it more."

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