Manchester United goalkeeper Senne Lammens admitted the team had a collective off day after they suffered a 2-1 loss against Newcastle United on Wednesday. 

The home team took the lead as Anthony Gordon scored from a spot kick in the first half stoppage time. However, United equalised after just three minutes as Brazilian midfielder Casemiro found the back of the net.

When it looked like that both teams would share the spoils, William Osula scored the winner for the hosts in the 90th minute. 

Under Carrick’s tutelage, United had won six out of their seven matches before Wednesday, but this was the former midfielder’s first loss as the club’s manager.

“It’s a really big disappointment. We knew it was going to be a difficult one, especially away here. The manager warned us,” Lammens said.

“I think the first half wasn’t the best but then again we were heading into half-time with a pretty good feeling scoring that goal in the last minute against 10 men, so we had a pretty good feeling.

“But he warned us that it was not going to be easy and we had to attack them and try to break them quickly because the longer you wait for that and the longer it stays 1-1, you know one opportunity and one opportunity it can be changed. That’s today what happened.

“Yeah, it was nowhere near good enough today in every aspect and we need to learn from that.”

Asked what exactly went wrong and he believes United need to fix, straight-talking Lammens told MUTV: “I mean, yeah, just like physicality, the effort.

“It felt like we didn’t bring enough or the same as they did and then it’s always going to be a tough one, especially here with their fans behind them.

“I mean, you can have off days of course, but it’s a collective off day which is not really possible. Not in this league, not against those teams so we need to learn from it.”

Manchester United will next face Bournemouth at Old Trafford on Sunday.