Matthijs de Ligt issues challenge to Man Utd team-mates after Everton shocker

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Matthijs De Ligt has ordered Manchester United to stick together in the wake of their humbling defeat to Everton . United find themselves under-fire from all angles after losing to 10-men at Old Trafford on Monday night.

Everton found themselves a man down inside 14 minutes, when Idrissa Gueye was sent off for slapping team-mate Michael Keane. But it was United left with the red faces, thanks to a sublime goal from Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall.

The embarrassing loss brought United's five game unbeaten run to a shuddering halt. And piled the pressure on Ruben Amorim's men ahead of this weekend's difficult trip to face Crystal Palace .

And De Ligt admits the onus is now on United to show some bottle and bounce back. The Holland international said: "The next game (at Palace), obviously, is really important now.

"We have to bounce back from this performance. We had some good performances the last couple of weeks, and now we had a bad one. I think we can all say that.

"Now it's for us the case to come back, to stay together and to make clear what has to be better because, obviously, because this was not good enough."

De Ligt reckons Everton were more clinical than United - and has told his side that the Premier League can expose the "weak'.

The defender added: "We conceded one goal AND we didn't create a lot of chances. I think overall it was just a really bad performance.

"It is frustrating, but that's football. I mean, the Premier League is not for the weak. “One chance could be a goal and, yeah, if they score after one chance and we don't, then that makes the difference.

"That’s the difference between winning and losing, the efficiency. We lacked that. I think we lacked maybe the urgency to score the goals, to create the chances, and then you know, against a team like Everton, who drops back and who are really strong in the air, it's going to be quite difficult. That basically sums up the night."

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