Luke Shaw reveals dressing room debrief with Manchester United teammates after

Luke Shaw admits Manchester United were outfought by Newcastle and says players had a private chat in the dressing room about what went wrong.

The defender admits their rivals were superior in terms of passion, hunger, desire and attitude and admitted the 2-0 Premier League defeat was coming.

On Man United‘s performance, Shaw said: “Not good enough. I feel like every time I speak after bad results I’m always honest and I think us as a team have to be honest.

“I do think Newcastle are a very good side but I don’t think they won the game on quality. I think they won it on passion and hunger, desire, attitude. They clearly had higher motivation than we do and that can’t be possible.

“I feel like I say the same things every time we lose. That’s unacceptable and we know that. That was a massive game today and they wanted it more. At Man United that cannot be possible.”

Shaw added: “I think maybe you can say it’s been coming before the international break. We had dropped levels and it was clear to see today that those levels were not there.”

On the private chat among the players, Shaw said: “The players had a chat in the changing room after with no staff around because ultimately it’s down to us as players on the pitch.

“It was nowhere near good enough. We had to speak, we had to speak out in front of each other and own up to it.”

The result saw Newcastle leapfrog Erik ten Hag’s men into third place in the Premier League.

Man United will drop out of the Champions League spots if Tottenham get the better of Everton on Monday night, live on talkSPORT. However, Spurs will have two more matches than Ten Hag’s side.

And the manager echoed Shaw’s comments.

“The race for the top four is going to be a fight, and you can only win that when you match the desire and passion of the opponent.

“Setbacks always you have to deal with, we have to leave this behind and only take the lessons from the determination, about the passion and desire.”