Roy Keane butchers Man Utd and calls out one player with brutal rant after Newcastle thrashing

Roy Keane has branded Manchester United a "weak team physically and mentally" after their thrashing by Newcastle on Sunday. at St James' Park in their game, with Ruben Amorim's changes not having the desired effect.

Amorim , handing a first league start to Altay Bayindir, while also handing a league debut to youngster Harry Amass. They went in at the break with the score at 1-1 after Sandro Tonali's strike was cancelled out by Alejandro Garnacho's neat finish.

But Newcastle took control after the break, with Harvey Barnes tapping in to make it 2-1 before charging through the middle of the defence to find the top corner for 3-1. Bayindir then compounded things by giving the ball away to allow Bruno Guimaraes a fourth.

Former United captain Keane was irate in the Sky Sports studio at St James' Park, stating "I can't believe how bad the United team is". He went on to call out midfielder Christian Eriksen, claiming he "should've left one or two years ago" adding "some can't run, some can but don't want to".

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"That's 14 league games they've lost now," he said on right after the final whistle. "We keep making excuses for this team. There are not enough players who can run in the team. I don't think there are players who want to run. Not enough of a goal threat. You've got to dig deep, even when you're up against it and they didn't do that in the second half.

"We spoke at half-time [about] the big test was to come in the second half. Looking at , they're outstanding, they're used to winning big games now, they've got into a really good habit. United are the opposite. I think United now are physically and mentally a weak team.

"Newcastle were too fast, too powerful, more determined. The pace they had up front, United couldn't deal with their attacking players and they got what they deserved. Well done Newcastle, they were outstanding but United... this talk before the game about there are good signs, they're getting better, well I can't see it and I just saw another poor performance, particularly in the second half and I worry for this group of players, to me they don't look like a strong group mentally."

Amorim came out swinging in his post-match interview, claiming he didn't care what pundits like Keane had to say, with his full focus now on the second leg of his side's quarter-final against Lyon on Thursday. "I understand the criticism, I don’t care," he told Sky Sports.

"Nothing is worse that losing games. People can say whatever they want to say. I don’t want to defend myself as if you look at our position in the table, it says it all. Thursday is really important so I don’t care what people say. Losing games is the hardest part of this job. We have a chance to get but it’s going to be really hard. We need to focus on that."

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