Louis van Gaal blasted his Manchester United side for showing an apparent lack of motivation against Everton on Sunday.

The Red Devils were beaten 3-0 by the Toffees at Goodison Park, making it two defeats in a row, with their heaviest loss under van Gaal.

After the match, in which James McCarthy, John Stones and Kevin Mirallas scored, van Gaal spoke of United's shortcomings in desire and willingness to win throughout the contest.

"This is the first match that the other team have shown more fighting spirit than us," van Gaal said.

"Our motivation, inspiration and aggression was not as high as the opponent.

"I had already the feeling and my colleagues (assistants) Ryan Giggs and Albert Stuivenberg had the feeling because the warm-up was not so good as usual.

"In the last minutes before the game you hope you can recover and stimulate your players but then it is too late.

"You have to prepare the match already two or three days before and Everton has done that and they have won because of that.

"When you see the goal after four minutes, three duels in a row we lost and that is an example.

"I hope it shall not happen again but as a coach I know it shall happen again."