Manchester United vs Everton; 5 Talking Points

#4. Everton's abysmal gameplan, and execution, drop them into the relegation zone.

Koeman needs to find the perfect role for Rooney

Ronald Koeman's men came into the game with a plan to stifle United and failed within four minutes of the opening whistle. Sure it was down to one of those unstoppable moments of magic a certain breed of right-backs conjure up now and again, but in the opening ten-fifteen minutes, they could have gone 3-0 down and not had a reason to call it an unfair result.

They tried passing out of the back with three centre-backs distinctly uncomfortable with the thought (and with the thought of playing in a back three) and were miserably absent in the middle of the field - Morgan Schneiderlin's only contribution to the game was the penalty he gave away, while it took the manager subbing him out to realise that Idrissa Gueye was on the pitch.

With Rooney up top and Sigurdsson and Davies in support, the Toffees were left with an attack that had a combined top speed of 6 km/h.

Sandro's introduction - combined with Rooney dropping deeper - made Everton a distinctly better side and Koeman needs to find a way to incorporate his new signings into a system that actually works.

For a team that cost as much to assemble as Bayern Munich, 18th place after 5 games is simply not good enough.