Ryan Giggs says players to blame for poor performance not David Moyes

Ryan Giggs has said the Manchester United players are to blame for the teams poor performance, not manager David Moyles.

Giggs says the squad have to take responsibility for their poor results this season.

The reigning champions have lost more Premier League games than they have won, the low point arriving last weekend with a 2-1 home defeat by West Brom.

David Moyes took over as manager at Old Trafford in July, taking over from Sir Alex Ferguson who spent more than 26 years at the club.

“Sir Alex was a great manager and a great influence on the team and the club,” said Giggs.

“You are going to miss someone like that. But I don’t think that is an excuse when individuals aren’t playing as well as they can. We are not playing well as a team.

“We haven’t got injury problems as we have had in the past. There is no excuse.

“It hasn’t been a great start to the season but the good thing about that is we have plenty of time to turn it round.

“We know what this club is like, it is ups and downs and we don’t get carried away if we are flying and we don’t get carried away when we are not playing well.

“I can’t put my finger on what has happened. We have just not played as well as we can, both individually and as a team.

“The results have shown we haven’t played as well as we can do. But we know the quality in there in the dressing room.

“We’re the champions so we showed that quality last year and we have to show it again.”

United head to Sunderland on Saturday on the back of their worst start to a domestic campaign since 1989 and, should they get beaten at the Stadium of Light, it will be the first time they have lost three successive league games since 2001.