Centre-back Harry Maguire has called on his Manchester United teammates to “take responsibility” for the club’s poor form, as pressure mounts on head coach Erik ten Hag.

The former Leicester star became a hero for United this midweek after scoring a late equaliser to earn the Red Devils a valuable point against Porto in the Europa League.

Criticism had been heaped on United following their humiliating 3-0 home defeat to Tottenham just four days earlier, and Maguire now insists it is the players who should shoulder most of the blame for the Red Devils’ failures, not Ten Hag.

“It’s obviously not good enough,” he said. “As a footballer, it’s easy to blame others, blame your team-mates, blame the coaching staff or blame the tactics. You have to look at yourself.

We are the ones who go out there. We are the ones who defend. You have to take responsibility. Each of us has to do better in moments like this.

When we are under pressure, I feel like the team over the last year or so has been getting goals scored and that can’t happen. We have to be able to handle that pressure. There has to be better principles within the team. We have to push the tempo when defending in our own box better.”