Gary Neville branded Manchester United’s lack of effort ‘an absolute disgrace’ after their insipid 1-1 draw against Fulham at Craven Cottage. Matheus Cunha’s deflected effort in the 89th minute rescued United from a third defeat in a week, but even the Brazilian admitted that his team didn’t try hard enough.United go into the international break in 12th place with five points – their joint-lowest total after five games of the season in the Premier League era.Former United defender Neville fumed on Sky Sports: ‘I rarely say teams don’t make an effort because that’s the ultimate criticism. That first 15 minutes of the second half, and generally the first 60 minutes, United were an absolute disgrace.‘I’ve watched Man United since the age of five and that’s the worst 15 minutes I’ve ever seen. Absolutely pathetic. I’ve never seen such a lack of effort.‘There needs to be a reset in terms of structure. They don’t want to do the ugly part of the game. Gary Neville branded Manchester United an ‘absolute disgrace’ for their perceived lack of effort during their 1-1 draw with Fulham Michael Carrick defended his men, who have made the joint-worst start to a season in the club’s Premier League history ‘I’ve never seen a Manchester United team walk as much as that. Michael (Carrick) needs to stop defending them.’If they carry on like that, they will concede so many goals week after week. They were lucky to concede one.’I just see apathy and ambling around the pitch. They can all work harder than that- they’re getting outrun in every match.’After Cunha scored a late equaliser – heavily deflected off David Affengruber – to cancel out a disastrous own-goal by team-mate Lisandro Martinez, the forward admitted that United only woke up once Fulham went ahead.‘In the second half it was like they put in more energy than us,’ he said. ‘We cannot accept this. We always play better after conceding a goal, and it cannot be like this.’In United’s defence, they came up against an inspired goalkeeper in Bernd Leno, who made five saves and won man of the match. Lisandro Martinez, Bryan Mbeumo, and Marcus Rashford were all denied by the German, while Bruno Fernandes and Cunha hit the post. Fulham’s opener was unfortunate but not undeserved, as Calvin Bassey’s shot comically deflected in off Lisandro Martinez and Senne Lammens. Manchester United had 25 shots but were accused of lacking defensive effort by Neville Goalscorer Matheus Cunha admitted that Fulham had ‘more energy’ than the Red DevilsCarrick attempted to defend his men at full time, telling Sky Sports: ‘We should have won the game, we created enough. We had a lot of good play. The goal that we did concede is one of them goals.’The boys could’ve thought it was one of those days and that it went against us, but I really liked the reaction. We nearly won it at the end.’We came to get the win, the way the game has panned out and the reaction is the positive we take from it.’Their goalkeeper, the saves that he’s made, he’s made three top saves, arguably man of the match. That tells you how much we worked him. We hit the post twice and had a lot of opportunities. There’s things to take from it.’I don’t think we were (passive). Do you think we were passive?’Told that his team didn’t have any shots in the first 15 minutes of the second half, he hit back: ‘That doesn’t mean we were passive. It’s the Premier League, you’re going to have spells where you don’t have it all your own way.’Asked if he was satisfied with his team’s energy levels, Carrick said: ‘Yeah.’He added: ‘We can take a lot and learn a lot from today. We need to be better and we will be.’ Fulham boss Alvaro Arbeloa was denied his first Premier League win, and accused referee Peter Bankes of favouring United.‘There were so many things for them,’ said Arbeloa. ‘Every decision was for them. I knew after the game against Manchester City that they (referees) don’t like Manchester United to lose.‘We were so, so close to our first victory that we are a little bit upset now.’