Manchester United great Denis Irwin has drawn on his own experience of how the players can recover from Sunday's 7-0 embarrassment at Liverpool.
The Irishman, one of the finest defenders of his generation, pointed to the way Alex Ferguson's team recovered from heavy losses to Newcastle United and Southampton in 1996 in order to achieve their objectives, winning the title that season, as a way in which everybody must be honest about what went wrong on the day, and come back stronger as a unit.
"Well, I think it's down to the manager and staff and the leaders within that team to accept what happened, happened," he told manutd.com. "We lost 5-0 to Newcastle and, the following week, we got beat 6-3 at Southampton but we went back to win the league that season. It's one of those things. It's horrible and not the nicest place to go, against your biggest rivals, and we were probably the most confident going into a game at Anfield in the last six or seven years with the way the manager has turned us around this season.
"We've been so resilient and hard to beat, had a lot of comebacks and been in fine form, scoring goals for fun. It's one of those where they go in tomorrow and, if I was manager, I'd walk them down to a greasy caf and let them have whatever they want and take it from there. Make sure we're in it together. I'd just say: listen, you've done brilliant and been on a hell of a run, we won the cup last Sunday, here we are a week later, getting a 7-0 beating. That's football. We just have to accept it wasn't our day.
"If you looked at the start of the season, you'd hope for a trophy and a top-four finish. The results below us went for us on Saturday, Spurs and Newcastle lost, and we must still focus on the top four and pick ourselves up. Southampton is the next league game, at home, and it's a big game for us next Sunday."