Manchester United's third Premier League outing of the season saw them travel to face David Moyes' Everton at the Hill Dickinson Stadium. Michael Carrick stuck with the same XI that thrashed Ipswich Town 5-2, with Bruno Fernandes hitting the bar early on.

United continued to create opportunities without finding the breakthrough, while Everton also had their moments. Just 53 seconds into the second half, Bryan Mbeumo broke the deadlock with a superb run and finish to put United ahead.

The hosts eventually found their equaliser through Tyrique George, who unleashed a powerful effort past Senne Lammens with fewer than 10 minutes remaining. United responded almost immediately, with Luke Shaw's superb delivery finding Benjamin Šeško to restore their advantage.

However, United's lead would not last until the final whistle, as Ainsley Maitland-Niles produced a stunning strike in stoppage time to earn Everton a point, with the contest ending 2-2.

United have conceded two goals in each of their first three fixtures this season, making it only the second time this has happened in the last 50 years.

There was a lot of focus on the fact that the Reds did not sign anyone to strengthen their defence last summer, with it being widely noted that not signing a left-back to cover for the injury-prone Shaw could be a grave error.

Speaking on his podcast after the full-time whistle, former United defender Gary Neville was quick to point out that the side are on track to concede a mammoth number of goals, and that he has a worry about if this can be fixed.

"Manchester United are conceding two goals a game," he said on the Gary Neville Podcast. "From a United perspective, you can't concede two goals a game; they're on track to concede 76 goals.

'They won't do, but the one thing that I think needed to happen beyond the transfer window, with the questions that have been asked about the defence, was that Manchester United needed to win today, and secondly, they couldn't concede goals."

Neville used Everton's late equaliser as an example of the problems United face, singling out three players—Patrick Dorgu, Andrey Santos, and Leny Yoro—all of whom had chances to stop the goal before the shot was taken, but poor decisions saw otherwise.

"That last goal is a really bad one," Neville continued. "There's a lot that happens before that goal goes in the back of Manchester United's net. When you're playing against a team, it's 2-1, you're away, you've got to push up, you've got to make sure you don't have players sprinting off and doing stupid things.

"Dorgu sprints forward, the ball gets played past him, and Everton just drift down that left side so easily. Santos doesn't get across, and when he doesn't get across quickly enough, Yoro is deep and narrow, almost playing like a third or fourth narrow centre back waiting for the ball to go into the box.

"So they could have stopped it at source. That to me is a real error in the lead-up, and I was screaming as it happened because, you know, full well you're going to get the ball pumped into the box and you're going to get a team behind desperate in the last few minutes, so you have to make sure you're organised, and United weren't organised in that last couple of minutes."

There has also been a significant amount of blame directed at goalkeeper Senne Lammens, with some feeling he should not have been beaten at the near post by George's effort, or that he should have tried to dive to save the second.

But the reality is that a lot of goals Lammens concedes are unsavable efforts, which often point to a lack of organisation ahead of him, allowing players to feel they can have a pop.

As Neville alluded to above, there were several actions from outfield players in the build-up to Everton's last-minute equalising effort that could have stopped the shot from coming in the first place, and this is what must be worked on in training.

While United's defensive line will have questions hanging over them for the whole season, the whole team as a unit, from the front line through to the midfield and those at the back, must work together to proactively stop attacks, rather than react to them.