"United must learn from setback"

Darren Fletcher says it is important for Manchester United to bounce back quickly from the shock draw at Goodison Park.

Going into injury-time, United were leading 3-1 and seemed to have successfully navigated a tricky encounter against David Moyes' Everton.

However, goals from Tim Cahill and Mikel Arteta in the dying minutes of the game left United ruing two points dropped yet again. Worryingly, this was the second successive Premier League match in which United had let slip a lead late in the game.

Two weeks ago they were forced to settle for a draw against Fulham after leading 2-1 in stoppage time. Fletcher feels this trend must be bucked soon.

In comments reported by MUTV, he said: "It's desperately disappointing. We were 3-1 up at 90 minutes... [to draw from that position ] is not what's expected at United.

All we can do now is learn from it - that's the biggest thing. The same happened to us at Fulham and this shows we haven't learned from that. We really have to do that now and see games out when we're in a winning position. United had initally gone a goal down after a strike from Steven Pienaar but roared back with three goals to make themselves favourites for three points.

"It was important we scored straight away and went into half-time at 1-1," said Fletcher. At that point we would have been the happier team. Then we came out in the second half, played some good football and got ourselves into a good position. We started the second half the way we should do - we passed the ball around and took our chances. We were in control of the game.

Once they got that second goal it gave the whole place a lift. You can't give teams like Everton any sort of confidence - it gives them hope and then they threw men into the box for the last minute, which they wouldn't have done at 3-1. Teams like Everton play until the final whistle and they proved that today. If we don't defend right as a team we're going to get punished. The biggest thing, though, is that we learn from today and don't let it happen again. The Red Devils next face a massive clash against Liverpool at Old Trafford on Sunday, September 19.