Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was disappointed with Manchester United’s display against Bournemouth (Picture: Getty)

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was critical of his Manchester United side after their defeat to Bournemouth and hit out at his players by suggesting he should have picked a different team.

A fine individual goal from Josh King on the stroke of half-time handed Bournemouth the lead and they held on pretty comfortably to secure an impressive victory.

United had come into the game in good form following three successive victories but they were well below-par at the Vitality Stadium with a number of players delivering disappointing performances.

The result means United have taken only 13 points from their opening 11 Premier League matches and Solskjaer acknowledged that his team lacked quality.

Josh King scored the only goal of the game at the Vitality Stadium (Picture: Getty)

‘We’re disappointed,’ Solskjaer said. ‘When you get to places like this you have to take control of the game. We started really well first 15 minutes but then there was a lack of quality and we couldn’t get a goal.

‘The first goal was always going to be important. Every time you concede a goal it’s a bad goal to give away but it’s a bit of magic that wins the game, you’ve got to say that.

‘Maybe I should’ve started a couple of others, who knows?’

The strength and depth of United’s squad has been questioned at times this season after Ander Herrera, Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez were all allowed to leave in the summer without being replaced.

Although some of United’s players appeared to be lacking sharpness against Bournemouth, Solskjaer refused to blame fatigue for the defeat,

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Solskjaer added: ‘We started the game well, so I don’t think that was the case. Wednesday night, Saturday early. We lacked quality at times.

‘If you want to be challenging for the top four you have to be winning games like this. We’re disappointed [but] we’ve got a game on Thursday against Partizan and we can make sure we go through and then we play Brighton before the international break.’