Robin van Persie has revealed that Louis van Gaal’s Manchester United squad held a clear-the-air meeting following their dramatic 5-3 defeat at Leicester City last weekend.

The Dutch striker said the confrontational hour-long inquest focused on the defensive errors that allowed Nigel Pearson’s newly promoted side to score four goals in the final 28 minutes at the King Power Stadium.

“It shouldn’t be possible,” the Dutchman told Fox Sports News. “But it still happened. We have to deal with it. We had a proper look at it next day. Sometimes it was a bit confronting and it was a long meeting. One hour [or] something.

“We went from there, started again this week [and have put] a couple of really good sessions in. Everyone feels ready to face West Ham.”

Van Persie headed United into the lead against Leicester from a Radamel Falcao cross and says that the pair and Wayne Rooney have been discussing how to make their three-man partnership work. But he admits everyone must play better if United are to make themselves title contenders once again.

“When you look at the defensive mistakes, it starts somewhere else,” he added. “That’s where we looked at as well. It’s not just the one mistake which happens. There’s a mistake before the mistake and before the mistake, maybe positional wise. Everyone knows where we have to improve.”