Mason Mount was sacrificed as Manchester United s best player and Matthijs de Ligt did an excellent Harry Maguire impression. Erik ten Hag is faced with one impossible conundrum and an easy fix that should have been sorted already.
It was a good but speculative ball into the box from Joao Pedro and both Harry Maguire and Noussair Mazraoui had the chance to deal with that first cross and the resulting drilled pass by Kaoru Mitoma that Danny Welbeck got his studs on to direct into the net.
The TV cameras predictably focused on Maguire and his typically bewildered expression and of course it was him who bore the brunt of the criticism on social media, from fans insisting that Eric Dier s understudy watching from the bench is the answer. If it s awareness, leadership and p…