As mismatches go, in purely aesthetic terms at least, you don’t find too many more extreme on a football pitch than this. The thin, wiry frame of teenage forward Tyrique George, throwing himself directly up against English football’s most famous mass in Harry Maguire. It was men vs boys stuff, and not far off literally so.
The thinking from Enzo Maresca, who handed winger George his first Premier League start and asked him to lead the Chelsea line, was presumably that the 19-year-old’s pace could exploit Maguire’s long-established weakness running back towards his own goal. With cover, though, from Luke Shaw and Victor Lindelof in Manchester United’s back-three, seldom did the space in behind open up for George to try.
