Richarlison was on the left wing, juggling the ball on his head like a performing seal. Meanwhile, Manchester United stood and watched. So did their interim manager. Ralf Rangnick arrived with a reputation as the godfather of gegenpressing but it was hard to imagine a team coached by his fellow evangelists, whether Jurgen Klopp or Mauricio Pochettino, Ralph Hasenhuttl or Marcelo Bielsa, being so passive. They would have hassled and harried.
But then United have never looked a Rangnick team. Perhaps they never could, given the illogical element of selecting a strategist defined by a collectivist ethos to manage a bunch of individuals ill-equipped to press, with a surfeit of supposed stars and too few selfless workers.
