“How does he even do that, at 18?” remarked one Manchester United coach after witnessing Kobbie Mainoo score a scintillating 97th-minute winner against Wolves back in February. “He is sat in the dressing room like it is nothing at all.”
United had seen a 3-1 lead on 85 minutes evaporate as Wolves pegged them back to 3-3 but, in the seventh minute of injury time, the Red Devils found their young saviour. Mainoo controlled the ball beautifully, danced past two defenders and finished calmly into the bottom corner to snatch the unlikeliest of 4-3 wins.
