They'll be back.
Maybe not this season. Eleven points behind Arsenal with a game in hand for the Gunners is some gap to wipe out. But Erik ten Hag and his Manchester United players will bounce back from this, their first defeat in any competition since October and the end of their ten-match unbeaten run.
And in the end they really did miss Casemiro. Scott McTominay hoofing it is no substitute for the Brazilian’s ability to find a team-mate with a considered pass.
