Manchester United appeared to be ending their two-week summer tour of Thailand and Australia with victory and a perfect record of four wins from four before David de Gea went missing at a corner in injury time and Calum Chambers crashed home an equaliser for Aston Villa.
Thus a two-goal half-time lead in Perth had been let slip and Erik ten Hag was clear he will use this as a reality check. “That’s what I just said in the dressing room,” said the manager. “A drop of focus is unacceptable but before the season I’m happy because now I can tell them it cannot happen. We have to get out of the dressing room and back in our plan [after half-time] and that is what we didn’t do.”
