Football can often be turned into a game of statistics in the modern era, but the xG numbers attached to Manchester United's goalmouth scramble in the first half at St Mary's would have told you a goal was a certainty.
The numbers do sometimes lie and so it proved in this instance as Bruno Fernandes (twice), Anthony Elanga and Christian Eriksen all conspired to leave the Southampton net alone.
Fernandes looked poised to score with his head and his feet but missed both chances. Elanga had a simple task to convert the rebound but failed and from the centre of goal Eriksen found a blocker rather than an empty part of the goal.
