Erik ten Hag showed his managerial smarts via two substitutions that saved Manchester United from a second humiliation in four days. Losing at the interval, the Dutchman then brought on Marcus Rashford and later Anthony Martial and they scored the goals that turned embarrassing defeat into Group E victory.
Nothing, though, can hide the faultlines in Ten Hag’s team which are hardly news: no discernible possession-based attack patterns and a defence that is amateurish as illustrated by Karim Ansarifard’s breakaway opener.