Jamie Jackson has filed his match report from the ground, which is my cue to go for a walk round the block and try to work out what on earth just happened. Football, bloody hell.
Thanks for your company and correspondence, and sorry I couldn’t get through much of it – there were far too many goals being scored.
Rashford isn't injured after all
Asked why he took Rashford off, Ten Hag springs a surprise. “We have to rotate,” he says. “Garnacho has to play.. We have a tough game on Sunday [at Villa Park] and we need players fresh.”
Yes, but … Rashford was playing his best football for 18 months. Just as it was bizarre to leave him out at Crystal Palace after he’d scored three goals in two games, so it was weird not to give him another 20 minutes here. He was terrifying his full-back.
