Whilst he waited for his transfer to be finalised, Raphael Varane requested clips of Manchester United's porous defending at set-pieces from the 2020-21 season.
United sieved 18 goals from dead-ball situations and that figure nosedived to six last season. Varane was only on the pitch for Aston Villa defender Kortney Hause's winner (for which Edinson Cavani was caught on his heels) and Brentford's consolation.
In an injury-plagued season, Varane was complicit in United's worst defensive campaign since 1978-79. It was not a coincidence he was absent for the minimum four-goal shellackings by Leicester, Liverpool (twice), Watford and Leicester but Varane became tainted in the worst of the lot at Brighton.
