Bruno Fernandes was not the only Manchester United player suffering in the August heat and bristling at an unplanned run less than 24 hours after the generational nadir of Brentford.
"Why do we have to do it like this?" Fernandes harrumphed. It was on that run that Fernandes glanced behind him and saw an incongruous figure pacing among the players: Erik ten Hag.
"When a manager does the punishment - because that's what you have to call it, it was a punishment," Fernandes recalls, "obviously it makes us feel he knows he was part of that bad result and he wants to make us understand we are together on this in a good way, in a bad way, in the good moments and in the bad moments.
