With Atalanta 2-1 up and the ball hurtling towards him from another of those ominous line-breaking passes, Harry Maguire stood off Duvan Zapata.
The ball was in play and if tactical time-outs existed Eric Bailly would have called one. He spread his arms out in disbelief at Maguire’s refusal to engage Zapata, the Manchester United captain clearly still spooked by the Colombian outpacing him earlier.
Tottenham was not just a false dawn for the United manager. A clean sheet against a neutered Harry Kane is an inaccurate gauge of a defender’s form and Maguire also had his hand held by Raphael Varane.
It was not a coincidence he was more exposed with Varane off the pitch in Bergamo. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s decision to switch to a back four in
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