Man Utd 3-2 Burnley (Cullen OG 27′, Mbeumo 57′, Fernandes 90+7 | Foster 55′, Anthony 66′)

Let’s start by saying the bar is very much on the floor. When you get knocked out of a cup by a fourth division side, with £600m worth of players on the pitch, the only way is up.

What happened in Cleethorpes in midweek had Ruben Amorim thinking about quitting. It had him hating his players.

As he nervously paced up and down his technical area like he was awaiting his exam results in what was already a must-win game against newly promoted Burnley, Amorim looked every inch a manager teetering on the edge.

He needed a saviour, someone to instigate a spark in his talented group, to rouse them from their perennial ineptitude. Step forward Bryan Mbeumo.

Mbeumo represents something on a throwback sign

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