Manchester Evening News

UNITED RATED

- BY SAMUEL LUCKHURST

DAVID DE GEA

Kept United in it at 1-0 with five saves – some superb – but cracked by conceding softly to Bernardo Silva.

WAN-BISSAKA

A £50m flop on this showing. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had to tell him where to stand at one point. Dreadful postitioni­ng.

VICTOR LINDELOF

Passed a late fitness test and almost scored an own-goal but was not embarrasse­d as obviously as others.

ERIC BAILLY

Cracked within seven minutes by scoring a comical own-goal. Substitute­d at half-time as United changed to a back four.

HARRY MAGUIRE

Left in the mud a couple of times by City’s slickness and was unable to arrest his poor form.

LUKE SHAW

Created a chance for Cristiano Ronaldo but dithered for the second goal and was forced off with a head injury.

SCOTT MCTOMINAY

Shown up by better midfielder­s. McTominay needed too many touches and often ran out of time.

FRED

Similar to McTominay. Lacked the presence and slickness to ever trouble City. He was sarcastica­lly cheered off.

BRUNO FERNANDES

The ends often do not justify the means with Fernandes, regularly wasteful with the ball when it needed to be cherished.

MASON GREENWOOD

An aimless return to the starting XI. Never got going next to Ronaldo and was taken off for Rashford.

CRISTIANO RONALDO

His left-footed volley drew a save from Ederson but that was his only sighter as he was usually isolated.

SUBSTITUTI­ONS

JADON SANCHO (FOR BAILLY, 45): Brought some energy but did not truly test Kyle Walker. 5 MARCUS RASHFORD (FOR GREENWOOD 67,): Made no impact. 4

ALEX TELLES (FOR SHAW, 73): Replaced Shaw. 4

DONNY VAN DE BEEK (FOR FRED, 80): Lifted the crowd. 6

SUBS NOT USED: Martial, Lingard, Dalot, Henderson, Matic

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