Wanted... but he to be proud of
ent, it seems a strange thing to say, but they have not always been overly adventurous.
But with his trust in the full-backs strengthening all the time, Solskaer’s approach is becoming far easier on the eye, far closer to the United ways he knows so well.
And in Cavani (left), he has a centre-forward very much in Old Trafford traditions.
Pretty lethal.
Solskjaer seemed to be a little sluggish in putting his faith in such an established operator but maybe he was just getting him accustomed to the hurly-burly of the Premier League.
He need not have been worried on that score. Cavani was always going to cope.
English football has a tendency towards insularity and Cavani has always been a superstar that many here did not quite get.
It was the same with Zlatan Ibrahimovic until he strutted his stuff with United and Cavani is treading a similar path.
He is an outstanding all-round forward and one of the best headers of a ball in recent times.
It helps when you have the sort of delivery provided by Rashford for the opener – but it also helps when you can read the game as well as the Uruguayan is able to.
And it helps when you have great technique.
In Cavani and Fernandes they have two different operators with equally brilliant technique.
The nonchalance before, during and after the Fernandes hit was, indeed, pure Cantona. But maybe that nonchalance spread through the ranks, to ill effect.
Maybe the swagger became complacency as, first, David de Gea presented Abdoulaye Doucoure with a tap-in and then the entire defence stood and watched James Rodriguez laser in a leftfooted equaliser.
Maybe this United team is not good enough to get too cocksure.
But while they were too easily exposed in the second half here – allowing Dominic Calvert-Lewin to snatch a point after Scott McTominay had restored the United lead – they continued to produce attacking combinations that suggested Solskjaer is slowly developing a unit that will do its best to honour the history and traditions so poignantly relevant to this emotional day.