Great escape? No. United players did this for themselves ...not for Mourinho
Pleading with him, looking as though he was about to burst into tears at any moment.
Not just with Martial, but with them all, every one of the insanely-paid underachievers who had produced one of the worst halves of United football seen at Old Trafford for some considerable time.
They responded, even those slighted by Jose Mourinho over these recent, turbulent times.
Did they do it for Jose? You doubt it. Not a chance, in fact.
They did it for their own professional pride because such was the poverty of their first-half performance, it would actually have been hard to blame Mourinho had United not steamed back for this unlikely win.
This comeback triumph does not scream all is well between Mourinho and his players – it suggests that these United players have been stung by criticism, it says they have, after all, got a ferocity of desire.
That is what brought back them back into the game after an opening that was so shocking, it was startling.
There were cameos throughout this match that betrayed the rotten dynamic between Mourinho and his players.
Soon after Yoshinori Muto had doubled Newcastle’s lead, there was an easily-missed cameo by the technical area.
Marcus Rashford was in the vicinity and Mourinho actually encroached, eyes blazing, hands held out in quizzical anger
Rashford simply ignored him, pretended he was not there, made as if his manager was just another punter in the crowd.
When Rashford was replaced by Alexis Sanchez midway through the second half, Mourinho turned his back on him. It does not take a body language