It can’t be any more dramatic than this, surely. Zirkzee, in tears when hooked after half an hour in the defeat to Newcastle, had his best 30 minutes in a United shirt just a fortnight later to cap another helter-skelter afternoon under Ruben Amorim.
We grew familiar with Sir Alex Ferguson’s post-match references to United’s preternatural attachment to drama. Amorim is getting up to speed rapidly on an afternoon in which his team took the lead, then combusted.
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Read MoreThe transposing of wing backs Diogo Dalot and Noussair Mazraoui was designed to give United greater attacking impetus. Though Dalot played a part in United taking the lead, winning the header on the right that resulted in Alejandro Garnacho galloping free of Gabriel to set up Bruno Fernandes, it would all unravel around him.
There is still no knowing what to expect from this United team. They were spared to a degree by Arsenal’s own issues, a forward line almost as tepid as United’s. This had the feel of a World Cup opener between two fancied teams, a safety-first encounter, keep it tight, move on to the next game. Except there had to be a winner and a loser here.
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Read MoreAll we saw of Rasmus Hojlund in that opening half was a series of sprints across the Arsenal area as he attempted vaguely to shut down the play. One day he will charge about with like purpose to get on the end of a cross.
Nine minutes later Arsenal were level, and could have been ahead were it not for Bayindir’s heroics, nine minutes later, keeping out Martin Odegaard’s penalty.
For the neutral it made for classic post roast viewing, a contest finally living up to its billing. Arsenal piled forward. United resisted gamely to take the match to extra time, and ultimately to an unlikely victory.
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