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Brentford 4-3 Manchester United (Shaw OG 27′, Schade 33, 70′, Wissa 74′ | Mount 14′, Garnacho 82′, Diallo 90+5′)

GTECH COMMUNITY STADIUM — For the second time in three seasons, Manchester United conceded four goals in defeat to Brentford, but this time their supporters didn’t seem to mind too much.

After Yoane Wissa put the Bees 4-1 up in the 74th minute, the chant “Follow, follow, follow, United are going to Bilbao” was belted out continuously from the away end until the final whistle. It’s an earworm, alright.

Perhaps it was a “if you don’t laugh [or sing], you’ll cry” situation. United have no business being this bad, and yet this has become their status quo.

The formidable force that dominated English football in the nineties and noughties is long gone. United are 15th in the Premier League table and have lost 16 times, their worst total in 25 years.

Still, late goals from Alejandro Garnacho and Amad Diallo gave a veneer of respectability to what was generally another shambolic display.

United have only won two of their last 12 league fixtures, and yet Ruben Amorim was probably largely content with the outcome, with his side scoring three excellent goals and key players given a breather.

The Portuguese hadn’t exactly concealed his plans to hit the rotate button, saying pre-match that his focus was on “saving players” for the visit of Athletic Bilbao on Thursday. For now, the Premier League’s most successful club view the competition as an inconvenience.

The team he selected was the third-youngest in Premier League history, with an average age of 22 years and 270 days and included three teenagers: Tyler Fredricson, Harry Amass and Chido Obi.

Domestic matches have been reduced to damage limitation exercises, and this one wasn’t particularly successful, with Matthijs de Ligt suffering a serious-looking injury that Amorim admitted was a major worry.

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United were not set up to win, merely to try. Amorim used 15 outfield players at the Gtech and none of them were Bruno Fernandes, which showed how seriously he took the assignment.

In-form Brentford, chasing a European spot, sensed that. Bryan Mbeumo and Wissa have both had superb campaigns and would each walk into this United team, but neither was on their A-game. It hardly mattered, with others stepping up to make the difference.

United took the lead against the run of play. Mark Flekken and Nathan Collins both committed errors in the build-up, but the visitors still had plenty to do and executed the goal with surgical precision.

Garnacho played a give-and-go with Kobbie Mainoo and then lashed a low ball across the face of goal, where Mason Mount slid in to make the telling contact. It was ruthless, clinical football that Amorim hopes to see more of next season.

Then came four unanswered Brentford goals. An unfortunate Luke Shaw own goal from a Mikkel Damsgaard prod; a headed Kevin Schade double at the back post; a tap-in for Wissa that takes him to 18 for the campaign, level with Mbeumo.

At that point, things were quickly becoming embarrassing for United. It was an ugly scoreline that justified the suspicions that everyone had before kick-off: that United would lose heavily.

That they didn’t was down to Garnacho and Amad, two young players making a difference and providing bursts of hope that the future will be more profitable than the present.

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Garnacho’s goal was a peach, bent into the top corner wickedly from 25 yards out. The Argentine is wildly inconsistent, but there is no doubting the potential. Whether it is harnessed by Amorim remains to be seen, with Antonio Conte’s Napoli circling.

Amad is destined for a big role, now and for years to come, with Amorim hailing his return to fitness as “massive”.

The winger penned a new contract in the winter and has been, Fernandes aside, United’s standout player under Amorim, despite a three-month injury lay-off.

His strike caught Mark Flekken off guard, but he injected a sense of danger and purpose into United’s play after coming on.

It was a day that showed how far this squad and club are from Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City. Winning the Europa League would merely be a sticking plaster.

There is, though, young talent in this squad that can flourish in a more stable environment with higher-quality teammates around them.

Until then, expect to see more of the same when the weekends roll around.

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