How much longer? After the 5-0 humiliation against
Liverpool, this was another Theatre of Screams occasion for Ole Gunnar Solskjær, another big game when the gap to the very best yawned like a chasm, when his
Manchester United team were an incoherent mess.
There was no evidence of an attacking plan – Ederson was a virtual bystander in Manchester City’s goal. There were no options, no movement, no direction. And, at the end of it all, after City had played in second gear throughout the second half, having done their damage before the interval, it was impossible not to wonder how the United hierarchy could continue to tolerate it, how Solskjær can remain as the manager.