The clouds have cleared and that sense of impending catastrophe which gripped Manchester United barely two weeks ago has gone.
Not since spring last year have they won three consecutive matches and though the chant that struck up near the end was for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, it is Erik ten Hag who has seen off the storm.
The win reveals as little, in the broader scheme of things, as any Premier League match can in early September, though it was a an exchange between two players in the team’s own box, as the second half wore on which told us something.