MANCHESTER, England -- Manchester United can still do late drama.
A game they should have lost ended in a 2-1 victory over Villarreal thanks to a winner deep into stoppage time from Cristiano Ronaldo.
It was one of those nights when United's No.7 seemed so much on the periphery that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer could have substituted him at any point during the second half.
He will be glad he didn't.
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With the 36-year-old on the pitch, you never know and with one swipe of his right boot in the fifth minute of injury time, a night that threatened to end in boos was bookended with chants of "Viva Ronaldo".