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Anthony Martial's petulance and half-hearted efforts cost Manchester United in Newcastle defeat... while Paul Pogba was a lost boy throughout

Anthony Martial wears a suspicious look of disinterest at the best of times. Here, during Sunday's 1-0 defeat at Newcastle, his body language left you in little doubt.

Shifted from left to right since the arrival of Alexis Sanchez last month, if Martial wanted to make a point about his unhappiness at being uprooted from his preferred position then he did it with perfect petulance.

There was one second-half chase - with the odds 60-40 in his favour - where Martial simply withdrew from the foot race with Paul Dummett. For a split-second he reached for the back of his leg, but it was heart and not hamstring the issue here.