The delight of the win spilled over into the morning after, with Harry Maguire — a man with few grounds for mirth recently — explaining how he’d photoshopped the face of a Leeds-supporting friend into an image of his goal celebration because he’d been ‘giving us some stick all week’.
Scott McTominay Instagrammed images of stud marks on his ankle. David de Gea said, ahead of flying out to face Atletico Madrid in the city of his birth, that he doesn’t see himself being anywhere other than Manchester. He has not always felt that way.
But the fourth place that Manchester United occupy is fragile and deeply deceptive.