In the bearpit of Bramall Lane Ole Gunnar Solskjaer selected a back three for the third time this season. It worked well against Liverpool and Chelsea but failed disastrously up against Chris Wilder’s Sheffield United.



The comeback from 2-0 down was genuinely stirring and the identity of each scorer as an academy product with an average age of under 20 added to the allure. This season 26 of United’s 27 goals have either been assisted or scored by a youth graduate.



Yet United did not hold on to win and there is no escaping the fact that for the majority of the game their performance was utterly dreadful.



At 3-2 up with 10 minutes left Solskjaer reacted to Wilder’s decision to replace a defender Chris Basham with an attacker Callum Robinson by sending on Axel Tuanzebe for Anthony Martial. Sheffield United accepted the invitation to take the initiative and dramatically and deservedly rescued a point.



So, make that two calls by...