It was entirely understandable that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer felt a lurching sense of deja vu four minutes into the action at Goodison Park.



An absurd opening where David De Gea brought a new meaning to laissez-faire to gift Dominic Calvert-Lewin a goal, only to then rouse himself into a superb save to stop the Everton striker scoring a second sent the mind back to this same scene on April 21 last year.



“The start was the worst possible one,” Solskjaer said after Sunday’s 1-1 draw. “You might think, ‘Here we go again’. If they had scored (twice), I would have been on the pitch.”



This fixture last season represented the nadir of Solskjaer’s reign, a 4-0 defeat where Manchester United’s faded pink shirts exemplified a pale performance. Prior to kick-off on Sunday he reflected on that day. “That was the lowest I’ve been,” he said. “That was a capitulation. We had absolutely nothing about...