With ten minutes to go, Erik ten Hag stood on the touchline, no doubt thinking about the negative headlines that were coming his way as his team struggled to break down a Sheffield United team branded by some as one of the worst in Premier League history.
Before this match, Ten Hag had turned his ire on the media over their supposedly unfair coverage of Manchester United’s narrow FA Cup semi-final victory over Coventry City three days earlier, but there would have been no way of putting a positive spin on failing to beat the league’s bottom team.
Luckily for the Dutchman, Bruno Fernandes decided to change the course of history nine minutes from time by unleashing a beauty of a 25-yard shot that sailed
