Manchester City got a belated present when their neighbours and local rivals collapsed at home
MANCHESTER UNITED are suffering a mid-season crisis.
When a club as rich and successful as Jose Mourinho's side is celebrating a point at home against a club run on a budget as small as Burnley's, you know things are bad.
After losing the derby against runaway league leaders and bitter rivals Man City - and being knocked out of the Carabao Cup last week against Bristol City - this desperate late draw was a high point.
After the 2-2 disappointment at Leicester on Saturday, the Red Devils are now looking over their shoulders rather than up.
Boos were heard for the first time in Mourinho’s reign at Old Trafford yesterday.
Not loud, but audible.
Having conceded in the last minute of injury time to drop two points at Leicester they were behind inside the first three minutes here.
Johann Gudmundsson’s free-kick was not dealt with in the United box as Romelu Lukaku once again unwittingly assisted the opposition and Ashley Barnes fired home.
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It was two on 36 minutes when Ashley Young's foul on Scott Arfield saw a free kick given to the visitors 25 yards out.
Up stepped Steven Defour who curled an absolute belter into the top left corner.
United responded almost immediately and Marcus Rashford had a shot cleared off the line by Ben Mee.
Steven Defour whipped home this Burnley free-kick
The home side were then denied by an incredible save five minutes into the second period.
Young provided the cross and substitute Jesse Lingard’s point blank shot was parried up by Nick Pope’s outstretched hand.
The ball bounced on the bar twice before being hacked away.
Lingard quickly made up for that on 53 minutes.
Young was once again the supplier and Lingard allowed the ball to run through his legs before he flicked it with his right instep into the far corner.
United were back in the game but could not get a second until the first minute of injury time when Lingard grabbed his second and a point for United by firing a shot through a crowded penalty area and in.
