Diogo Dalot scored the kind of goal that Sir Bobby Charlton plundered by the barrel-load in his Manchester United days, and it settled an absorbing muck-and-nettles contest against struggling Sheffield United.
It’s no secret that United have slipped some distance from the days of Sir Bobby – many fans would now accept far less than the heights he scaled in his heyday – but the death of Manchester United’s greatest ever player cast a long shadow over this fixture, after the news broke four hours before kick-off.
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