H?jlund rescues point for Manchester United to deny 10-man Bournemouth

Better days must lie ahead for Manchester United. Otherwise, things have gone truly pear-shaped. A Sunday where their fans lived vicariously through dreams of Tottenham delaying Liverpool?s title celebrations or Nottingham Forest stopping City winning another FA Cup counts as a ground-zero ebb, even considering the decline and fall of the United empire. Losing against a 10-man Bournemouth would have completed an air of helpless, listless doom, only for Rasmus H?jlund to rescue a barely believable ? or deserved ? point.
Reports of Ruben Amorim playing the kids ahead of Athletic Club on Thursday had proved exaggerated. Beyond the absentees Joshua Zirkzee and Diogo Dalot, the selection was as strong as can be expected from the Frankenstein-like horror of United?s bolted-together squad.
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