Dominic Calvert-Lewin (left) fires home Leeds’ second-half equaliser

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Manchester United are like John Toshack’s duvet. You fix one problem – being far too vulnerable to conceding goals – only to create another – lacking the threat to score. It is all very Meh United not Man United . The indisputable fact is they are just not very entertaining to watch. They are slow and dull.

In the end it also points to another thing. The thing highlighted in midweek by Lisandro Martínez after the Champions League defeat at Atlético Madrid: they do not have the strength in depth to compete.

What they do have appears to not be fit for purpose. Certainly Michael Carrick, the under-pressure manager, is struggling to get the best out of the resources he has.

“It’s like a duvet,” Toshack, the former Real Madrid and Wales manager, famously said of football. “If you pull it up, your feet get cold.…