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Manchester United escaped from the Stadium of Light with a fortunate point after a 0-0 draw against Sunderland on Saturday.<\/p>\n
It was a poor performance from a heavily rotated side, but a point on the road against a spirited Black Cats will go down as a decent result in the end.<\/p>\n
This was the Red Devils\u2019 first stalemate of the season, and they had Senne Lammens to thank for keeping the scores level at the end of the 90 minutes.<\/p>\n
The Belgian pulled off multiple great saves as the hosts swarmed all over the visitors, with the midfield being cut open time and again.<\/p>\n
Michael Carrick made five changes as he looked to give minutes to fringe players, including handing rare starts to Mason Mount and Joshua Zirkzee.<\/p>\n
Both looked slow and off the pace and were lucky not to get hooked at half-time.<\/p>\n
With the Red Devils expected to strengthen all over the pitch in the summer, plenty of player sales will be expected.<\/p>\n
And INEOS need to be ruthless and both the Englishman and Dutchman demonstrated they are simply not good enough to make the grade at United<\/span>.<\/p>\n The former Chelsea ace\u2019s injury record is nothing to write home about, and he was wasted in midfield, where Carrick decided to play him on Saturday with Casemiro earning a breather.<\/p>\n The United No.7 is far more effective as an attacking midfielder, a position currently occupied by Bruno Fernandes, who is unlikely to relinquish his spot any time soon.<\/p>\n As for Zirkzee, his distinct lack of pace has always been an eyesore, and he lacked sharpness, probably as a result of his lack of minutes.<\/p>\n But a lack of effort cannot be excused, and that is exactly what the Netherlands international offered. Despite being a big physical presence, he rarely won any duels.<\/p>\n The ex-Bologna ace would like to stay, but an amicable exit looks like the best solution for both parties.<\/p>\n With Champions League qualification secured, and third-place finish looking likely, United probably will not fret too much over today\u2019s result.<\/p>\n However, it served as a wake-up call for the co-owners and Carrick regarding the players they cannot trust moving forward.<\/p>\n Feature image George Wood via Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n The Peoples Person has been one of the world\u2019s leading Man United news sites for over a decade. Follow us on Bluesky: @peoplesperson.bsky.social<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 64 Manchester United escaped from the Stadium of Light with a fortunate point after a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}They failed to make it count<\/h5>\n
Time for INEOS to sell Mason Mount and Joshua Zirkzee<\/h5>\n