By this point, there's very little which can be freshly deduced from Man Utd's results. Once again Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty box brilliance spared his side's blushes in an imperfect Champions League victory over Atalanta.
Ole Gunnar Solksjaer's tactical blind spots were evident yet again, as Atalanta's wing-back system exposed United in the first half in a very similar fashion to how Leicester manufactured their victory over the Old Trafford side at the weekend.
But as the pressure mounts on Solskjaer's position, as the point of no return seems to inch closer, his players dig that little bit deeper, almost running that extra yard. There appears no depths that Man Utd can sink to which these players cannot engineer the solution for.
As the groans reverberated around Old Trafford following Merih Demiral's header to double Atalanta's advantage, that very point of no return for Solskjaer seemed to be hurtling towards Old Trafford. The fans grumbled loudly when Scott McTominay elected to pass backwards in a moment just past the half hour mark, and it was only the recency of Marcus Rashford's 44th minute chance which quelled some of the jeers on the blow of the half time whistle.
Man Utd weren't dismal in the opening period, but the manner of the goals they conceded - exposed by the second wing-back system inside a week - suggested that the ill-feeling surrounding the club had begun to finally grip the players.
