#2 United will be a threat from set pieces
Although the goal eventually came from open play, the closest United got to making the Luhansk net bulge was through corners, with Marcus Rashford rattling the underside of the crossbar with a thunderous shot, and Marouane Fellaini threatening the roof of the net with a header that ended up bouncing just over the goal.
If scoring 3 goals in a match from set pieces can be considered slightly anomalous – as United did against Leicester this past weekend – the constant threat that they posed from corners against Luhansk, however, did nothing to dispel that notion today.
It also laid out a marker for the rest of the season; that for a team possessing ariel powerhouses like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Paul Pogba, Marouane Fellaini, Chris Smalling and Eric Bailly, a goal is just one whipped cross from a set-piece away.
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