And the moral to this story? Not every team is Brighton, Southampton, Newcastle or West Ham. Sooner or later, Manchester United were going to hand a head start to a team who were good enough to hold it.
RB Leipzig were, just. United pulled two back late and Nordi Mukiele almost put one into his own net in injury time, which would have sent them through, but no team gets that lucky, that often. United had already benefitted from a soft penalty and a possible handball in the build-up to the second, so to get a third courtesy of a panicking full back would have been too good to be true. Which it was.
Undoubtedly, the best team won. United’s comeback came about because they were chasing the game from one minute and 50 seconds when Leipzig took the lead. They were two up after 13 minutes and three clear after 69.
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