Brentford and Manchester United drew 1-1 after both sides scored deep into stoppage time, Kristoffer Ajer cancelling out Mason Mount’s strike
, and they are still dismal. A 1-1 draw hardly tells the story of the game. Brentford had 31 shots, four of which hit the woodwork. They didn’t score until Kristoffer Ajer equalised in the ninth minute of injury time, by which point they were mystifyingly behind, but really by then they should have won almost as comfortably as they did in this fixture last season.
There were long spells when United were second-best in that game but they had the spirit and resilience to hang in and find a win. It’s far too early to know whether history will remember that as a turning point or a last flailing of a fading beast, at least before a change of manager.
Against a more confident or more fortunate Brentford, this could have been a defeat of similar magnitude. The chances kept on coming and kept on somehow not going in. André Onana made a remarkable double save from Yehor Yarmolyuk and Keane Lewis-Potter but mostly this was a tale of shots flashing just wide or hitting the frame of the goal.
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