It would have been fun for them to have lost at home 2-0, but no matter. The grand scheme of things is that – more than any other manager they've had since Ferguson – Solskjaer is a sustained exercise in papering over the cracks, and this is just the most recent example of that. Long may it continue. They won not a single trophy last season, but it was ‘acceptable’, because it would ‘set them up for a title challenge next season’. Little by little, and without particularly noticing it, they are slipping into the Arsenal position of eight years ago or so. That getting top four was acceptable.
We are streets aheads of them, both as a team, and as a club. Streets. If we're not champions, it'll be Liverpool most probably. And if not them, Chelsea.