Manchester United’s crazy comeback was inspirational – and a reality check
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Bedlam, pandemonium, ecstasy and simply wow: Manchester United’s three-goal, six-minute (and 34 seconds) blockbuster extra-time comeback from 4-2 down is one for the ages, and a thrilling advertisement for the heart-stopping drama football can generate.Yet if the Harry Maguire header that KO’d Lyon was a last, heroic act of a pell-mell, childhood-like jumpers-for-goalposts victory, it should also clang alarm bells for the fragile unit Ruben Amorim oversees, and cause a serious reality check.Amorim to play youngsters in Premier League as United focus on EuropeRead moreBecause streaked through the 5-4 Europa League quarter-final win (7-6 on aggregate) was the latest United collapse provoked by amateurish defending that had Lyon drawing level in the second half from two goals down, then leading 4-2 in the 109th minute with 10 men, after Corentin Tolisso’s sending off in regulation time.Here we see the chaos of Amorim-ball that has scant structure and is akin to the continent’s supposed ri...