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Manchester United are currently in an unwanted surrender mode, this being a second, second-half abdication of responsibility in two matches. It is, patently, not good enough and there is an oddity to elite players of the ilk of Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw, Raphaël Varane, Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes being unable to kill off an opponent who are last in the standings and who trailed at half-time.Yet, as against Middlesbrough, the plot was lost in the contest’s second 45 minutes. Burnley ended with a precious point that was handed to them by weak defending for the Jay Rodriguez strike that cancelled out Pogba’s opener, and by United’s inability to fire thereafter. Continue reading...