Kobbie Mainoo taking last lessons off Casemiro but ready to make position his own | Andy Hunter

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But it was not Mainoo’s birthplace that distinguished him at Old Trafford. It was his maturity in and out of possession, his refusal to lose his head while United seemed intent on giving away victory, the Liverpool attacks he broke and the determination to beat Dominik Szoboszlai to Alexis Mac Allister’s weak clearance and clinch the win that separated the midfielder from his peers.Mainoo has only three more games to listen and learn from Casemiro alongside him.

I’m glad to be here and my future’s at this club.”United’s central midfield provided the platform for Michael Carrick’s team to dominate their fierce rivals in the first half and re-establish control having gifted Liverpool an unlikely reprieve early in the second. Liverpool’s recovery from two goals down may have restored some credibility to their performance, and showed there is some fight in them after all, but the unvarnished truth for Slot is that the comeback owed everything to United errors and not his team’s quality.

Slot’s side were routinely pulled apart by United’s slick exchanges down the right and contained easily by the home defence. Having turned his back on Matheus Cunha’s shot and deflected it beyond Woodman, Mac Allister erred for United’s second goal with a wayward ball under no pressure straight to Mainoo.