Fletcher may have changed United’s formation at Turf Moor, but there are other elements of their make-up that will be far more troublesome to address no matter who is in charge until the end of the season.<\/p>\n
They have still only kept two clean sheets this season, and – just as they did under Amorim – they coughed up goals far too easily.<\/p>\n
After Casemiro lost his man, Heaven did not get out quickly enough to block Bashir Humphreys’ cross, creating the space that allowed it to flick off him and into the net. <\/p>\n
Martinez and Luke Shaw were then both guilty of affording Anthony too much room inside the box, and he exploited it with a fine equaliser.<\/p>\n
There were, though, some far more positive aspects to the evening – not least the performance of Sesko.<\/p>\n
The Slovenian had scored just twice in his first 17 games as a United player. His performance in the draw at Leeds that triggered Amorim’s final outburst had led to the Portuguese having to defend his \u00a373.7m forward.<\/p>\n
It was Fletcher’s fortune that Sesko chose this game to show his ability.<\/p>\n
The run that returning skipper Bruno Fernandes spotted to thread through the pass that invited the first-time low finish was excellent. Sesko was also in the right place to apply the close-range first-time finish to Dorgu’s cross.<\/p>\n
At that stage, it looked as though Fletcher would celebrate a momentous day from a personal perspective with a win. <\/p>\n
Burnley had other ideas, although the introduction of Lacey – repeatedly overlooked by Amorim – almost had a fairytale ending as he curled a superb shot against the bar before driving the visitors’ final chance just wide from 25 yards.<\/p>\n
Chief executive Omar Berrada and director of football Jason Wilcox were stony-faced at the end of a three-game run of matches against relegation-threatened clubs in which United could do no better than three disappointing draws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fletcher may have changed United’s formation at Turf Moor, but there are other elements of their make-up that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-273021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115856250251030025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}