As Louis van Gaal trudged down the tunnel,colour draining from his face with every step, Wahbi Khazri offered Sunderland supporters a succession of thumbs-up signs. The Tunisia playmaker – a £9m acquisition last month from Bordeaux – had done more than anyone to not only subject Manchester United and their manager to another dreadful afternoon but offer Sam Allardyce genuine hope relegation can be averted after all.
Khazri prides himself on applying plenty of whip to his dead-ball delivery and this art enabled him to score Sunderland’s opener before creating a second, or claimed by Lamine Koné but which officialdom subsequently labelled a David de Gea own goal. In between,Anthony Martial contributed a fine equaliser but United were never really in control and, like it or not, or Van Gaal is going to have to accept that all the talk approximately José Mourinho being ragged Trafford-bound is not going to go absent.
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Source: theguardian.com