Herrera on the ball … even when he’s not
Ander Herrera was spotted more than once imploring his team-mates either to work back and defend and/or help the team regain their defensive shape (a Mourinho man if ever there was one). It is this awareness as much as his understated influence on the ball that made the man of the match stand out.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s answer when asked for his recollections of his goal revealed just how deep a thinker the Spaniard is even in the heat of battle. “To be honest, I shouldn’t have been there,” he said. “I should have been around the [edge of the] box, but as I had a yellow card, Ander Herrera…