Anthony Elanga is the coolest kid in all of Europe after snatching draw for Manchester United - The Warm-Up

THURSDAY'S BIG STORIES Easy, easy, easy Ad/> It is axiomatic. It is always true. It is better to be lucky than good.

And perhaps even more importantly, it's much, much funnier. Manchester United went to Atletico Madrid last night, and for an hour they looked impossibly bad. Not just a bit overwhelmed.

Not just a bit off their game. Actively awful. They couldn't kick the ball where they wanted it to go, which is quite fundamental to this whole football thing.

Champions LeagueSuper-sub Elanga snatches dramatic draw for Man Utd against Atletico14 HOURS AGO Maybe it was a question of preparation. Maybe Ralf Rangnick and co. had watched the tapes of Atleti this season, reached the understandable conclusion that this lot weren't up to much, and decided that this would be a good night for the Toblerone-shaped boots.

That call went badly, as did the idea to stick Victor Lindelof at right-back. And the only thing keeping that brainwave from being the worst decision of the evening was Bruno Fernandes' passing. If it had been a boxing match, the referee would have stopped it, then double-checked with the dizzy-looking blue corner that they hadn't been looking for the swimming pool.

But Atleti, for all that they made United look like fools, and for all that they controlled the flow of the game — have the ball, lads, you've got no idea what to do with it — only scored one goal. And that leaves things very open to one moment of magic. Or even just one moment of competence.

The result is king. United's late goal probably makes them sort of favourites to through, on the basis that the second leg is at Old Trafford and they can't play this badly again. (We're pretty confident that one of those two things is true.) And that means the