Four Manchester United players repay fans and Erik ten Hag in Real Betis win

From Anfield to Antony. This was a night of atonement for those Manchester United starters involved in the Anfield aberration only four days earlier.

Marcus Rashford, Antony, Bruno Fernandes and Wout Weghorst, all guilty of specific transgressions in the humiliation by Liverpool, exorcised some demons to restore normality at a club whose upward trajectory suddenly dipped at the weekend.

Antony, one of the most feckless participants at Anfield, was decisive on another European night at Old Trafford. Defenders show the Brazilian inside at their peril. and the nonchalance with which Antony curled the ball out of the reach of Claudio Bravo is partly why Erik ten Hag prioritised his acquisition.

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Abner Vinicius, the Real Betis left-back, had not got the memo. Bravo watched the ball fly past him as though it were a bird gliding by. For all Antony's flaws, his left-footedness has redressed a lopsided United attack and he is the scourge of Spanish defences after deciding the previous round against Barcelona.

Fernandes was deliberately the first to be serenaded by those in the militant singing section; vocal backing for the de facto captain who has led impeccably all season, bar Sunday. Fernandes claimed an assist and a goal.

"Bruno, Bruno, Bruno" chanted the United supporters as Fernandes savoured his eighth goal of the season to put United 3-1 up. There were bear hugs from Casemiro and Lisandro Martinez before Fernandes acknowledged his family in one of the hospitality boxes in the Sir Alex Ferguson Stand.

Fernandes was so selfless he accepted the blame for one of David de Gea's umpteen appalling kicks, patting his chest to publicly accept responsibility. Fernandes's body language