Manchester United are going nowhere if they keep making the same mistakes

As the Manchester United fans streamed out of the Turf Moor away end into the miserable Burnley evening they would have had a sense of deja vu.

Not with the rain in Burnley, although that is pretty much guaranteed at this time of year, but in witnessing their team continue to make the same mistakes, again and again.

Before this game, Ralf Rangnick had been publicly imploring his team to learn from the errors of their ways on Friday night. The interim manager was delighted with the execution of the game plan against Middlesbrough, but not at the failure to convert chances. Rangnick doesn't seem the type to plug the hairdryer in the dressing room, but he must be getting exasperated with this.

For 45 minutes United were outstanding at Turf Moor. They were completely unflustered defensively, dominated midfield and played some very good football going forward.

Rangnick wants his teams to attack vertically and United attacked with pace and panache in the first half. There might be frustration at the disallowed goals, with Raphael Varane's header ruled out for an offside infringement and Josh Brownhill's own goal for a foul by Edinson Cavani, but neither decision was particularly egregious.

Instead, United have to look at themselves. Their level of domination deserved more than one goal. Time and again they forced Burnley towards their own goal, with Jadon Sancho, Marcus Rashford and Luke Shaw causing problems down United's left, in particular.

There looked to be only one winner at the break, but then that was the case at half-time on Friday as well and at half-time at Aston Villa last month. In all three of those games, United have lost momentum and failed to win. When they have conceded their response has been feeble.

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