Manchester United have a new game-changer after Leeds win

Marcus Rashford's relocation to the centre forward role is becoming a reinvention. All bar one of his goals prior to the domestic season's hiatus came from the left flank and he has switched from wingman to frontman to score his last three.

Rashford's winners have secured a staggering 24 points in the Premier League this season - more than half of United's 46 points. His positional change at Elland Road was Erik ten Hag's most decisive on an afternoon his man-management of Alejandro Garnacho paid off.

The most underrated change was the introduction of Lisandro Martinez. Martinez is suspended for the Europa League play-off first leg in Barcelona on Thursday, so Luke Shaw moved inside to centre-back and Tyrell Malacia to get them up to speed for starts in Camp Nou.

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Shaw and Malacia performed capably in those roles and you could understand the rotation, yet United were deprived of arguably the best defender in the world's most intense league. "Stop playing stupid and slow passes across the back! Same as Wednesday first half!" Gary Neville tweeted.

Martinez is almost as much of an asset in attack as he is in defence. United missed his line-breaking passes that underpin their attack and Harry Maguire, though defensively stable, was so error-prone he was visibly exasperated with himself at one misplaced pass.

Garnacho was introduced at the same time as Martinez yet it was the latter Ten Hag instructed first. United are a more tactically sophisticated side this season, underlined by the experiment of Malacia moving into midfield when they had possession in their own third, and introducing a centre half for a left-back at 0-0 was