Analysis: Old-boy Carrick winds back clock for old-style win

There are some parts of football games that are best to watch to work out what actually happened.

This dramatic, switchback Premier League thriller is worth watching from the 85th minute onwards.

At that point, Manchester United and their fans thought they had won.

Casemiro had put the hosts in front after a bizarre period of play. The home side were initially awarded a penalty by referee John Brooks for a Jorge Cuenca foul on Matheus Cunha. However, VAR James Bell overturned it as the final contact was outside the area. Bruno Fernandes then floated the free-kick to the far post and Casemiro headed home.

Casemiro then turned provider 11 minutes after half-time as he threaded a pass through the Fulham defence to Cunha, who smashed home United's second.

But the consequences of the initial VAR check – and the one that ruled out Cuenca's second-half effort, which took so long it drew chants against the system from both sets of supporters and an irritated reaction from Cottagers boss Marco Silva - was yet to be fully felt.

Raul Jimenez delayed and delayed his penalty after he had been upended by Harry Maguire but eventually sent it right into the roof of the net.

Nine minutes injury time was shown, which meant Carrick and his players knew there was still time to respond as Fulham celebrated Kevin's brutal strike.

So much has been mentioned recently about supposed "United DNA". It is a difficult concept to define but, in historical terms, scoring very late goals must be part of it.

And, with an old boy in the dugout, so an old-style finish came to pass.

Benjamin Sesko kept his cool as he controlled Fernandes' cross and turned in the area before taking advantage of Fulham's failure to get to him quickly enough.