Everton were on course for a fifth win in six league games which, as Amorim still only has four victories in his time at Old Trafford, would have represented another indictment of one of Moyes’ successors.
Everton 2-2 Manchester United: The visitors were outclassed by Everton but, inspired by Bruno Fernandes and perhaps fortunate to avoid a late penalty, they overcame another slow start.
None succeeded and Doucoure headed the ball into the path of Beto, who hooked in his fifth goal in four games; it is as many as the United duo of Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee have between them all season.
As two of his successors met, this seemed another case of it, a fightback that, like Ferguson’s against Bayern Munich in 1999, was remarkable in part because it felt inexplicable, because United were out of sorts, outclassed, seemingly out for the count.
They powered into a 2-0 lead: before Fernandes scored United’s belated first league goal of February, Beto had his fifth.
