Ole Gunnar Solskjaer can only hope Manchester United put up as good a defensive performance against Atalanta on Wednesday night as he himself did on the eve of this Group F tie at Old Trafford.
A few days after leaking four goals at Leicester, United must pick themselves up for the next test in a crucial run of games that could quite easily plunge the club from their early-season funk into a full-blown crisis.
After four defeats in seven games and criticism from all quarters that this is a United team still woefully short of being the sum of its parts, Solskjaer seized the opportunity to defend his record since succeeding Jose Mourinho in December 2018.