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Key events5m agoBack underway in Madrid21m agoHalf-time: Atletico Madrid 1-0 Manchester United24m agoGoal ruled out – still 1-0 to Atletico26m agoGoal! Atletico Madrid 2-0 Manchester United (Cardoso, 44) – goal ruled out by VAR1h agoAway we go in Madrid and it's 1-0 Atletico (Barrios, 1)2h agoTeams: Baleba starts for United3h agoPreamble Atletico Madrid’s Pablo Barrios fires home to open the scoring. Photograph: Susana Vera/ReutersView image in fullscreenAtletico Madrid’s Pablo Barrios fires home to open the scoring. Photograph: Susana Vera/ReutersKey events5m agoBack underway in Madrid21m agoHalf-time: Atletico Madrid 1-0 Manchester United24m agoGoal ruled out – still 1-0 to Atletico26m agoGoal! Atletico Madrid 2-0 Manchester United (Cardoso, 44) – goal ruled out by VAR1h agoAway we go in Madrid and it's 1-0 Atletico (Barrios, 1)2h agoTeams: Baleba starts for United3h agoPreamble51 min: Good, hard tackle by Baleba in midfield. Just what United have been missing? It will help if he can keep that up.

49 min: Rashford bobs and weaves but Simeone Jnr steps across to win the free-kick. He’s a chip off the old block, learning all the tricks.

48 min: Alvarez receives a long ball, and Martinez comes across to tackle his international teammate. Bruno then wins a foul. The United fans can be heard, perhaps for the first time tonight.

46 min: Can United start the second half better than they did the first? They get past 53 seconds and there’s a sliver of a chance when Bruno smashes the ball in, and Atletico clear. A second chance comes soon enough and Oblak is happy to claim; Mbeumo had not read the Bruno pass.

Matthew Lysaght gets in touch: “Surprised that nobody has mentioned Johnny 5 at the back for Atleti. Waiting for him to come alive perhaps? Or to suffer a short circuit in the second half? Also, Ayden Heaven not wearing 17 is a travesty.”

England’s Lionesses are cruising through their World Cup playoff. Ukraine beckon.

Read moreRichard Hirst with a first-half hat-trick: “The goal may have been ruled out but Atletico are definitely Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.”

Kevin “Bloody” Wilson: “It does look to be going the same way it did for Amorim, Solskjaer, Mourinho – it’s not a question of if Carrick will lose his job, it’s when.”

A goal down in 53 seconds, and then came an improvement, chances for Mbeumo and Rashford came and went. Then came gratitude for VAR. Atletico will be disappointed they are not 2-0 up.

45 min: Some relief for United. Heaven was involved in that, Simeone has clearly targeted the weakness down the United defensive flanks. They will be relieved to go in just 1-0 down.

44 min: Did the ball hit the hand of Llorente in that buildup? He gained an advantage, and the VAR decision goes against Atletico. United were very lucky. Bruno made himself useful by running to the ref to ask him to look at it.

View image in fullscreenReferee Glenn Nyberg performs a VAR check on the goal of Atletico Madrid’s Johnny Cardoso, disallowing the goal. Photograph: Adam Davy/PAToo easy, United back in numbers and still allow Atletico to pass the ball around, and seize on the loose ball, Cardoso rattling in from distance.

42 min: Baena and Grimaldo are quite the threat down the left, keeping Diogo Dalot busy. Baena almost pulls off a one-two with Alvarez but Dalot reads it and is able to stop that attack. Another will surely follow. And it does, with Alvarez firing over.

40 min: Bruno, at last, gets forward, off the right but is slow to get the ball in. Eventually, the ball goes back to Heaven, who is not the player United want to be attacking in the final third.

38 min: That talk of improvement in United? Well, that’s going flat. Atleti are stepping it up. United have lost their previous capability of holding possession.

37 min: A booking. Not for Andrey Santos for his tackle on Cardoso, but for Diego Simeone for waving a fake yellow. The great man has still got it.

36 min: United back in numbers, and holding their shape. If it wasn’t for that early calamity this might be classed as a mature European performance. But it’s a big if, isn’t it?

34 min: Leighton Taylor is a man and not a boy, presumably: “Has nobody acknowledged the incredible Chesney Hawkesalikery of the goal scorer? It’s amazing he is maintaining that level of volume in his hair so far into the game.”

33 min: Heaven called into action to stop Lee and then Llorente as Atletico try to pile forward in numbers. This time, United hold firm. Better from Heaven. United won’t want too much Heaven in action.

31 min: Richard Hirst has been back on: “Time to switch the spotlight away from the unfortunate Heaven? Given his predilection for kamikaze tackles and general mindlessness I’m surprised we haven’t heard more about a certain former Spurs central defender,: ‘wherefore art thou Rome(r)o?’”

He and Martinez were Argentina’s gruesome twosome at the summer’s World Cup.

30 min: Bruno, for it is he, lofts in a free-kick that does little to trouble Oblak. A waste, in fact. It gives chance for Barrios to go on the burst, and he wins a corner.

29 min: Some frustration for the home team and their fans, with United doing better in midfield. Bruno Fernandes still yet to see much of the ball, mind.

28 min: This has been better from United, they have responded well to going behind. Baleba leaves a reducer on Baena, and that might help them along. Baleba escapes a booking, too.

26 min: Close for Atleti. Martinez, on Barrios, makes one of his injudicious fouls and that sets up a chance for an Atletico free-kick. Grimaldo takes with his left, and swings it off the angle.

25 min: Baleba gets a good chance from the corner but the angle is tight and he cannot beat the goalkeeper.

24 min: Big chance for United. Baleba wins the ball, and then Mbeumo and Tielemans swap passes, the forward shoots, and Oblak has to make the save.

View image in fullscreenManchester United’s Bryan Mbeumo rues his miss. Photograph: Sergio Pérez/EPA22 min: United continue to have more of the ball. But Atletico’s counters are the danger and Cardozo’s ball over the top is aimed for Alvarez who seems to give up the chase.

20 min: Buddy Holly Eddie Cochran fan Tim Wood gets in touch: “If United’s left back is struggling, the centre backs need to keep close to support him. Ideally ensuring there are never more than Three Steps to Heaven.”

Apologies, got my ill-fated, early rock n’roll heroes mixed up there.

19 min: The home team, with that lead, are playing patiently. And then going vertical, as they say, just when United are sitting back expecting a slow passing move. This is a different Atletico to that we have been used to over the Simeone years, all 15 of them.

17 min: Atletico go long towards Alvarez, and Yoro uses his pace to close down the danger. United’s three attempts against Atleti’s single shot, and yet the score is in the Madrid team’s favour.