There are some things that are clear even after two weekends of the Premier League season. Arsenal will be there in the shake-up for the title next May. Manchester United will not.
To be at Craven Cottage on a balmy Sunday afternoon and see Ruben Amorim's side labour to a painful, uncertain 1-1 draw with Fulham was to be assailed with an uncomfortable sense of deja vu.
There was Bruno Fernandes, ballooning a penalty so high over the Fulham crossbar that his kick launched a thousand memes purporting to show people staring at the ball in wonder as it sailed across the night sky.