The big midfielder – whose new contract with the club was announced by ManUtd.com on Friday - came off the bench to play an influential part in the Belgians’ breathtaking recovery.
In yet another of this tournament’s many exhilarating matches, the much-fancied Europeans rallied from being 2-0 down to the Asian underdogs to winning 3-2 with essentially the last kick in injury time.
Nacer Chadli, a winger for relegated West Bromwich Albion, scored the decisive goal after Romelu Lukaku dummied a ball in from the right at the end of a clinical counter-attack launched by Kevin De Bruyne.