When the team sheets dropped at the Gtech Community Stadium at 11.15am on Saturday morning, there were no surprises in the Manchester United line-up.
Casemiro was suspended, Amad Diallo was absent on compassionate grounds and Noussair Mazraoui was injured, so in came Manuel Ugarte, Matheus Cunha and Diogo Dalot.
Otherwise it was the usual 3-4-2-1 formation we have come to expect from Ruben Amorim; the one he swears by. The one, it seems, he will live or die by.
Brentford’s rookie manager Keith Andrews, on the other hand, responded to his team’s 3-1 defeat to Fulham a week earlier by making a significant change.