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Only Nations League group winners have the insurance policy of a guaranteed play-off and that horse has long since bolted for Scotland.

“Inside it's like many buses all bolted together. In half a day you might never see another person,” explains Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, commander on the Expedition 35 mission in 2012-13.

"It was a group of 50 and 7 stayed behind and 43 bolted out the door."

Slot was considered calm enough to deal with the inevitable heat and scrutiny of following Klopp, while his belief in pressing intensity - bolted on to a more ordered strategy - was regarded as something that would take the best of what he had inherited and add new dimensions.

United, under the temporary leadership of Ruud van Nistelrooy following Erik ten Hag’s sacking, were not short of effort in the 1-1 draw with Chelsea, but this grim evidence of an acute lack of quality and creation, bolted on to the vast millions wasted on poor recruitment, will have been a sobering experience for Amorim.