Champions League: Manchester United 0-1 Barcelona, 5 Talking Points

#2 Pogba and Rashford disappoint as United lose again

Pogba showed flashes of his quality, but they were infrequent in a game he needed to stamp his authority on

In a game of such magnitude, this was precisely the stage for Paul Pogba to impose his quality. Just like during their first leg defeat to PSG in February, his flashes of brilliance were just too few and far between.

With Busquets on a booking, you'd have been excused for expecting more from the Frenchman. He displayed his excellent passing range with some searching balls out wide and into the danger areas, but failed to grab the game by the scruff of its neck and dominate like we know he's capable of - which was frustrating to see.

He started slowly and was clearly being man-marked off-the-ball as Barca looked to lessen his impact, though his movement wasn't particularly sharp and didn't warrant much faith from team-mates to drive forward either.

As for Rashford, it was a disappointing showing. He threatened with his blistering speed and direct nature but endured a poor evening in-front of goal - failing to test an alert Marc-Andre ter Stegen while also struggling to connect cleanly with any of his four attempts on goal. In matches like these, one needs to be more clinical and the fact Ter Stegen had no shots to save just isn't good enough, not least at home against an underwhelming Barca display like this one was.

His brilliant ball into the box should have been rewarded with an assist after Dalot's header flashed across goal, but in a game of such fine margins, he'll know improvement is needed while showing more composure in such promising attacking positions.