With the 1st place in Group F of the Champions League already assured, Ralf Rangnick spared several of the main figures in the squad and launched less used players in Manchester United’s 1-1 draw against Young Boys. Some of them have come off the bench, like Tom Heaton, who made his first-team debut nearly 20 years after his first arrival at the club.
The goalkeeper who replaced Dean Henderson on Wednesday night – 68 minutes into the game with the Swiss team – entered the universe of red devils very young, in the 2002/03 season, to reinforce the under-17 team from Wrexham. He then went through all the training levels and was even promoted by sir Alex Ferguson to the association of the biggest stars of the English group.
Several experiments on loan followed – Swindon Town, Antwerp (Belgium), Cardiff, Queens Park Rangers, Rochdale and Wycombe –, interspersed with uncompetitive seasons at Old Trafford. Who left, definitively, in 2010, at the invitation of Cardiff.
However, the English international – played three games for the selection of the three lions – represented Bristol, Burnley and Aston Villa, until, in this season, the proposal to return to the your United. With De Gea resting, he now had the right to hear the opening whistle of a Champions League game sitting on the bench, far from imagining that this would be the night he would fulfill an old dream. At 35 years old.
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