Jesse Marsch was fired by Leeds on Monday after a stretch of seven league games without a victory. The visitors were on track to defeat United for the first time since 2010 despite having only one 20-minute training session to prepare for the journey across The Pennines. After only one minute, Wilfried Gnonto gave Leeds the perfect start, and Raphael Varane's own goal extended their lead early in the second half.
The Red Devils rallied after Marcus Rashford's 20th goal of the year, and Jadon Sancho's first goal since September extended their home undefeated streak to 16 games. After the first of two Premier League meetings between the teams in five days, Ten Hag observed, "You can say we won a point because when you are in a derby and come back from 2-0 down it is fantastic.