The captain came off the bench to net a 94th-minute equaliser, taking him past Sir Bobby Charlton's all-time tally.
History maker and saviour. It has been a while since Wayne Rooney delivered a really memorable, game-changing goal for Manchester United but on Saturday he was the man of the moment as the Red Devils somehow snatched a point when all seemed lost against Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium.
Months of anticipation have built up ahead of Rooney’s 250th goal for the club, the one which takes him past Sir Bobby Charlton as United’s all-time greatest goalscorer. But, when it finally happened, the context of the goal far outweighed the personal milestone as he secured a 1-1 draw for his side on what was otherwise an afternoon to forget.
It had been a close call for most of the game as to whether it was going to be yet another Manchester United rescue job or just one of those days. It turned out to be the former, but they should really have earned something from the match far earlier.
While Jose Mourinho can rightly point to his team having created chance after chance yet again, the bare fact that United don’t quite have the depth of quality beyond their favoured first XI was there for all to see.
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