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Kobbie Mainoo has calmly emerged from the Manchester United chaos as England’s next superstar

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“How does he even do that, at 18?” remarked one Manchester United coach after witnessing Kobbie Mainoo score a scintillating 97th-minute winner against Wolves back in February. “He is sat in the dressing room like it is nothing at all.”

United had seen a 3-1 lead on 85 minutes evaporate as Wolves pegged them back to 3-3 but, in the seventh minute of injury time, the Red Devils found their young saviour. Mainoo controlled the ball beautifully, danced past two defenders and finished calmly into the bottom corner to.

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