Three things we learnt as record-breaking Rooney salvages draw for Manchester United against Stoke

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Form is temporary, class is permanent

At 31-years-old, Wayne Rooney knows that his best playing years are behind him and that he can’t compete with the exuberant youth of Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard in attack.

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Rooney has only started two of United’s last nine Premier League matches, and has struggled to make an impact whilst on the pitch – but class is permanent, and just like many a time before he popped up when Manchester United needed him most to rescue a last-gasp point away to Stoke.

It was almost as if everybody knew that his record-breaking goal, which now makes him United’s highest ever goal-scorer, would come with a hint of drama attached to it – many people thought the script was written for last week against Liverpool, but instead it was to be six days later with a sensational injury-time free-kick, in trusty dramatic circumstances.

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Perhaps testament to Rooney as a person, despite the enormous feat that he had just achieved in style, there were no celebrations; a fist-pump was enough for him, with all of his thoughts geared on getting the ball back to the half-way line and re-starting the match to push for a winner.

In a modern era of egotistical footballers, Rooney showed that Manchester United as a team has always been his priority.

Although the result will do nothing to help United’s top-four aspirations, Saturday afternoon belonged to one man who wrote himself into Manchester United legendary status forever.

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