Alejandro Garnacho's moment of frustration highlights costly selection in Manchester United draw

Jose Mourinho started out in the dugout, moved to the technical area and ended the night in the stands.

A red card against the Reds. Mourinho was expelled from the touchline along with Stefano Rapetti, briefly his fitness coach at Manchester United.

They and 35,000 Fenerbahce fanatics were vexed that the referee had the gall to deny them a penalty. Bright Osayi-Samuel was sufficiently injured by Manuel Ugarte to be substituted yet not enough to get a penalty with the game deadlocked at 1-1.

Mourinho seldom endears himself to referees, particularly those chosen by Uefa. Still, his protestations appeared relatively tame unless something untoward was said. Referee Clement Turpin wagged his finger at Osayi-Samuel even as he lay on the floor receiving treatment.

This was an occasion always bound to be dominated by Mourinho - pre-match, in-match and post-match. Erik ten Hag would prefer it that way. The most attention Ten Hag got all evening was when he strolled out onto the pitch to piercing whistles a little under two hours before kick-off. He made a point of applauding the early arrivals in the away end.

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United played a number three as their No.10 and it was moot on another eventful evening. The Noussair Mazraoui experiment lasted 55 minutes as Ten Hag swiftly responded to Fenerbahce's equaliser.

There were enough chances for another 4-3 or 3-3 to prolong United's European odyssey. Oddity may be more appropriate. United have had six separate leads wiped out in their past four European away ties.

If they hoped avoiding a two-goal cushion in Istanbul would deter Fenerbahce, it didn't. Their 49th-minute leveller had long been coming. It is now one win in 11 in Europe and 21st place in the 36-team Europa League league.

Sofyan Amrabat was particularly fervent during the pre-match cheerleading charges the Fenerbahce players went through and this was an especially crucial evening for his de facto replacement. The breakaway remains United's most potent form of attack and for Manuel Ugarte it may be a breakthrough moment.

Ugarte appeared fazed in the first ten minutes yet recovered to have his best performance by a distance for United. Not only that he instigated the slick move United scored from but the identity of the Fenerbahce midfielder he dispossessed - Fred.

This was Ugarte's first club start in three weeks and as worthy of celebration was his goal-saving block from Dusan Tadic eight minutes later. That was greeted with chest bumps and high fives from Diogo Dalot and Matthijs de Ligt once Ugarte got back to his feet.

Ten Hag signposted a recall for Casemiro at West Ham during his pre-match chat with the broadcasters yet converting defence into attack and preserving a lead are skills possibly beyond the Brazilian now. Ugarte's impacts demonstrated why United plumped for an enforcer with no Dutch ties over the Ten Hag loyalist Amrabat.

Amrabat was piqued that technical director Jason Wilcox intervened to prevent his loan being upgraded to a permanent transfer. After the final whistle, he put his hands together for the travelling Mancunians.

It is still premature to dub Christian Eriksen evergreen in his 33rd year but his run of eight starts in nine games, garnished by four goals and three assists, is one of the season's unlikely developments. United should still wait as long as possible until deciding whether his contract is renewed next summer.

Joshua Zirkzee assisted Eriksen yet this was another anaemic showing from a purported goalscorer who never seems likely to score a goal. Alejandro Garnacho did not conceal his anger when he released the ball, vexed that Zirkzee had underhit and misplaced a pass rather than playing it ahead of him. Zirkzee was replaced by Rasmus Hojlund before the hour.

Hojlund had a gentle time away with Denmark, playing only 69 minutes in their Nations League fixtures, dinked in the winner against Brentford on Saturday and had a five-day gap between games. Eight players retained their place from United's weekend win.

Three of the four United players who appeared under Mourinho started. Victor Lindelof, United's great survivor regardless of how often they bolster their central defence, lined up for the first time since March. Mourinho preyed on Lindelof's aerial sickness for Youssef En-Nesyri's goal.

Lisandro Martinez, captaining United, assembled a pre-match huddle amid the ear-piercing din yet quickly found himself in a muddle. He was too high, then off the pace and then sold a dummy by right back Osayi-Samuel in the sixth minute. Curiously, Allan Saint-Maximin never wandered over that side to pit himself against the stop-gap left back.

Then he showed why. Diogo Dalot was left black and blue by Saint-Maximin when he donned the black and white of Newcastle and hooked at half-time of the League Cup final last year. Twenty months later, Dalot allowed Saint-Maximin to find United's old bogeyman En-Nesyri.

Caglar Soyuncu, Dusan Tadic and Saint-Maximin all scored past United during their Premier League stints. En-Nesyri is not a name to roll off the tongue like United's scourges Alan Shearer or Sergio Aguero yet he was involved in two of their Europa League ejections with Sevilla, scoring twice two seasons ago.

En-Nesyri somehow failed to convert from two point-blank headers that Andre Onana athletically clawed away. Mourinho broke into an incredulous smile and almost tilted over. He embraced a ball boy after En-Nesyri eventually and inevitably got on the scoresheet.

That is twice this season Onana's agility has accounted for a memorable double-save. There was no prospect of Ten Hag charitably affording Altay Bayindir a run-out back at his former club.

The local hero returned to such a warm homecoming before his warm-up that the stewards allowed a child to invade the pitch and embrace him. Bayindir barely acknowledged the travelling United supporters and vice versa.

They were louder hollering for a penalty.