16 min Fernandes looks himself again after a couple of flat performances (and two missed pens). But the other No 10, Enciso, looks just as incisive.

16 min Shaw’s through ball finds Fernandes, who can’t quite bring it under control. It turns out he was offside anyway.

14 min Big chance for Ipswich! They break from the corner and Enciso holds off Shaw and Mbeumo to get a shot away, well saved by Lammens. Then the ball goes up the other end, where Rashford is inches away from sliding in to meet Cunha’s low cross.

12 min Save! By Scherpen from Dalot, who curled a classy left-foot shot towards the top corner. It was a flowing move from United that involved both wingers.

11 min Ipswich attack again. As a cross comes in from the left, Martinez can’t reach it and Shaw has to bail him out with a header.

7 min Maeda sees that run and more than matches it, tearing down the left and landing the first shot on target, which is too tame to trouble Lammens.

6 min Cunha passes to Rashford, who goes on a slalom before returning the compliment. Cunha’s shot is always going over.

6 min The first shot is taken by … Rashford, from distance, but it’s half-blocked by an Ipswich foot and loops up kindly for Scherpen, the giant in their goal.

5 min United pass the ball around at the back before Martinez hits it out. Gary O’Neil must have been tempted to play a back five, after seeing United struggle to cope with Hull’s wing-backs, but it seems to be a back four .

4 min Rashford has now gone more minutes without a goal today than he did when he last faced Ipswich: he scored after 2 min in Ruben Amorim’s first game as manager, which ended in a draw.

3 min As expected, Carrick has Mbeumo on the right, Mbeumo in the middle and Rashford on the left. Rashford makes his first run now, but is well marshalled by O’Shea I think.

1 min Ipswich kick off, head over to their right and run into Luke Shaw, who bundles the ball out. They’re in off-white with black shorts: have they borrowed United’s third kit?

Lisandro Martinez lost only one game of the 13 he started last season, apparently. Fun fact: he’s not the only Argentinian here with a World Cup medal – Exequiel Palacios has just joined Ipswich and he’s on the bench.

Out come the players, some of them holding babes in arms – including Marcus Rashford, who has a big smile on his face.

The first email of the afternoon comes from Dave. “Hi Tim, loving the MBM.” Thanks! “Just wondered if there’s any insight into why Sesko seems to find it so hard to get a start.”

At the moment he’s coming back from injury – he was understandably rusty when he came on for the last half-hour at Hull. But it’s true that Carrick has sometimes had him on the bench by choice. There was a spell in the new year when Sesko was United’s best super-sub since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

A bit of change at Old Trafford, too. The turf has been relaid, for the first time in 14 years. So not even Luke Shaw was there when it last happened.

Here’s Gary O’Neil, being asked about Ipswich’s fine start against Sunderland. “It gave everyone a nice boost,” he says. “Lot of change, obviously… This is a real tough test for us, but one that the group are ready for. We’ve worked really hard over the past eight weeks.”

It’s full time in the 2pm games. Chelsea have beaten Brighton 4-3 in a game that wasn’t quite as close as it sounds. Leeds and Brentford have drawn 1-1, and Sunderland have bucked the trend I mentioned by beating Fulham 1-0 after losing last weekend.

So Fulham join Palace, Coventry and Spurs on nul points after two games, while Chelsea emulate Man City and the mighty Hull in starting with successive wins. Do join John Brewin for more.

How bad were United last weekend? The result was a shocker, and so was the defending at set pieces –but they didn’t concede in open play, did create plenty of chances and led their manager to say that they “did some good things”. For United Writing, the free microsite I run with Rob Smyth, I tried to weigh up the good, the bad and the ugly.

It will be interesting to see how United’s front three line up. Bryan Mbeumo started most of the pre-season games at centre-forward and was probably United’s best player, along with Mason Mount. But because Amad had to pull out of the Hull game with injury, Mbeumo went back to the right wing, and Matheus Cunha started as a deep-lying, if not quite false, 9. Rashford has played more often in the middle for United than either of them, but the chances are that he’ll start on the left, where he offers more width (and pace) than Cunha.