Thursday, November 9th, and United landed back in Manchester with the Copenhagen defeat still trailing them through every screen on the plane.
Demien's phone filled with the same night from a dozen angles once it found signal again — Copenhagen's players still celebrating somewhere online, Rashford's red card being replayed and argued over from every conceivable position, Højlund's two goals against his old club getting their own separate highlight package, Maguire's stoppage-time crossbar looped into a "so close" compilation.
A few clips isolated Demien specifically, arguing the obvious point in different words each time — United had lost a match in which one of their midfielders had done almost everything asked of him.
He didn't need any of it confirmed for him. He locked the phone before the bus had even reached Carrington.
Recovery protocol swallowed the players who'd finished the match, and the difference between Demien and the rest of them was hard to miss.
