Well, outside of the first rounds of the domestical cup competitions you would also have a hard time finding an opponent as poor as Luhansk today.
They did not threaten offensively, because a) they never truly attempted and b) lacked the ability to do so. The very few counters they had were played pretty darn terribly.
They basically surrendered the entire midfield to United, which led to the 80% possession at one point of the game. No pressure on the build up, no attempts to disrupt pass rotation, no urgency to go after the second balls. The only real plan the Ukranian side had was to sit in their own third and wait out United.
Now, that is the plan for a lot of smaller sides, but not even that plan was well executed. Given how many players Luhansk commited to close down space around and inside their box, it was quite frankly amazing how much exploitable space still existed. Their positional organization as a whole was atrocious.
Even as a neutral, it was frustrating as hell seeing all this space and United not taking advantage of that. Mata was the only offensive player really looking for these spaces, but the lack of movement in the final third made it hard for him to bring dangerous passes inside the box. Rashford certainly tried to make stuff happen, but often chose the more complicated ways to get into the right positions.
All in all, it is worrying how much United struggled to create chances even against such a lacklustre opponent. For their sake I can only hope that this was down more to lack of commitment and being mentaly already in preparation for the upcoming EPL fixtures.
