Scotland international John McGinn warmed up for this week’s Nations League fixtures by playing a major role in Aston Villa’s thrilling 4-4 draw with Manchester United on Sunday afternoon, but left fuming after two dramatic late goals denied them a vital win.

McGinn, 31, helped his side get off to a perfect start at Old Trafford, assisting Alysson's opening goal in the first minute, before Nicolas Jackson added a second just three minutes later. A penalty from Bruno Fernandes (16) and a Youri Tielemans strike (44) levelled the scores before half-time, though.

However, the away side took the lead once again just three minutes after the restart when McGinn buried his penalty beyond Senne Lammens, and it looked like Villa had sealed the win when Leon Goretzka scored his first goal for the club in the 53rd minute. Dramatically, though, Manchester United somehow stole a point with two injury-time strikes from Joshua Zirkzee and Patrick Dorgu.

Having been just seconds away from breaking a run of three games without a win, McGinn was left hugely frustrated as he lamented Villa’s late collapse. “We have to manage these moments better,” McGinn told Match of the Day. “Not a lot of teams will come here 2-0 and give goals away. We have to defend better in those positions. In the last 10 minutes of each half, we have to manage better.

“We have a lot of inexperienced players but a lot of talent, and that's why we score goals. It doesn't matter if United are low on confidence; you're always up against it. We lost two points. We threw it away. The last five minutes were just madness. It's going to sting. The manager is a winner; he'll be hurting the way we are. We go play international football but he'll dwell on it for two weeks.”

The thrilling draw means McGinn’s side are winless since their 2-1 triumph over Manchester City on October 24, leaving them in 10th place in the English Premier League. Meanwhile, their hosts are now the only side in the league to have won just one game this season, leaving them in 18th place and amongst the relegation spots as pressure mounts on head coach Michael Carrick.

However, United did set a little piece of history during the chaotic 4-4 draw with Unai Emery’s side, as they became the first team in English Premier League history to trail by two goals on two separate occasions within a single match and successfully fight back to level the score both times.

Elsewhere, McGinn’s international teammate Scott McTominay saw his Napoli side rescue a point against top of the table Lazio at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium thanks to an own goal in the second half. The Partenopei currently occupy 10th place in the Serie A after losing four of their opening 11 games, and looked set to fall to a fifth defeat when their unbeaten visitors took the lead through Davide Fratessi after 28 minutes.

Napoli took a share of the spoils though in strange circumstances when substitute Alfonso Pedraza smashed beyond his own goalkeeper while under pressure from McTominay just three minutes after being introduced as a half-time substitute. Already 14 points behind the league leaders, pressure is mounting on head coach Massimiliano Allegri, but remained defiant after the stalemate.

“Let us remember we are not out of Serie A, the Coppa Italia or the Champions League yet," said Allegri. “There are difficult moments over the course of a campaign. I believe we need to deal with them in a spirit of calm. When we are in the middle of the storm, we manage to get the boat to shore somehow.