Smalling headed home the opening goal in United’s victory over Leicester, with Juan Mata, Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba also scoring.
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Mata was widely expected to leave United following the arrival of Jose Mourinho, who sold him while the pair were at Chelsea, but the 28-year-old has been a regular feature in the Portuguese’s side so far this campaign.
The midfielder believes that for the “first four” games of the season “we were good” but then in the two games following that against “City and Watford” the team weren’t which lead to losses, so he felt against Leicester “we showed on the pitch a big performance” to get back to winning ways.
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“I think if we can start the game with that tempo, I think there’s not many teams that can live with us”.
“There was a lot of talk about the team and we showed today we can do”.
Daley Blind was on corner-kick duty against Leicester, and United scored from three of them.
“We have always worked on corners”, Mata told MUTV. It was very important and when we had the ball we just played like I knew we could.
United will host Ukrainian side Zorya Luhansk in their next Europa League game at Old Trafford on Thursday night.
Leicester are back in action on Tuesday as Porto arrive for the club’s first-ever Champions League home match.
Andy King and Demarai Gray came on, with the latter shining off the bench and beating David de Gea with an exquisite strike.
Arsenal enjoyed the goal fest too, helping Arsene Wenger celebrate his 20th anniversary as their manager with three first-half goals sweeping aside London rivals Chelsea 3-0 at the Emirates Stadium.
“Everyone has to hold their hands up and it’s definitely something we can learn from and move onto the next game”. We tried it a few times last season but it didn’t work.
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