Manchester United Boss Compares New Boy To Barcelona Legend

Martial has bagged four goals in his first four games in all competitions since his £36million deadline day move from Ligue 1 outfit Monaco, including a brace in last weekend’s 3-2 win over Southampton at St Mary’s.

The Reds no.8 tweeted simply “Happy days!”, while former player Gary Neville allowed himself a brief moment to dream stating: “Glass of red thinking “Are we gonna win the league?’ Haha!”

Manchester United midfielder Juan Mata has said that manager Louis van Gaal told his players that understanding his methods at the start would be hard but the Spaniard thinks the team are improving all the time, via the Daily Mirror.

The fact that Depay scored in the fourth minute of first-half injury time was appropriate, according to Van Gaal, because he felt Sunderland were guilty of time-wasting.

Manchester United attacker Wayne Rooney has voiced his admiration for Anthony Martial following his fine start to life at Old Trafford.

Sanchez’s hat trick was his first goals of the season for the Gunners, while Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud also netted as Arsene Wenger’s side built on its midweek League Cup win over Tottenham.

Arsenal had managed just five goals in its first six league games but matched that total during an entertaining afternoon at Leicester. The Black Cats (0-2-4) are partners in misery with their Tyneside neighbours Newcastle at the foot of the table, trailing the Magpies on goal difference and have shipped a league-worst 13 goals thus far. The Dutchman, though, insisted there was optimism to be found and lamented a disallowed first-half goal he felt could have turned the match. I want to play with a first striker and a second striker and maybe he and Martial can be a very good duo together. “If Ola (Toivonen) had scored that early chance to make it 1-1 it could have been different, but it was not to be”. The England captain last league goal was against Aston Villa on April 4. Join The Roar from 12am AEST for live scores to find out.

Liverpool had been without a league victory since the second game of the season but returned to winning ways at Anfield.