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“We have to improve and we have to know that, I have said it also to the players”.

The Red Devils leapfrogged rivals Manchester City after the Citizens suffered a heavy defeat against Tottenham Hotspur.

Coupled with Manchester City’s 4-1 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur earlier, that enabled the Red Devils to take top spot for the first time in 82 weeks. David Moyes’s United were top after the opening match of the following season but they were immediately dislodged....

Just 38 seconds after the restart, Rooney bundled in his first Premier League goal in 999 minutes and Mata converted Ashley Young’s cross in the dying stages to round off the win.

Ramires fired a thunderbolt into the roof of the net with 12 minutes remaining and Willian then saw his free kick go directly into the net through a crowd of players and unsighted home goalkeeper Tim Krul. “So it’s a new team”, stated Van Gaal.

Dick Advocaat is more concerned about Manchester United’s players, than locking horns with old team-mate and adversary Louis van Gaal.

Despite having regularly been sucked into relegation battles due to all manner of problems (which I wrote about for SB Nation’s main site earlier in the week), they’ve had an annoyingly good record against United over the last couple of years.

“But he knows also that it is a long way to go and it is not easy”.

United declined to comment any further on the matter, but it is understood that Shaw will have a second operation at the Dutch hospital as part of his recovery on Friday.

Shaw had an operation on the leg at the St Anna Ziekenhuis hospital on the outskirts of Eindhoven on the night of the match and stayed there until he was given the all clear to return to Manchester on Saturday.

The restaurant offers premium valet and chauffeur services – Van Gaal and the two women arrived in a stunning Bentley – complete with a personalised W1 NGS number plate.

The creative midfielder was part of the starting XI that struggled to unlock Liverpool in the first half.

“You never want to lose the game but I saw enough in that day to know we had actually got our identity back“.

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal gave the strongest indication yet that Ryan Giggs will take up the hot seat at Old Trafford after he retires.

It would be easy to overlook the significance of his omission for Saturday’s cakewalk against San Marino, with tonight’s trickier game against Switzerland in mind, and yet it merely underscores his importance to England’s cause. ‘It’s a big year for him.