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“In the end the result is a disappointment but the way we played and the way we responded after this week was excellent”. On the hour Georginio Wijnaldum glanced a header into the far corner of Asmir Begovic’s goal from a Perez corner.

The best thing to happen was Tottenham’s absolute destruction of current league leader Manchester City. It gives Arsenal a little hope after the loss against Chelsea.

Leicester have played some eye-catchy football this season, and have won their five of last six home games in the league. This achievement will be much more satisfying.

Sunderland are now bottom of the Premier League and are without a win all season.

Mourinho even slammed the Frenchman in his pre-match press conference ahead of the tie against Newcastle, suggesting that only one manager in the entire league was not under pressure.

Trailing to goals from Ayoze Perez and Georginio Wijnaldum, the reigning champions looked like suffering a fourth defeat in the space of seven Premier League matches when they were still 2-0 behind with 11 minutes left at St James’ Park.

A flurry of new players, including German world cup victor Bastian Schweinsteiger, who brings an air of authority to the team, and the £38 million rated teen Anthony Martial, who has scored four goals in as many games since he made the controversial move to the Premier League,...

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.

The 19-year-old became the most expensive teenage footballer in the world when the Red Devils forked out a staggering £36-million for his signature on deadline day.

Ranieri was responsible for bringing the 19-year-old to the Principality in 2013 during his time in charge of Monaco, signing him for £3.5 million from Ligue 1 rivals Lyon.

Manchester United sent out a statement that they are ready to compete for the Premier League title by beating Southampton at St Mary’s, according to manager Louis van Gaal.

The victory took Louis van Gaal’s side into second place, two points behind neighbours Manchester City. Before that, he had put impressive performances in against PSV Eindhoven and against Liverpool where he scored a superb solo goal on his debut for United. “We saw...

“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.