Manchester United 3-0 Stoke City: 5 Talking Points

#3 Paul Pobga. Oh, Paul Pogba.

General Paul Pogba was exceptional in midfield

By far the best player on the pitch on the night (as with most nights), Paul Pogba's lazy athleticism and incisive vision helped United take the game away from their guests - and his numbers make for some very interesting reading.

The Frenchman is now tied on the top of the Premier League assists charts with Kevin de Bruyne and Leroy Sane (9 assists) - thing is Pogba has played just 1172 PL minutes compared to Sane's 1456 and de Bruyne's 1964.

While the two assists he notched up in this game seemed to be fairly straightforward ones - more down to the goalscorer's individual talent than anything else - they weren't as simple as they looked.

The first one for Valencia involved him bullying Ireland away, and bending the ball away from Choupo-Moting with the outside of his boot, while in the second one to Martial he stood still, assessed his options, drew defenders to him before playing the pass with just the right weight on it.

United are yet to lose a PL game this season when Pogba has featured, and it's easy to see why.

The effervescent Aakanksh Sanketh wrote at the beginning of the season, Paul Pogba is here to take over the league - and were it not for those 10 games he missed, United might not have been so far adrift of their noisy neighbours.