Manchester United 2 - 0 Huddersfield Town; 5 Talking Points

#1 Alexis Sanchez targetted, but emerges stronger

Sanchez was hacked at endlessly, but he never gave up

Alexis Sanchez has lost possession of the ball more times against Huddersfield (32) than any other Man United player has in a single Premier League game this season.

Now most people looking at the stat will take it at face value - and simply lambast the Chilean for his "selfish" and "inconsistent" ways. What that stat doesn't reveal though is just how much urgency Alexis Sanchez has injected into the team - most, if not all these dispossessions happened when Sanchez was trying to move the ball forward, the antithesis of the Louis van Gaal 'era'... a time period that still has its impact seen in the safety-first approach of a vast majority of United's passing.

Yes, Sanchez will lose the ball a lot but he will at least be trying to do something meaningful with it. When Mourinho finds a way to play Sanchez, Martial, and Pogba together - United will be a much more threatening unit.

Sanchez, meanwhile, had a good home debut - hacked at all day long by the Terriers, he simply got on with it again and again, and while a scuffed penalty + rebound is hardly the most auspicious of Old Trafford starts, he won't mind it one jot.