Manchester United vs Burnley, 5 Key Talking Points

#4 Burnley's set-piece prowess to the fore as they respond to Spurs humiliation

Steven Defour stands and admires his excellent handiwork

After getting whipped by Tottenham Hotspur at home, many suspected Burnley's early season momentum had run out of fuel, but they couldn't have been more wrong.

While it was their set-piece expertise that gave them the lead in the first half - the first a tap-in for Ashley Barnes after Johann Berg Gudmundsson's delivery caused all sorts of hell to break out in United's six-yard box, the second a sublime Steven Defour freekick from twenty-five yards... the kind that David Beckham used to whip into the top-corner time and again on this ground - they also looked good off the ball and in possession of it, the latter especially true in the first half when they showed more attacking intent.

While they did concede two goals to Jesse Lingard's astute finishing, they weren't all that troubled by the wave after wave of United attacks that broke on them, with Ben Mee and Kevin Long especially showing what makes Burnley's defence so mean - and every one of their outfielders ran their socks off and made United's life as hard as possible.