Real Sociedad 0-0 Manchester United: Five talking points

Kagawa looks far more comfortable playing centrally behind the striker

Kagawa did well

Moyes started the game with Valencia and Kagawa occupying the two wings. As the game went on, Valencia hugged the right touch line and got down the line at every possible opportunity, whereas Kagawa drifted in field, leaving a lot of space open for Evra to bomb past him on the left flank. And the Japanese playmaker had one of his better game for United and some of his combination play with Evra, were akin to the left sided combination play of Pienaar and Baines from Moyes’s Everton days.

The presence of Rooney means that Kagawa is likely to play on the left a lot more, but when both Rooney and Hernandez were taken off in the second half to be replaced by Van Persie and Young, Kagawa played just behind Van Persie, in the role that he is much more comfortable in and that clearly showed. As soon as he moved into the middle, he got into the game a whole lot more and played more than his fair share of telling passes and in all honesty, looked a different player. Moyes has some decisions to make, when picks out his side for the game against Arsenal.