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I remember Sir Alex Ferguson saying he could count on one hand the number of times all 11 players in his starting line-up were on top of their game.

His philosophy was if you had maybe eight players performing to their maximum, they could carry the other three who may have been a shade off their best, and it is difficult to argue that this is usually the case.

It formed part of his inspirational speech about Canadian geese flying in formation when migrating and shifting positions to share the workload. Many a former United player will tell you they have heard this analogy!

Well, it seemed to me, having watched an awful lot of United matches over the years, that Tuesday's 2-1 win at Paris Saint-Germain could arguably fit into this rare category as, to a man, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Reds were superb.