This is how a Manchester United team should play. With some confidence, ambition and decisiveness. Expressive and attractive with the ball and resolute without it.
When you see Ruben Amorim’s team function like this – as they occasionally have during his year in charge – it can be difficult to work out why they often make it look so darned hard.
So the challenge now is set. Do it again when they go to Anfield to face the Premier League champions the other side of the international break and then build a season from there.