Agree. Particularly the last game before lockdown. We were comfortable throughout that game against a top opponent.
I suppose this is a different kind of good game, the kind we've not seen from United for a long time, and this extends to even Fergie's latter years when the squad was aging and not being replaced with quality.
I refer particularly to the stranglehold on the midfield, and the resulting threat from ball playing forwards.
It reminded me of City/Barca in their pomp a bit, where the opponents slowly but surely had the fight sapped out of them because even when they need to chase the game, they're being so comprehensively dominated by superior players (not necessarily grafting) that they can't touch the ball anyway, and because it's incisive possession (when last could we say this?) they are forced to hopelessly defend anyway to try and keep the score respectable.
I've felt that hopelessness against City and particularly Barca in the past (the final in Wembley where we scored first, but you knew we had no hope of holding on as they dragged us all over the floor in midfield - and that was one of our really prolific United sides!), and I could sense the same hopelessness from Sheffield - it was a masterclass we've not seen from United in years.
You get this when you have midfield players that are not only experts in creative vision and passing, but who also have the skill and speed to take on and beat players that try to get close, and thus create space because other opposing defenders have to choose to either break their shape to cover for their beaten colleague, or hold and let the free midfield player have a clear path at goal