Not a spectacular performance, but honestly I think that was a big win. Let's not forget, we lost our last 7 away games in a row with a combined total of 2 goals scored and 21 conceded. We have to rebuild our confidence somehow, and this is a start.
I thought the defence was really good again and the reason for the win. All 4 of them played their part, and Varane, Martinez and Dalot all had shouts for MOTM. Malacia was decent enough as well and that's the one part of the team I think is settled for now.
In midfield we were ok, not great, but made to look a lot worse by there never being a decent outlet up front. They would often get the first pass or two right, but when it then involved one of the front three, it would all go wrong.
Elanga, Sancho and Rashford just didn't work. Elanga and Rashford only look ok when they have acres of space to run into, their link up play and control in tight spaces is just not good enough. Sancho had a bit more time on the ball but was just isolated too often. Basically we couldn't progress our way up the pitch long enough to let the defence and midfield compress the space, so all our attacks lacked numbers. Martial can't come back quick enough, and we really need someone like Antony, who can work in tight spaces.
Still, if sorting this stuff out was easy, RR would have done it last season. There are some deep problems at United to work through and I still think there are signs of progress, especially the way we didn't fold late game.