Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was pleased to see Manchester United get back to winning ways, even if their previous performances have been “miles better” than Saturday’s against previously unbeaten Leicester.

With draws at Wolves and Southampton book-ending a chastening home loss to Crystal Palace, the Red Devils enjoyed a timely shot in the arm on their return from the international break.

Missed penalties cost United dearly in two of those matches, but Marcus Rashford made no mistake from at Old Trafford, with his early spot-kick proving the difference in a hard-fought 1-0 win.

“Our idea was to get on the front foot and we ended up putting ourselves on the back foot and then we obviously conceded a penalty early on, which isn’t ideal. But we grew into the game…last 15  minutes of the first half.

“We spoke at half-time that we have to have that belief and courage to play and then we were much quicker and much better through the thirds then.

“We just needed that final little pass or something to drop for us in the box and I felt we could have then got a deserved point but it wasn’t to be – but lots of lessons for us.”