Man Utd head into the international break on the back of two consecutive victories and more importantly, four genuinely good performances, counting the draws against Arsenal and away at Sociedad.

Players have stepped up and made themselves counted as they become used to Ruben Amorim’s system and its demands from them.

One of those players have gone slightly under the radar but he’d be feeling the most vindicated now because he caught the brunt of fire, with Paul Scholes at the head of that queue.

Many of United’s summer signings have come under fire and, at times, rightly so, because the team is on course to finish its worst-ever Premier League season.

However, there have been mitigating circumstances and each player signed in the summer has shown enough glimpses to prove they have a future at the club.

Now that the results are also turning around, there’s no need to put forward the mitigating circumstances to soften the criticism, or at least give it context.

Speaking on The Overlap, Paul Scholes gave Matthijs de Ligt his flowers, something that is quite big because Scholes has been brutal on De Ligt previously.