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Man Utd legend thinks we can win Premier League

Manchester United legend Bryan Robson believes that we can win the Premier League this season.

Last season Jose Mourinho guided us to a sixth place finish, some 24 points behind champions Chelsea, drawing 15 games, of which 10 were at Old Trafford.

We’ve made an excellent start to the new season with 4-0 thrashings of both West Ham United and Swansea City before a hard fought 2-0 win over Leicester City on Saturday.  The Red Devils are now the only team with a 100% win record left in the 2017-18 Premier League season after three games.

Speaking after the Leicester game on Saturday, former United captain Bryan Robson believed we have what it takes to challenge for the title this season.  Robson said:

“We’ve got pace, we’ve got power, but we’ve also got quality players.

“That helps to try and win titles, but Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham these sort of teams are top-class teams.

“You’ve got to compete against them and do well against them, but I am quite confident that the boys can do that this year and we can compete against the best.”

Romelu Lukaku has so far proven to be an excellent acquisition with three goals in his first three Premier League games for us.  Nemanja Matic and Paul Pogba offer us the power in midfield that Robson is referring to, whilst Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial, Ashley Young and Luke Shaw all offer us pace out wide.

We have had six different goalscorers in our first three games this season, whilst we also have Zlatan Ibrahimovic to return in January.  Juan Mata and Henrikh Mkhitaryan still have goals to offer us as well.

Phil Jones and Eric Bailly have looked solid at the back in our opening three games but how long that will last remains to be seen.  We still have summer signing Victor Lindelof to bed in, whilst Chris Smalling and Marcos Rojo are still on our books.