Christian Eriksen has helped unleash Bruno Fernandes at Manchester United

If the opening matches of the season have been anything to go by, Manchester United won't get too many chances when they face Arsenal.

Erik ten Hag's side have won three matches in a row, though all of them have been by a one-goal margin; performances that required clinical finishing and determined defending to see out the results.

Another common theme across the three matches has been the impact of Bruno Fernandes. The Portuguese has donned the captain's armband since Harry Maguire was dropped for the visit of Liverpool, and it appears to have inspired him into fine form.

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Fernandes was the architect of that win over Jurgen Klopp's side, grabbing the match by the scruff of the neck with his inspired attacking display, a real throwback performance to his first few months at the club.

He followed that up with a superb strike to secure three points against Southampton last weekend and shone again at Leicester in the week, once again proving to be the talisman for his side.

Just about every United attack involved the 27-year-old's creative spark, from Jadon Sancho's calmly finished goal to Cristiano Ronaldo's overhead kick that went agonisingly wide.

Fernandes is unfairly judged on his ridiculous, and frankly unsustainable, goal involvements during his first year at the club, and too often his performance is graded as a success based on whether or not he scored or got an assist.

What was so refreshing about his display against Leicester was that he didn't have a direct goal involvement, but without him United still wouldn't have won, such was his importance in just about everything the team did well when in possession of the ball.

The bottom line is that Fernandes is still the