Manchester United player ratings this season so far as two new first-teamers loom

Here are your Manchester United evening headlines for Monday, September 19.

David de Gea

Let some soft goals in against Brighton and Brentford where he looked uncomfortable with the ball at his feet but has recovered respectably with three clean sheets. Made some good saves against Liverpool and Leicester. 6

Diogo Dalot

Only one of two outfield players who have started all eight games and he has improved in defence and attack, helping United keep three clean sheets and assisting Bruno Fernandes at Southampton. 8

Find out how the rest of the squad fared here.

One of the key reasons Manchester United appointed Erik ten Hag this summer was his commitment to giving young players a chance. There is no club in world football with a prestigious history of youth development that comes close to United's and the new manager hasn't taken long to acknowledge that himself.

With no first-team men's match at the weekend, Ten Hag and his assistant Mitchell van der Gaag joined technical director Darren Fletcher and Andy O’Boyle, the club’s deputy director of football, to watch the U21s face West Ham in the Premier League 2.

It was a surprise visit that U21s manager Mark Dempsey had not even been informed of and evidence of the way Ten Hag likes to operate by throwing players into situations at the deep end, to truly gauge their character.

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