The 4-0 opening-day victory over Chelsea was, obviously, a brilliant way for us to begin the campaign, while we came away from a tricky trip to Molineux with an encouraging 1-1 draw.
A home defeat to Crystal Palace and Saturday’s point at Southampton may have been frustrating, but a look at some underlying numbers suggests that the Reds have a decent platform to build on once the players return from national-team duty.
In each of our four matches so far, United have significantly outperformed our opponents in terms of xG, or Expected Goals, a metric created by data specialists Opta which is also used by the BBC in their post-match analysis.