Matthijs de Ligt wants Manchester United's forwards to be more prolific after their last-minute win at home to Burnley. The Red Devils required a 97th-minute Bruno Fernandes penalty at the death to keep Old Trafford happy days after Carabao Cup humiliation at the hands of League Two Grimsby Town.
It was United's first win of the new Premier League season after losing at home to Arsenal and drawing at Fulham. Ruben Amorim came into the match with speculation about his future but now goes into the international break with some much-needed momentum. Yet De Ligt wants more from United's frontline after United had 26 shots on goal against Burnley and managed just six on target.
The Dutch defender said: "I think we can improve, maybe in the last phase. That is something really important in the Premier League, to finish the chances, because then it makes playing a little bit easier. We want to improve, we have to improve and we have to try to control the games a little bit more.
"But now we have time to go into a new environment with the national teams." De Ligt insists the manner of United's victory does not matter and that the most important thing was sealing the full three points whatever means necessary.
"I think the only thing that counted today was a win," he added. "Everybody saw how. We know we could have done that better, but the win was the most important thing. I don't think there's much been said [since the Grimsby game] because everybody knows how the feeling was.
"I think everybody from outside could also understand what the feeling is if you lose a game like that. So, yeah, it's not easy. We know that. We were really disappointed, in ourselves especially.
"So then to win was I think the only cure that could a little bit help the defeat of Wednesday. We had a lot of big chances in the first-half and we didn't score all of them, but we created a lot of big chances.
"I think we conceded just one shot from Hannibal [Mejbri], so that was really good. The only thing is that the game is 90 minutes, today even more, so that's something that we have to improve on. But as I said, the only thing that counted was a win, so with that I'm really happy. If you win, that's the best feeling, and we did."
Despite De Ligt's demand for improvement up top, Amorim was impressed with £65million summer signing Bryan Mbeumo who scored United's second goal. The Portuguese coach said: "It was impressive the way he stretched the team. The quality that he has in the first touch, you feel we're a different team, because when we win the ball, we have one guy stretching the team."
While man of the match Mbeumo said himself: "It was really important that we could win and obviously I'm really happy to score my first goal here. We kept going in the game and, at the end, we got the reward. As a striker, it's important to be confident with goals, but we are all a team, it's not only one person."