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Manchester United's Luke Shaw has labelled Louis van Gaal an 'inspiration' after making his long-awaited Old Trafford bow.

The England left-back has been out of action with a hamstring injury since his summer arrival but played the full 90 minutes in Saturday's 2-1 win over West Ham.

And after the clash, Shaw paid tribute to Van Gaal for keeping faith and hopes to pay him back in the coming weeks.

He told United's official website: "The injury was a bit of setback but I’ve worked hard in the last weeks and had some talks [with the boss].

"He’s been a great inspiration to me and hopefully I can carry that on. For him to say I’m an example at a massive club like this is something to be really happy about.

"The aim is to win the next three games and carry on producing good performances and getting the points."

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West Ham laid siege to United's goal in the second-half after Wayne Rooney had been dismissed and thought they had levelled through Kevin Nolan - only to be denied by the offside flag.

Replays showed the West Ham skipper was off by the slimmest of margins and Shaw hopes that's an indication that their luck is changing.

He added: "I didn’t know if it was offside. It was close. We haven’t had much luck either with decisions.

"We have actually had a lot of bad luck, even with Wazza’s red card as I would say there was a handball before that but the referee didn’t stop play.

"Obviously, we went down to 10 men and it’s never easy but we all fought hard and showed how much we wanted these three points. It means a lot to us."