GETTY / REUTERS Man Utd boss Jose Mourinho was all praise for David De Gea and Jesse Lingard

Manchester United were at their brilliant best against Arsenal, surviving wave after wave of attacks to prevail 3-1. Jesse Lingard bagged a brace with Antonio Valencia also on target, but the day was soured by the sending off of Pogba. The France international received a straight red for a horror tackle on Gunners defender Hector Bellerin. And Mourinho refused to go into detail after the game, but highlighted the referee's failure to send off Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny for a foul on Romelu Lukaku. “I don’t know. I leave for you that one," the Manchester United boss said. "I leave for you the Lukaku situation with Koscielny, I leave for you the Arsenal players on the grass.

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"The grass is absolutely beautiful - I think there is a desire to go onto the grass.” Mourinho did, however, gush over the way his side performed in the heat of the battle. "I loved the way my team played and fought," he said. "Arsenal played in some period amazing attacking football - creating difficulties for us. "But I have to say that my players deserve all the great words. "I don’t know so many in English but amazing, phenomenal, fantastic. They deserved three points.

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"The plan was when they had the ball we all had to defend - starting with attacking players and when we had the ball we had to counter attack fast and try to score goals which we did. They had chances but we fought and we have a great goalkeeper too." Mourinho also lauded De Gea, who produced some majestic saves to deny the likes of Alexis Sanchez and Alexandre Lacazette. "I told him after the match, what I saw today was the best from a goalkeeper in the world," he said. "You need the keeper to be there for you when the team needs. All the effort from the players was magnificent. "The game, we started in one way and they started in another, then we changed and went down to 10 men and changed again."

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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger was left to rue missed chances, with De Gea making a joint-Premier League record 14 saves during the game. The Gunners were playing catch up after just two minutes in north London. And Wenger was far from happy with the result. "I think we didn’t start well at all at the back and we are guilty of that,” he said. “Despite being 2-0 down we should have come back - we had enough chances. We produced excellent quality, but were not decisive enough. "Psychologically it was a big blow to go 2-0 down so early on - especially at home. We were too on the edge mentally maybe - you cannot be in a game like that. "It was a mystery yes (to not score more), but David de Gea was man of the match by a clear mile. "We played well but there is nothing more frustrating when you have that quality of performance and nothing to show for it at the end. “The attitude was impeccable until the end. But you cannot make the mistakes we made at the beginning."

REUTERS Arsene Wenger refused to discuss the referee's performance