Moyes Backs Creative Talents

David Moyes has backed the attacking talents of Juan Mata, Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie to help Manchester United return to winning ways.

Saturday's visit to The Hawthorns to face West Brom is the Reds' first outing since the below-par performance in the Champions League defeat to Olympiacos last week, and while the manager wants all areas of the team's play to improve he feels the way the club's record signing has settled in bodes well for an upturn in fortunes.

"I think the key is to improve all things," said Moyes. "I want creativity and think the introduction of Juan Mata and his interplay with Rooney and Robin that I've seen recently has helped that creativity.

"I want to make sure when the creative players aren't getting goals, or the chances aren't coming, we keep the back door shut and don't concede because then we have to chase the game.

"We need to get back to creating more opportunities than we have done. We've played quite well in games but not scored and taken our chances. Teams have maybe defended and counter-attacked and we've lost a goal and are having to chase the game a bit more.

“When we've tended to score first, we've gone on to get positive results. Our play at times, I think, has been good but I don't think we've had the results and we need to get the results to improve, that's for sure."