“Now I feel the players are mentally and physically more robust to be able to do it.”

Meanwhile, Rashford agrees with his manager that it is far too early to be talking of a title challenge.

“For us, we can’t look too far ahead,” the England star said.

“We are a team that is still doing a lot of work on ourselves. To be looking at the table so early is stupid. We have to take it one game at a time.”