Tom Cleverley is pushing for a Manchester United first team breakthrough.
The winger is being kept on at Old Trafford after an impressive preseason, but is yet to taste senior action.
"All I can do is keep playing to my top performance level when I play, whether it's for the Reserves or the first team," he told MUTV. "As long as I keep doing that, hopefully the manager will see I'm doing well and I'll get a couple of chances here and there."
Cleverley was in an extremely strong Reserve team for Tuesday's Manchester Senior Cup victory, and he admitted there was added pressure on United to take the spoils.
"Any game against City is a big one, but in our squad tonight I think we had six internationals and six under-21 internationals or something silly like that, so there was added pressure there," he said. "It was one of the strongest Reserve teams ever.
"We didn't start badly, then they got the goal and we lost our momentum a little bit. But we got one in the first half, kicked on in the second, got a couple of good goals, and it's a good victory."
