Manchester United earned a hard-fought 2-1 away win over West Bromwich Albion on Sunday.

Romelu Lukaku headed home the opening goal, and like against Bournemouth during last week, refused to celebrate.

Jesse Lingard then doubled the advantage before the half-time whistle.

Gareth Barry scrambled the ball in to give the Baggies some hope, but it was not to be.

"I think we deserved the win," said Red Devils boss Jose Mourinho. "We were the best team. I knew and the players knew that West Brom are very dangerous on set-pieces.

"We controlled the game for a long, long time, then manager Alan Pardew reacts. We had a few chances to kill the game but I knew they would react."

"We played very well and not even the last minutes made me feel that we didn't play well because that can happen.

"You play against a team that is very strong on set-pieces, a team that is playing at home, a team that was bad but a goal brought them to the game and brought the emotion of the game and the motivation of the fans too.

"So that reaction is normal but I'm happy with the global performance and the individual effort of the players."

"I think the good quality of the team was to keep control of the game for the majority of the game.

"We knew they [West Brom] could score out of nothing. We knew the advantage of them in terms of height and strength in set-pieces, having a few [players] who are not small guys.

"We knew that could happen but a good thing was after that we were calm and we played.

'You could even see a kid like Scott [McTominay] coming into the game and being intelligent and making the right decisions to keep possession of the ball, so a massive three points for us."