Manchester United centre-back Chris Smalling believes that Anthony Martial has handled the pressure of his hefty price tag with aplomb.

Martial became the world's most expensive teenage footballer when he arrived at Old Trafford in a £36million deal from Monaco last summer.

The 20-year-old has scored 14 goals for United this season and the latest one in that tally was his invaluable extra-time winner in the FA Cup semi-final against Everton on Saturday, prompting a positive reaction from Smalling.

"No one is going to have a harder circumstance coming to Old Trafford with the pressure he had and he is performing brilliantly," Smalling said of his teammate.

"A lot of players come with potential but it's how they perform on that stage and luckily enough for us he's taken to it like it's like it's nothing.

"Not many players come in with that amount of pressure and he was relatively unknown to the majority of us so to see him turn up week after week, he's our main attacking threat and he's been brilliant all season.

"Nothing seems to faze him and you can see that when he gets the ball, he's got the beating of anyone no matter who he's playing against.

"More often than not he gets the beating of them and that's great for us because you just want to feed players like that who are constantly that high on confidence all season.

"You can tell in training sessions, his pace, his ability to take on people, after a few training sessions you have to try to suss him out."