Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag hailed Casemiro after victory at Bournemouth.

Casemiro struck the only goal on the day at Dean Court.

“He keeps surprising us," said Ten Hag.

“He's such a brilliant football player, we know him as very good organisation, positioning, anticipating, intercepting a lot of balls, winning duels, a fighter, keeping the team together, but also in possession his passing, his distribution, but also finishing. Just a great football player.

“We emphasise a lot and where we train on a lot, it's about the movements when we are in the final third and movements of course has to come from the front line, second line just behind but also from the third line with fullbacks and with Casemiro coming from there.

“The movement is great, the touch from Christian Eriksen I think is great and the finish is brilliant."

Asked if summer signing Casemiro has exceeded expectations, United's manager continued: “Absolutely, by far.

“One of the things that came out of our analysis, we missed a player in the midfield. A strategist and we searched for the strategist – it was not easy because they are not many in that profile who fits to the standard of Manchester United and so we are happy we found him.

“His contribution is massive and I think even we miss him over eight or nine games by suspension. He was in the start of the season, he was not even there, so many games he was not even there, but I think when we played him in midfield it's good in balance. We had a lot of wins with this midfield."