Manchester United veteran Juan Mata says there's positives to find from an underwhelming start to the season.

Writing on his blog the Spaniard said United are lacking ruthlessness to kill off teams, such as Southampton, Crystal Palace and Wolves:

“As I told you last week, I decided to move this blog to Wednesdays to get away from talking immediately after the results.

“In fact, I believe that in football today there is a belief (that I don't share) which goes something like this: if you lose, it seems as though you've done everything badly; if you win, it covers up all of the mistakes that you have made.

“In my opinion, you have to look at things by taking a step back from the games themselves, above all in order to improve.

“I believe that at the start of this season we are lacking killer instinct to secure more wins, which is something we obviously need to improve and it's what we will be working on."