Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says pressing will be key to any success they enjoy this new season.

Solskjaer says his team will play with intensity off the ball.

"I'm gradually forming the team that will start our first Premier League game," he says. "The first four or five games, you have a week in between so it's not like you have to rotate too much.

"It's about players grabbing their chances because you can't leave out players doing well. That is the way I fought my way into the United team. I scored goals and made it more and more difficult for him [Ferguson] to leave me out.

"I was criticised last season for playing the same team too often, being too hard on them and asking to run more. We ended up with a few injuries so maybe I should have rotated. But pre-season is about laying good foundations so they won't need to have that rest.

"The stats say my first game in charge, at Cardiff, was the second-highest in intensity of pressing in any Premier League game last season. That work rate hit us in the end but now we have a chance because of what the players have done in three weeks of training.

"They had their programmes over the summer and it seems like they did them because they were fit when they came in, most of them."