Chris Smalling and Victor Lindelof will partner at the centre of Manchester United's defence against unbeaten Watford. Ashley Young slots in at left-back to replace Luke Shaw who suffered a concussion during an international duty against Spain.<doc-sep>Everything you need to know ahead of the Premier League clash at Vicarage Road on Saturday After a convincing victory at Burnley last time out, Jose Mourinho was asked whether Manchester United might have been hoping to get straight back out on the field rather than having to see out an international break before their trip to Watford on Saturday. "I would like to play, but I think also Watford would like to play," he told reporters. "Because they also have the momentum of leading after four matches, four victories." And therein lies the difference between the two sides heading into the fixture at Vicarage Road on Saturday, with United playing catch-up after losing two of their opening four games and Javi Gracia's side flying high alongside Liverpool and Chelsea with a 100 per-cent record. United will be looking to pocket three crucial points from the trip south before travelling to Switzerland for the start of their Champions League campaign against Young Boys on Wednesday. Man Utd Injuries Luke Shaw ought to miss out after suffering concussion following a heavy knock playing for England against Spain, but United are hopeful he could return after receiving treatment in the club's special medical facility. Marouane Fellaini missed out on Belgium duty completely due to a minor back problem, while Phil Jones was absent from the trip to Burnley due to hamstring trouble. Diogo Dalot, though, could make his United debut having come through an under-23s fixture with no adverse effects. Sergio Romero is in contention for his first squad call-up of the season after being an unused substitute in both of Argentina's games during the international break. Man Utd Suspensions Marcus Rashford misses the next three Premier League games having been sent off against Burnley for a retaliatory head-butt. Man Utd Starting Line-Up The question mark over Marouane Fellaini could force Jose Mourinho into one change in midfield, while Luke Shaw's concussion would see United needing to make a second alteration to the side which won at Burnley. If both miss out then one of Fred and Ander Herrera is likely to step up into midfield, while Ashley Young should make his second start of the season - and first at left-back - in place of Shaw. Otherwise Mourinho is unlikely to make too many changes to his winning XI. Watford Team News Javi Gracia's Hornets have stunned almost everyone by getting off to a flying start in 2018-19, registering four wins from their opening four Premier League games. Last time out they came from behind to beat Tottenham 2-1 at Vicarage Road, ending Spurs' 100 per-cent start. Gracia has enjoyed the luxury of being able to pick the same starting XI for all four of their Premier League games so far, meaning Troy Deeney and Andre Gray are settled as Watford's strike partnership while Roberto Pereyra has been given the freedom to pull up trees with his excellent form from midfield. The ex-Udinese and Juventus star has three goals to his name already. Article continues below Elsewhere, Christian Kabasele and Abdoulaye Doucoure have been in scintillating form down the spine of the side, and United will be wary of a Watford side coming into Saturday's game full of confidence. TV Channel & Kick-off time The match at Vicarage Road kicks off at 5:30pm BST on Saturday, with live coverage in the UK provided on BT Sport 1 from 5pm. In the U.S. the game will be shown on NBCSN at 12:30pm ET. Best Opta Match facts<doc-sep>Get the latest United updates, transfer news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Jose Mourinho demanded 'respect' from his adversaries last month and received it from the Vicarage Road MC. Erasure's 'A Little Respect' played the teams off and the appreciation for Manchester United might be more widespread after their second successive win ended Watford's winning start. Mourinho was again serenaded heartily by the United following before the game and his side now have as many points as the capital's media darlings Tottenham. Reports of Mourinho's demise were greatly exaggerated. As United supporters rocked to 'Something tells me I'm into something good' in the Vicarage Road Family Stand, there was little to contest. Since Brighton, Mourinho has got United 'playing the way United should', albeit with some caveats. Sceptics will doubtless pinpoint the emphasis on set-pieces but that would be a disservice to United's probing attacking football. United did daftly seem to declare at 2-0, which merely invited Watford to score through Andre Gray. United's decision to protect their lead rather than expand it was not appreciated by some of those stood in the away end. The decision-making was so lax at times it seemed United's forwards comprised of freestylers and futsal players. Anthony Martial replaced Jesse Lingard and ceded possession the first two times he received the ball. Mourinho came to distrust the forwards so much Alexis Sanchez was withdrawn for Scott McTominay in the 84th minute. Sanchez was fortunate not to have been withdrawn earlier. Mourinho had rounded on the under-performing Chilean for not sensing danger at a short corner and the only response it elicited was a disallowed goal and a game effort that Ben Foster parried away. Those both occurred in the first period on what was an encouraging afternoon for Martial and the suspended Marcus Rashford. McTominay's inclusion - as a right winger - intensified the nerves that Mourinho had detected. Martial was applauded despite an errant pass, as was Fellaini, who attempted to hide his bushy noggin inside his shirt after he found the advertising hoarding. Mourinho's concern could be gauged by his traffic control miming in the technical area. McTominay is not the cure to United's right flank ills. The nerves jangled a little more with Nemanja Matic's red card and David de Gea denied Watford a point with another stupendous stop for his bulging catalogue. The dramatic ending prompted Mourinho to step onto the pitch, clenching his fists and applauding the raucous away supporters for the second game running. Clad in Evening News pink again, Romelu Lukaku scored again to complete his atonement. Those squandered chances against Brighton and Tottenham preceded the opener at Burnley and then at Watford, where a poacher's finish came via his thigh. It could have unravelled again. Lukaku miscontrolled in the second minute and four minutes later intercepted a through ball intended for Lingard, who despaired at Lukaku's intervention. He recovered 10 minutes before the pause to seize on Ben Foster's hesitancy and steer in Ashley Young's centre. Lukaku has that enviable knack strikers yearn for in that he scores while under-performing. It was the case at Brighton and Burnley and it is a skill his number nine predecessor Zlatan Ibrahimovic became synonymous with at United. Though it was Lukaku's goal that separated the sides the difference was Young. Only playing due to the enforced withdrawal of Luke Shaw, Young's far-post set-pieces towards Fellaini derived two goals in almost as many minutes to deflate Watford. Young scored twice at Watford last term and while Shaw is the obvious and more natural left-back Young, at 33, remains the outstanding crosser in a United squad devoid of recognisable wingers. His initial hoik for Fellaini ended up at the opposite side of the area, where Chris Smalling regained the ball and laid it off for Young, who showcased his variety with a left-footed assist for Lukaku. If the first was somewhat scrappy then the second was a scorcher. Fellaini set off before Young floated his corner towards the far post, the Belgian nodded the ball into the six-yard area and Smalling chested it, swivelled and lashed the ball in on the volley. Smalling has tallied more United goals this calendar year than Martial and as many as Rashford. Lindelof was making his fourth league start, having lined-up on the same ground in November. That was just his third full appearance in the Premier League. He regularly called for calmness in the backline yet those words fell on deaf ears as Smalling refused to stoop for a header, Fellaini attempted a clumsy dribble and Troy Deeney seized upon the loose ball to test De Gea on 16 minutes. Appreciation for that save intensified with Lukaku's breakthrough. As it did for the United number nine, who raced back into his own third to execute a sliding tackle in the 90th minute. "Rom-Rom-Romelu, Romelu Lukaku," hollered the United fans. "Man United's number nine, Romelu Lukaku." Ample respect. Get all the latest Manchester United news first with our new app. Download it here now<doc-sep>Jose Mourinho says Manchester United "should have killed the game" against Watford in the first half of their 2-1 win in the Premier League. Romelu Lukaku and Chris Smalling scored within three minutes of each other in the opening period, with Andre Gray netting in the second half for the Hornets, but they could not maintain their winning start to the season. While Mourinho was pleased with how his side performed, he felt they should have rounded off their victory in a more emphatic fashion as they had the better of the first half play. Man Utd halt Watford charge Watford 1-2 Man Utd recap "I am very happy with the points. I am very happy with something that represents for me the spirit of the team, which is Lukaku's sliding tackle after 50 metres running back to help the team. But I feel a bit frustrated because we had everything in the first half to kill the game," he said. "I think if we play the second half the way we did in the last part of the first half, we would be in this moment with a completely different result and without the last 10 minutes. "But no, in the beginning of the second half, we let the game go down in intensity, we stopped being aggressive with and without the ball. We gave them the chance to score a goal and to give ourselves a difficult match." United ended the game with 10 men after Nemanja Matic was sent off for a second yellow card in the 93rd minute, although Mourinho had nothing but praise for the officials despite the red card. Image: Chris Smalling scored the second goal for United at Vicarage Road "I don't know [if it was a sending off]. The only thing I know is Mike Dean was very good and the assistants were very good. Paul Tierney on the touchline, he was very good too. "It was an easy job for Paul because me and Javi [Gracia], we didn't create any problems but they did a very good job, and if it is a yellow or not, I don't know. It is too far for me."<doc-sep>
David De Gea produced a fantastic save to help Manchester United beat Watford (Picture: Getty) Jose Mourinho says Manchester United’s David de Gea showed once again why he is ‘the best’ with his superb injury-time save against Watford on Saturday. The Red Devils claimed back-to-back Premier League victories and condemned Watford to their first defeat of the season with a 2-1 win at Vicarage Road. United led 2-0 at half-time thanks to first-half goals from Romelu Lukaku and Chris Smalling. Watford halved the deficit midway through the second half through Andre Gray and pushed for an equaliser towards the end of the match as Nemanja Matic was sent off for a second yellow card. Christian Kabasele almost found the equaliser in injury-time but his header was pushed wide by De Gea. Reacting to his goalkeeper’s excellent save, Mourinho said: ‘That is the reason why he is the best. Jose Mourinho heaped praise on United’s No.1 (Picture: Getty) ‘That is why he is Manchester United’s goalkeeper and when you are goalkeeper of a big team, even if you don’t touch the ball for the whole game you have to be decisive.’ On his team’s overall display at Watford, Mourinho added: ‘Very important. With this win we keep the same points as Spurs and Arsenal. ‘We have that distance of four and six points to the other top teams, if we don’t win this match obviously that distance goes a little more. ‘They are a good team, they know how to create problems to the top teams. And I told the players at half-time that it could be a match to win four or five nil, or to be in real trouble. ‘In the second half we decreased our intensity, then the goal happened, then the game is open. ‘I think this last Romelu Lukaku tackle as a right-back shows everything. I think he is the image of the team, a team that played very well in long periods in the first half. ‘But we had the experience also here last season where they don’t give up and when the game is open they believe.’ MORE : Romelu Lukaku reveals what Jose Mourinho said at half-time during Watford win