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Louis van Gaal was delighted after Manchester United showed their mettle at both ends of the pitch to edge past Everton on Sunday.
The Red Devils recorded back-to-back wins for the first time since Van Gaal tok charge after Radamel Falcao's second-half winner at Old Trafford.
The Dutchman was full of praise for David de Gea and Angel di Maria, and said: "When you hold the penalty out in the dying seconds you hold three magnificent saves, then you are great because you win the game because of that.
"When you give assists and also you score goals, what can you ask more of a player?
"But of course we have to improve in a lot of things and also Di Maria has to improve. When you do that every week - and he does that every week - then we have to be very pleased with him."
Van Gaal hopes his side can continue to play their game into the second half, stressing that his men usually play better over the first 45 minutes.
He added: "It's a little bit strange that every time the first half is very good, we start very good. We have created a lot of chances and I think in the first half we could have (been) 3-0 at half-time and Everton didn't create any chance - maybe the one off (Romelu) Lukaku but I don't think so.
"And the the second half is so different, also with 11 players so I have changed to maintain the organisation and in spite of that, we were not in our organisation any more and that's a pity because normally you can create a lot of chances because Everton want to score and then the space for our attack is very big but we don't take profit of it."
