Fulham 0 Man Utd 3: "We are very lucky to have Paul Pogba" – Chris Smalling greets his teammate who has "everything"

Paul Pogba has "got everything", said Chris Smalling, while Manchester United "is lucky to have a player like him", while he continues to inspire hopes of being among first four in the Premier League.

The World Cup winner helped bring the Red Devils back to the Champions League on his last outing.

Having achieved an impressive number of goals and badists since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took over from Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford, the Frenchman's best talisman record was again against Fulham.

Pogba unlocked the stalemate in a 3-0 win over the Cottagers with an amazing shot from a tight angle, before sealing the three points with a calmly converted penalty.

The listeners continue to rain on a man who had seemed mad under Mourinho, with Smalling telling MUTV from the latest show of the 25-year-old: "He has everything he did not do!

"I think he is showing that and the reason we are on this track is largely due to Paul, for the most part.

"He does not just score goals, he badists goals and he also controls the game. We are very lucky to have a player like him on our team. "

The win at Craven Cottage was a 10th for United in an undefeated 11-game match against Solskjaer.

Confidence returns once again to the entire team, Anthony Cristiano Ronaldo's solo effort on Saturday, highlighting how much the chains have been shaken by the Red Devils.

Smalling said about another French international who had enjoyed a good return in form over the last few weeks: "Especially at the start of the match, we wanted to isolate Anthony against the back.

"After the joy that he had after the first 10 minutes, we just wanted to feed him as soon as possible and now you can see the quality that he has."

With Pogba and Martial inspiring United for a comfortable win on the road, they are now back in the top four for the first time since the opening weekend.

The intention is to stay there, but no one at Old Trafford is getting carried away for the moment because the Solskjaer team is about to argue a series of tests.

They have, however, made up 11 points behind those who seemed to be at a standstill at some point and are determined to marvel at the success of the moment.

"We all knew that our task was arduous and we all thought it would be difficult," Smalling said of a remarkable boost under the orders of an acting chief.

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"We still have a lot of work to do, but the fact that we managed to get those points and catch them so quickly is a credit to the team and the way we played. Now we are in fourth place, it's up to us to lose. "

United is back on Tuesday after hosting Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of the Champions League 16 face-to-face meeting.

They will then face Chelsea in the fifth round of the FA Cup before welcoming their rival rivals, Liverpool, to Old Trafford for a decisive Premier League clash.