That a Manchester United side boasting world-record signing Paul Pogba have won their opening two games of the Premier League season is no surprise — but that newly-promoted Hull City have done so certainly is.
United, managed by Jose Mourinho, who guided Chelsea to several English titles, splashed out £89 million (105 million euros, $116 million) to bring midfielder Pogba back from Juventus and have since beaten both Bournemouth and Southampton.
Hull, by contrast, have no permanent manager, a squad of just 13 fit players and no new signings, while the owners of the northern club are contemplating a sale.
Yet despite all that, Hull, who only won promotion via the play-offs, have beaten Premier League champions Leicester and Swansea to join United, along with fellow heavyweights Manchester City and Chelsea, as just one of four teams to make a perfect start in English football’s top-flight this season.
Something, however, will have to give in terms of a 100 percent league record when Hull, under the caretaker charge of Mike Phelan — a former United player who then moved onto the coaching staff to work alongside manager Alex Ferguson as the silverware piled up at Old Trafford –- meet Mourinho’s men at the KCOM Stadium on Saturday.
United have look re-vitalised under their Portuguese, while pre-season signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic has not wasted any time in making his mark.
The 34-year-old superstar striker, recruited on a free transfer after leaving Paris St Germain, has scored four times in his first three United games, including their Community Shield win over Leicester.
Should he extend his run at Hull, former Sweden international Ibrahimovic will become the first United player in 91 years, and only the second in all, to score in his first four matches for the club.
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