Manchester United goalscorer Scott McTominay says the performance for victory at Norwich City has been a long time coming.
McTominay slammed home the opener seconds after a stunning reaction save from Canaries keeper Tim Krul to deny Anthony Martial from close range.
The video assistant referee (VAR) then controversially awarded United a penalty for a Ben Godfrey foul on Daniel James - with Krul stopping Marcus Rashford's kick.
But Rashford scored with United's next attack as he was left in acres of space by the Norwich defence.
United - who move up to seventh in the Premier League - were awarded a second penalty by VAR for a Todd Cantwell handball. This time Martial took it and went the other way, and again Krul guessed correctly.
The Canaries, who remain in the relegation zone, had a couple of chances but United wrapped the game up when Martial clipped the ball over Krul after a good passing move with Rashford.
Norwich scored a late consolation through substitute Onel Hernandez, who took the ball off McTominay before running at United's defence and shooting past David de Gea to becoming the first Cuban-born player to score a Premier League goal.
McTominay said afterwards: We were due to put in a performance like that for 90 minutes. There are still few mistakes in there we need to iron out but it's important we keep the faith and keep putting performances in like that."
On scoring Manchester United's 2000th Premier League goal, he added: That's an incredible feeling and one all my family and friends will be proud of as well. It's an amazing achievement to have under your belt. It was an important goal to get us up and running and after that we followed it up well so that was pleasing."
