Solskjaer: Mason Greenwood and Bruno Fernandes 'brilliant' at Brighton

The Norwegian said in a post-match interview his team put in an impressive performance against Brighton which puts them back into fifth place and leaves Brighton remaining six points above the relegation zone.

Eighteen-year-old striker Mason Greenwood opened the scoring for United in the 16th minute after cutting in from the right hand side onto his left foot and drilling a low shot through the legs of Lewis Dunk and past a helpless Maty Ryan at the near post.

Gary Neville compared the young Englishmen's technique to former United striker Robin Van Persie.

"Mason's first goal was brilliant and he played fantastically. He's a special kid, we know when he gets faced up he looks dangerous. His link up play was great today." Solksjaer said.

"He's got a knack of that, he can go inside or outside, he is developing into a fine player. We know we have pace and we want to counter quickly, it was a fantastic goal [the third goal], we are very happy with it."

United's Bruno Fernandes continues to impress in the Premier League and chipped in with his fourth and fifth league goal since his move in January.

Fernandes was on hand to side foot Paul Pogba's edge of the box lay-off, which took a deflection off of Alexis Mac Allister and wrong-footing Maty Ryan on the 26th minute.

United rounded off a sharp performance in the 50th minute with a quick counter attack. A strong head out of defence from Harry Maguire landed at the feet of Nemanja Matic in midfield, who pinged a delightful cross-field pass to a breaking Greenwood, who stood a cross up to the back post for Fernandes to volley into the Brighton net.

The Manchester United manager singled out man-of-the-match Bruno Fernandes for praise after his brace helped move two points behind Chelsea, occupying the final Champions League spot.

Solksjaer said, "Bruno has come and been fantastic. He has brought that winning mentality with him, that 99% is not good enough - it has to be 100%.