Manchester United will be looking to close the gap on the top four sides on Saturday with a win over Burnley at Old Trafford.
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho feels recent criticism is unwarranted, despite losing 4-0 to former club Chelsea in the most recent league fixture, but has backed the Red Devils to hit top form soon.
"In the last seven matches, we lost one,"Mourinho said. "It's better to lose one match 4-0 than four matches 1-0. It's three points.
"Our run of results is not bad. We lost two points against Stoke, which was the best match by far in our season in terms of chance creation and opportunities.
"We are a team in process, we won't do that in three or four months, in this moment we just think about it game by game and Burnley will be very difficult."
Burnley manager Sean Dyche admits his newly-promoted men, who have picked up impressive wins over Watford and Everton recently, are up against one of the best teams in world football.
"For all the noise that's been made about the ups and downs of Manchester United over the past couple of weeks they're still a fine side.
"I look at the manager, the club, the players they've got and they're still a super strong group of people operating at the highest level."
United centre-back Eric Bailly will be out for around two months after suffering a knee injury in the defeat by Chelsea last weekend - Chris Smalling and Wayne Rooney could return after missing the midweek win over Manchester City.
Burnley striker Andre Gray is available again after serving a four-match ban for homophobic social media posts while George Boyd has recovered from a knee injury and Steven Defour will face a late fitness test after a hamstring problem.
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