straight to your inbox every day for free Luke Shaw put his recent form down to the competition for places at Manchester United after the summer addition of Brazil international Alex Telles.
United shelled out £15.4million to sign Telles from Porto in the summer but his arrival has led to Shaw raising his game once again and the 25-year-old is arguably in the best form of his Old Trafford career.
He kept Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane quiet in United's goalless draw at Anfield to continue his rich vein of form and he created United's best chance of the contest with a driving run down the left.
A year ago Ole Gunnar Solskjaer claimed Shaw could be the best left-back in England, a claim that looked fanciful then but is beginning to have some.
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