Manchester United teenager Alejandro Garnacho struck in the dying stages of the second to guide his side to a 2-1 win over Fulham on Sunday evening.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Antony, Diogo Dalot and Jadon Sancho missed out for the Red Devils, with Tyrell Malacia, Bruno Fernandes, Anthony Elanga and Anthony Martial returned to the line-up.
United showed a decisive nature 14 minutes in and were ahead when a square pass from Fernandes allocated a sliding Christian Eriksen at the back-post and the Dane profited from close-range.
The visitors orchestrated further chances a little later with Marcus Rashford bearing down on goal from a ball in space and brought a close-range stop from goalkeeper Bernd Leno.
It was a lively closing few minutes to halftime and the Red Devils should've had a second goal with a first-time effort at the far post by Eriksen, but he went wide following a ball from the right-side.
A couple minutes after halftime, Leno smothered a rasping drive from Eriksen on the left before thwarting Rashford on the follow-up which deflected away for a corner-kick.
The action shifted to the other end and a magnificent acrobatic stop from De Gea palmed Tim Ream's towering header shortly after he had parried Carlos Vinicius' shot-on-the-turn from close-range.
Fulham launched further in-roads out wide and levelled when a low cutback from the left by Tom Cairney found an on-rushing Daniel James, who tapped home against his former side.
James closed-in on a brace minutes later when attacked a loose ball and launched an acrobatic overhead kick following a corner, but De Gea parried whilst Alejandro Garnacho replaced Martial.
The Red Devils pushed for the winner in the closing stages and were rewarded when Garnacho combined with Eriksen before firing into the far corner with a low strike.
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