You can twist statistics to say a lot of different things, but there’s no denying that Manchester United manager David Moyes received a massive boost tonight with his side’s 1-0 victory against Liverpool in the League Cup thanks to a Chicharito goal.

To put the win into context as far as how the season is going, the boffins at BBC Sport have figured out that Moyes “has now won five of his first eight games in all competitions – the best start of any new United manager since Matt Busby in 1946.”

While the stat is true and impressive, we also have to remember that United have had very few managers since Busby was in charge (seven, in fact, if you include Busby’s second stint as manager from 1970-71). And many of us remember how dreadful Sir Alex Ferguson’s start was to life as a United manager in 1986.

Still, it’s an impressive start to the season especially given tonight’s huge win.

Here are tonight’s world soccer news headlines:

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