I mean you have got to be pleased for Miggy Almiron. You really have. He plays with so much willingness, so much relentless sacrifice that you will him to become the player he was bought to be.
And here was his reward. It was the day he became Newcastle's Smiling Assassin. At long last Almiron added end product to his ready running and team work. Two goals no less at Fulham and only denied a hat-trick following another quality finish by a correctly raised assistant's flag.
That Miggy would do it more often. Produce such a telling impact. I have been critical of much huff and puff but little in the way of clinical impute - goals or assists - and I will continue to push for more consistency because he has been well short but, hey, this was a significant step in the right direction for such an infectious character.
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Perhaps the little man likes to deal mainly in top quality goals. He notched only once all last season but it was a worldie to defeat Crystal Palace and here his first was in that super class, struck audaciously with the outside of his left boot.
However amid all the splashing of celebratory champagne let me stress that by the high standards of top flight football Miggy needs to produce much more regularly in the final third. He needs to take the confidence gained at Craven Cottage into the glut of games coming up before the World Cup break.
Newcastle started in the capital without top guns Alexander Isak, Allan Saint-Maximin and Joelinton and finished without Callum Wilson, Bruno Guimaraes and a recognised centre-forward but still cruised to a 4-1 scoreline.
They could afford to protect the fragile limbs of their returning pair and not even bother to call upon another injury struck central striker Chris Wood.
The long wait from the opening day of the season for a second victory was over and so was Fulham's unbeaten home record.
Oh and before any Cottagers dare suggest United won only because Fulham were unluckily reduced to 10 men as early as the sixth minute let them look within their own ranks to proportion blame. This was suicide. Nathaniel Chalobah was deservedly sent off for felling Sean Longstaff and the only surprise was that it took VAR's intervention to change the mind of referee Darren England who swapped yellow for red.
The mood United were in I am convinced that Fulham with 11 men would never have stemmed the flow of the tide for a full hour and a half.
Consequently United's stats look so much healthier - but one defeat in eight matches and a modest goals record of eight from seven outings boosted to a round dozen. Only champions Manchester City have lost fewer games than NUFC.
Now let us go on and sting the Busy Bees of Brentford up here at the weekend and establish United where they should be, well up the higher reaches of the Premier League mountain.
Fulham have always been vulnerable defensively and with two new full-backs drafted into their rearguard they invited Almiron and Jacob Murphy to get at them in behind. The offer was readily accepted, supplied by sound midfield prompting.
Maybe at 3-0 up by the interval the wish would have been to tot up more goals in the second-half but two good finishes by Almiron and sub Ryan Fraser were chalked off for offside and, besides, let us not be picky when such a scoreline would have been greedily accepted before kick off given that the likes of Maxi, Isak and Big Joe were missing.
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