United had endured a 644-day absence from European football's top table ahead of Tuesday’s game, but they announced their return with a bang as Marouane Fellaini, Romelu Lukaku and Marcus Rashford completed a comfortable 3-0 victory.
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Mourinho’s new-look side have started the season in rampant form – scoring 15 goals in just five games. Many are tipping them as favourites for the Premier League title and Parker believes they are also serious challengers in the Champions League too – thanks to Mourinho’s fast work to make the Red Devils a ruthless force once again.
“There’s a big difference between the team of last season, which were the draw specialists, to the team this season,” the former United and England defender told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast.
“They’re killing teams off. They could go and just win a game 1-0, but instead they win by three or four just by sheer power. They dominate teams by sheer strength.
“Manchester United got that fear factor back again, and they’ve got it back very quickly [under Jose Mourinho].
“I think they can get even stronger in the Champions League.
“If they get through the group stages, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic to come back as well, I just think he’s going to make that much difference to the team in the knock-out stages.”
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