Sir Alex Ferguson marvelled at his side's ability to come back from seemingly impossible situations, after a Robin Van Persie hat-trick gave Manchester United a come-from-behind 3-2 win over newly-promoted Southampton at St Mary's.
"We never give up," Ferguson told the club's official website. "Of course, it's in the history books.
"Well done to the lads for coming back. We do that all the time at our club and I expect 10 like that a season so that's one out of the way! It's unbelievable - it really is.
"But we didn't start playing until (Paul) Scholes came onto the pitch with his range of passing, his consistency of passing and his presence turned the game for us.
"I thought we had reasonable control in the first half but lost a goal to a back-post cross, something we worked on all week, but credit to Southampton as they are good at it and put us on the back foot. We got the equaliser through a fantastic goal from Robin and I thought it would give us the opportunity to get our act together in the second half.
"Credit to Southampton, they kept loading the ball forward and played some nice football in midfield. They were the better team when they went 2-1 up but, when Scholes came on, the game changed.
"Robin has got four goals in two starts, which is a great statistic, and he'll get better. Chicharito also came on and made a difference. He started stretching them with fantastic runs off the ball and I was delighted with his performance."
Nigel Adkins was shattered to surrender another lead, after they lost in similar circumstances to Manchester City at the start of the season. "Again, we've put ourselves in a position to pick up points but unfortunately we haven't done," the Southampton manager to Southampton's official website.
"We scored good goals and played some good football at times, the atmosphere in here was bouncing - and that's what we want to produce on a regular occurrence here at St Mary's - but we haven't picked any points up.
"I've just seen the two late goals again now, and they're obviously both from corners. At the end of the day, they've got first contact on two balls into the box and that is the annoying thing."
Adkins reserved special praise for Rickie Lambert, who troubled the United defence time and again. "Rickie Lambert had a superb game for us up front with his physical presence, and he scored an outstanding goal," Adkins said.
"That was something we've talked about and worked on the training ground over the last couple of days - getting players in little pockets to put diagonals in. Jason Puncheon put a superb cross in for Rickie to go and score and, again, Morgan Schneiderlin's goal was an outstanding one.
"From that point of view, it was pleasing but we've got to go and see the game out. We've got to put ourselves in a position to keep more clean sheets because you're going to get punished at this high a level.
"Nathaniel (Clyne) has slipped for the first goal, and van Persie is an outstanding striker - that's why he's got the reputation that he has - so he finished it.
"That's the difference."
