THEIR embarrassing away form had to end eventually.
And despite a fair amount of pessimism from Manchester United fans ahead of this trip to Norfolk, they really should not have worried.
For the first time since their 3-1 win at Crystal Palace in February, United won in the Premier League away from home.
Finally Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was able to look forward to the trip back to Manchester.
The only difficulty is to decide how good a win this actually was. Norwich were so bad, their defending so laughable and every other team in the top-flight would have scored a few.
United certainly took positive steps with the 1-1 draw at Liverpool and Europa League win in Belgrade.
While Solskjaer changed back to a flat back four, he could not have possibly expected his team to win so impressively. They could have been 5-0 up at half-time
SPOT OF BOTHER
Tim Krul delivered arguably the save of the season to keep out a header from Anthony Martial but was then comfortably beaten by Scott McTominay.
Marcus Rashford delivered a poor penalty even though Krul was three yards off his line but then produced a much better finish for 2-0.
While Krul saved another excellent spot-kick save to deny Martial, the Frenchman made it 3-0 by combining brilliantly with Rashford.
During this period in the second half, Solskjaer kept telling his players to calm down and they were listening.
The only blip was Onel Hernandezs strike at the end.
Next, United have Chelsea in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday before yet another away game, this time at Bournemouth on Saturday lunchtime.
While their future opposing defences will be tougher, United can still take a hell of a lot of confidence from this game.
And you would like to think it will not be another eight months before they manage another away League win.
