Every Europa League game a 'final' for Man United - Shaw

"I've got a huge grin on my face", Shaw said.

"It was great to have got 60 minutes under my belt away at Sunderland".

"You need these players sometimes to make it and normally every top team has a couple of them that can make a difference". Everyone is training hard and I am trying to impress the manager because the games at the end are the big games.

"I feel really good, I feel really confident". I just want to work hard in training and keep playing games.

"I wish to be at this spot and hopefully I will carry on giving great performances for the team before the conclusion of the season".

They were United's first ever European opponents in the 1956/57 European Cup and following a 2-0 win in Brussels, the Red Devils recorded what remains their record European victory - a 10-0 thumping played at City's Maine Road as Old Trafford didn't have any floodlights.

"Most of the players in Manchester United are young - we are here to learn", he told the Premier League's official website.

Mourinho's men continue their tilt at continental trophy success when they face Anderlecht on Thursday - a trip to Belgium that Shaw, back from the cold, says they approach brimming with confidence.

Sunderland face West Ham United at the Stadium of Light on Saturday and Moyes insisted he can not ask for more from his players despite the team having won only one match since December.

Now the England global needs more match time with United fighting to complete in the top four and secure Champions League soccer.

"Every single match is enormous now, but I believe the one on Thursday is enormous".

And he is desperate to play a prominent part in a competition which could lead to a final in Sweden, having been left out of the squad for February's EFL Cup final win over his old club Southampton.

"We have eight teams in the competition and we are in the quarterfinals - it's a competition we can win".

"We fight for whatever we have got left, I just think we have to have that mentality where every game is a cup final and not worry about which competition it is in".

Unlike its rivals, United can still qualify for next season's Champions League by winning the Europa League. "Honestly we think about it". "We've got to fight for that".

"We've got to focus all week on what their strengths and weaknesses are, but most of all we need to focus on ourselves, what we do and how we play".

"It is a really big opportunity for us to get to the final", added Shaw.

After taking his goal tally to 28 at the Stadium of Light, the 35-year-old compared himself to Benjamin Button, the fictional character who ages in reverse.

Shaw may not start, though, with Antonio Valencia fit again and ready to resume right-back duties, which may see Matteo Darmian switch to the opposite flank.