The Premier League returns this weekend after a two-week break for internationals, and fans up and down the country have got a treat on Saturday lunchtime when Manchester United host Arsenal at Old Trafford.

Jose Mourinho’s United have struggled in the first three months of the season, having picked up just five wins in their opening 11 Premier League games, but they will fancy their chances against an Arsenal side that haven’t won in the league at Old Trafford since 2006.

However, Arsene Wenger’s men are currently embarking on a 16-game unbeaten run, which dates back to the opening day of the season, and they sit six points and two places better off than their opponents going into Saturday’s clash.

Gunners fans will feel confident that they can end a ten-year wait for league success in Manchester, but Wenger knows that he has never beaten Mourinho in the Premier League, and has won just one of their 15 meetings in all competitions.

With the build-up under way ahead of what should be an exciting encounter, we at Shoot! have had a look back on one United’s best performances against their rivals in recent years – the 8-2 win at Old Trafford back in August 2011.

A hat-trick from Wayne Rooney, a brace from Ashley Young, and goals from Nani, Danny Welbeck, and Park Ji-Sung stunned a woeful Arsenal side five years ago.

Thus, here is where the United XI that started that day are now…

David de Gea

David de Gea was embarking on his first season in English football when United battered Arsenal 8-2.

The game was just his fourth between the sticks for the Red Devils, and he saved a penalty from then-Gunners forward Robin van Persie with United 1-0 up. The whole match could have changed if he hadn’t have made that save.

Nonetheless, de Gea has developed into one of the best goalkeepers in the Premier League, and since this game has won three Player of the Season awards at United.

Patrice Evra

United’s trusty left-back spent three more years at Old Trafford before making the move to Juventus in 2014.

During his eight-year spell in Manchester, the French international made 379 appearances and won five Premier League titles and the Champions League.

He became a regular part of the France set-up during his time at Old Trafford and, even at the age of 35, Evra remains a dependable left-back for the Italian giants, having appeared 77 times since he arrived in Turin two years ago.

Phil Jones

Phil Jones is one of five players who started that game for United still at the club, although he hasn’t hit the heights his potential suggested back in 2011.

The 2011/12 campaign was his first at Old Trafford following a £16.5 million move from Blackburn that summer, and there was a lot of expectation on the Englishman’s shoulders following regular endorsements from then-United boss Sir Alex Ferguson.

And, although Jones has made 138 further appearances for United since the Arsenal game, he hasn’t developed into the defender, or indeed midfielder, that many were expecting.

A few injuries have stunted his progress, but he has always been regarded as someone who can fill in anywhere across the back or in midfield, which means it’s been difficult for him to nail down a position.

He got back into the side against Swansea a fortnight ago and played well, and that could be the start of a sustained run in the side for the 24-year-old.

Jonny Evans

Now of West Brom, Jonny Evans was another that was touted for the big time, but never really delivered on the big stage.

The 2011/12 season saw him make 40 appearances in the heart of the United defence and, after a few seasons in and out of the side, it was when Nemanja Vidic left the club in 2013 and Rio Ferdinand in 2014 where many thought Evans would seize the initiative and make the centre-back spot his own.

But he didn’t, and was sold by Louis van Gaal in the summer of 2015.

The Northern Irish international made 30 league appearances last season for West Brom, and has featured in nine of their 11 Premier League games this season.

Chris Smalling

Chris Smalling is still at Old Trafford and, with Eric Bailly, are the two main centre-backs at the club.

Another player who was brought in under Ferguson and tipped to be a world-class defender, Smalling has fared slightly better than Jones and Evans, and is one of the regular centre-backs in the England set-up.

Public criticism from manager Jose Mourinho could cause future issues at United, but the defender is a decent centre-back and could be crucial to the Red Devils if he stays fit.

Anderson

Whatever happened to Anderson?

He moved the United in 2007 and was seen as a midfielder with huge potential, but United fans rarely got a glimpse of his talent.

Anderson’s 38 appearances in his first season there was as good as it got, and his start in the game against Arsenal was just one of eight for him in that campaign.

His United career petered out, and he eventually moved on to Inter Milan in 2015 on a free transfer.

Despite limited game time at United (he made 181 appearances over seven and a half years), he won four Premier League titles and the Champions League. Not bad going!

Nani

Nani was a tricky winger who, on his day, could cause any Premier League defence no end of problems.

The Portuguese international was coming off the back of his best season at United prior to the Arsenal game, having scored ten times in 49 games during the 2010/11 campaign.

And he took some of that form into the Gunners game, netting the fifth as United ran riot over their rivals on that day.

However, he fell out of favour the season after, and was loaned out to Sporting in 2014/15, before leaving United for good by moving to Fenerbahce in 2015. He now plays for La Liga side Valencia.

Ashley Young

Back in 2011, Ashley Young had moved to United and became a regular in the England squad, such was his great form on the pitch.

And his two goals in the 8-2 rout showed what a top player Ferguson had bought that summer.

However, his first season at Old Trafford was as good as it got for the Englishman, who has netted just six goals in his last four seasons at United, in which time he has made 113 appearances for the club.

Granted, Young had to play a few of those at full-back, but United fans would have expected more from their £20 million man, whose dip in form has seen him go three years without an international cap.

The 31-year-old had a decent season in 2014/15, appearing 29 times in all competitions, and was tipped for an England recall but then-boss Roy Hodgson decided against it, and now it looks like Young’s England career is over.

Tom Cleverley

The season before the Arsenal game, Tom Cleverley was on loan at Wigan Athletic, and just about helped the club stay in the Premier League.

In 2011 though, following Paul Scholes’ retirement, Cleverley became the main man for United in the midfield, and impressed in what just his fourth match for the club in the win over the Gunners.

Injuries disrupted his first full season at United, but he played more frequently in 2012/13 and 2013/14, but fell down the pecking order when David Moyes took charge, and he was allowed to go on loan to Aston Villa for the 2014/15 campaign.

Cleverley left United for good in 2015 and signed for Moyes’ former employers Everton, and the former England international can now be seen marshalling the Toffees midfield with Gareth Barry and Idrissa Gueye.

Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney has achieved a fair bit since his hat-trick against the Gunners back in 2011.

He had his best goal-scoring season in that campaign with 34 goals in 43 appearances for United, and then went on to win the Premier League with the club in 2013, his fifth league title.

Rooney has also become England captain and their record goal-scorer, having surpassed Sir Bobby Charlton’s tally of 49 in September 2015 against Switzerland, and he is now just two behind the World Cup winner in United’s all time goal-scoring charts, having netted 247 to Charlton’s 249.

Although Rooney’s future at the club has been discussed repeatedly in the last few years, the 31-year-old is still there and is still an important part of the squad – it’s just about deciding where best to play him.

Danny Welbeck

Then a Red Devil, now a Gunner, Danny Welbeck made the switch to the Emirates in 2014 in a move that surprised many up and down the country.

The England international had just come off a ten-goal season, his second best at United, but the arrival of Falcao (we all know how well that went!) seemed to push him towards the exit door.

Nonetheless, the 25-year-old made the move to North London, but his spell there has been blighted by injury, appearing just 49 times for the Gunners in little over two seasons at the club.

Welbeck became an integral member of Roy Hodgson’s England team, appearing 12 times for his country in 2014, but a knee injury, of which he is still recovering from, ruled him out of Euro 2016.