SHOWS: MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (OCTOBER 23, 2018) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) JUVENTUS COACH, MASSIMILIANO ALLEGRI, SAYING: "We knew that we would have to play a very, very good game from a technical point of view because we knew playing against a team like United who are very physical, very good on the high balls, we couldn't really afford to engage in that kind of physical game.

We had to be dominant technically.

I thought we played a fantastic first half.

We probably should've scored a second goal in the first half.

In the second half we did give the ball away on a few occssions, we did give the ball away but we played well, it was a great game to watch and I think what the players showed today was they knew when to slow the game down, when to speed the playup and certainly that was something we stopped doing on Saturday evening and tonight we did it the whole night." MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (OCTOBER 23, 2018) (REUTERS PICTURES - ACCESS ALL) (MUTE) 2.

STILL IMAGE OF JUVENTUS FORWARD PAULO DYBALA SCORING FIRST GOAL 3.

STILL IMAGE OF DYBALA CELEBRATING WITH TEAM STORY: An impressive Juventus beat Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford on Tuesday (October 23) to take command of Champions League Group H with a maximum nine points from three games and demonstrate just how far Jose Mourinho's side are from Europe's elite.

Paulo Dybala's 17th minute goal, a simple conversion after a low cross from the right by former United favourite Cristiano Ronaldo, won the game but the dominant Italian champions could have won by a much more convincing margin.

United needed their Spanish keeper David de Gea to be in top form as he made a series of good saves, including an excellent effort to keep out a second-half strike from Ronaldo.

United were outclassed by the Serie A giants and Mourinho made no effort to sugar-coat that reality, but his comments were a thinly-veiled critique of the club's direction.

The Portuguese's biggest frustration was the failure to bring in a major reinforcement in the centre of defence and it was perhaps no coincidence that he highlighted Juve's two centre-halves, Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci for particular praise.

"Mr. Bonucci and Mr. Chiellini could go to Harvard University and give classes on how to be a central defender," he said.