Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal wants his team to put in a perfect performance against league leaders Chelsea on Saturday.
Van Gaal's men have moved to within eight points of the Barclays Premier League leaders after six successive wins that included a thumping 4-2 win over Manchester City last Sunday.
United needed a 94th-minute equaliser to scrape a draw against Chelsea in October put van Gaal feels recent performances and results show the team are finally understanding his football philosophy.
"We are progressing and playing more like a team," the United manager said.
"There is more balance. I do believe that we can play very well but we haven't played very well for 90 minutes.
"First we have to play 90 minutes very well. Against City we didn't manage.
We have reached the point they're doing it as a team, not as an individual because football is a team sport, so that is the difference.
Louis van Gaal
"It's because they know why they have to play in a certain way," he said.
"You are capable but unconscious and I want them to be capable and conscious. Then, at the end, they are unconscious-capable, that they are doing it from their stomach.
"Now we have reached the point they're doing it as a team, not as an individual because football is a team sport, so that is the difference."
The Dutchman has reservations about United's ability to beat teams that are physically bigger than them, and that might be something that Chelsea, with the aerial threat from John Terry, Gary Cahill, Branislav Ivanovic and Nemanja Matic, put to the test at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
"We have a big deficit in height," he said.
"When you speak with a basketball coach one or two centimetres is very important.
"In football it is the same because a third or quarter of the goals come from set-plays."
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