EDDIE Howe pledged to place trust in his players ahead of Cherries' bid to earn their first win at Manchester United.

The Dorset club have never won at Old Trafford but will hope to further damage United's Premier League title bid tomorrow (8pm).

Howe told the Daily Echo: "These aren't games you need motivating for, they are games where you need a clear plan and the players need confidence in each other and belief they can win.

"I urge my players to have that feeling.

"When you play the top teams away from home, impressing your game on them is incredibly difficult but that's where you have to trust your players, have faith in your game plan and deliver it.

"It isn't different from any other game, it's just that the names change. In terms of what happens on the pitch, our players have to win their duels in order for us to have a chance of getting anything."

Howe is set to go head to head with United boss Jose Mourinho, a three-time winner of the Premier League crown with Chelsea across two spells at Stamford Bridge.

The Cherries boss added: "He has had a huge impact. The biggest compliment I can give him is that his teams are so well organised and so well drilled for certain games.

"Tactically, he always has a plan. He always has a way of playing and the focus of that is to win the game and that is the true testament of any coach, when they put together a set of ideas and the players are able to execute them.

"A lot of teams have followed that blueprint of producing specialised game plans for different games, home or away. I think he has had a big impact in how managers prepare their teams."