Jose Mourinho admits he is wary of Rafa Benitez's plans for Newcastle United ahead of their trip to Manchester United this weekend.
The Magpies head to Old Trafford searching for their first win of the campaign after a bad start to the Premier League campaign.
But the Man United boss has plenty of respect for Benitez.
He said: "They have a very, very, very good coach, a team that is always very well organised against especially the teams of the first part of the table where their manager is very bright on his analysis of the opponent’s qualities and to try to stop them.
"The results they had against the top teams didn’t get them points yet this season, but gave them very, very close results and very difficult matches for the opposition.
"So we expect a difficult match."
Mourinho also said he is taking no notice of the league table at the moment.
He went on: "I know we are in the beginning of October and you look to tables all around Europe and in many of the leagues the tables in September, October, they don’t reflect what is going to happen in a few months later or even in the end of the season.
"But we are in a position that we can do much better than that and to do that we need points, points that we lost especially in the last two Premier League matches with one point out of six."