Photo: New Man Utd signing Eric Bailly posts Instagram update

Eric Bailly sent a message to the Manchester United supporters via his Instagram page as the defender jetted off to the Ivory Coast on Sunday afternoon.

Sur le point de m'envoler pour aller défendre les couleurs de mon pays. 🐘✈️ #Team225 🇨🇮 // About to take off to go defend my country's shirt. 🐘✈️ #Team225 🇨🇮

Eric Bailly（@ericbailly24）发的照片 · 2016-08-28，1:01 PDT

The 22-year-old centre-half helped United keep a second successive clean sheet on Saturday evening as Jose Mourinho's side were 1-0 winners against Hull City.

The African defender was the first of Jose Mourinho's summer signings after the centre-half completed a ￡30m move to the Red Devils from La Liga outfit Villarreal.

Bailly was named the man of the match in United's 2-1 victory over Premier League champions Leicester City in the Community Shield showpiece at Wembley earlier this month.

The African followed up his Wembley display with another man-of-the-match performance in United's opening Premier League game as the Red Devils were 3-1 winners against Bournemouth.

Remarkably, Bailly made it a hat-trick of man-of-the-match awards following his impressive performance at Hull.

Bailly posted the above photo and wrote on his Instagram page:

"About to take off to go defend my country's shirt. #Team225"

United are in second place in the Premier League table behind leaders Chelsea.