The Spaniard, who was on the scoresheet in the 3-2 victory at St Mary's, wrote on his official blog: "In short, it was an important and very special win.
"Everybody knows that last Tuesday was a bad day for us. Because of the defeat but, especially, because of Luke Shaw's terribly serious injury.
"He was very unlucky and suffered a double fracture of his right leg; all of us felt his pain. That's why we wanted to dedicate a victory to him as soon as possible, to make him feel happy, at least momentarily, and it came this very Sunday.
"I'm sure he will be back stronger, and he will work hard to be with us soon. He was having a great start this season, helping us a lot. All our support to you, my friend, you know we are here with you."
United moved up to second in the Premier League with their triumph over the Saints and Mata, whose compatriot David De Gea made a number of fantastic saves, was pleased to get back to winning ways after the disappointing defeat to PSV.
"I'm very happy for a victory that takes the team to the second position, allowing us to finish the week in a much better way than we started it," he added.
"After the first game in the Champions League group stage. We knew how important it was to win at St Mary's after some of our main rivals had dropped points on Saturday, and we were able to make it.
"Pelle scored again for Southampton and they kept trying, but David was there to make amazing saves, like many other times in the last few years, and so we won."
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