17 December 2009

Man United 3 Wolves 0

It had been an opening of uninspiring fare and United seemed to struggle to raise their game. United were in need of some outside help to make their dominance pay and they got it when Ronaldo Zubar inexplicably handled a Darron Gibson corner. The French Under 21 international had Vidic in close proximity but his offence was puzzling. Rooney won the battle with Hahnemann with a powerful penalty.

Gibson proved he has set piece accuracy to match his thunderbolt shooting when he sent over a second corner bang in the path of Vidic’s run and though Hahnemann got a hand to the Serb’s powerful header he could only help it over the line.

Both Dimitar Berbatov and Antonio Valencia had been disappointing peripheral figures against opposition they could have destroyed if they’d really got their teeth into it. They showed how easy they could have done it when the Bulgarian hooked a delicate pass over his right hand shoulder and the Ecuadorian thrashed in a cracker.

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