Manchester United V Charlton 4–0

Ryan Giggs

On the last day of the 2005-06 cam­paign on the sev­enth of May 2006, Manchester United defeated Alan Curbishley´s Charlton Ath­letic team to the tune of 4–0 at The Theatre of Dreams. The con­vin­cing win over the South East Lon­don out­fit sealed second place in the Premi­er­ship and with it auto­matic qual­i­fic­a­tion into the Cham­pi­ons League.

Manchester United got off to a blis­ter­ing start and were two goals up within the first 23 minutes. French inter­na­tional striker Louis Saha opened the scor­ing for the hosts when he headed home a well executed flag kick from Ryan Giggs in the nine­teenth minute of the con­test. Por­tugal fron­trun­ner Cris­ti­ano Ron­aldo fol­lowed up by adding a second goal as the trig­ger happy marks­man tapped home from close range just four minutes later. On a bleak after­noon for Charlton Ath­letic, the Manchester United play­ers went into a fully deserved 3–0 lead thanks to an own goal from Jason Euell some ten minutes before the half time whistle. To make things even worse for the vis­it­ors, Eng­land inter­na­tional Kieran Richard­son even­tu­ally went on to score with a fero­cious strike in the 58th minute of the encounter to make the final score read 4–0 in the favour of The Man­cuni­ans. Manchester United Team: Edwin van der Sar, Gary Neville, Rio Ferdin­and, Mikael Sil­vestre, John O’Shea, Wes Brown, Cris­ti­ano Ron­aldo, Kieran Richard­son, Louis Saha, Giuseppe Rossi, Ryan Giggs. Sub­sti­tutes: Paul Scholes, Ole Gun­nar Sol­skjaer, Nemanja Vidic.

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