Javier Hernandez Nets The Winner

Javier Hernan­dez

Manchester United man­aged to bag all three points in the lunch time en­counter against Ever­ton at Good­son Park on Sat­urday cour­tesy of an early Javier Hernan­dez goal. And al­though Ever­ton came more into the match as The Reds de­fen­ded ever deeper, the hosts failed to level the score with the game end­ing 1–0 in fa­vour of the visitors.

In an evenly con­tested game, Manchester United took an early lead in the 19th minute of the first half when a cross ball from Patrice Evra was con­ver­ted into the back of the net by Javier Hernan­dez from a mere two yards out. The Ever­ton play­ers pressed hard for an equal­iser and the blue shirts came close to level the score when a well-hit free-kick from left full­back Leighton Baines smashed against the cross­bar shortly be­fore the half time sig­nal. Just el­even minutes into the second half, how­ever, mid­field dy­namo Tom Clev­er­ley was re­placed by Por­tuguese in­ter­na­tional Luis Nani with what ap­peared to be an in­jury to his knee. Only a few minutes later, Danny Wel­beck could have made it 2–0 to Manchester United but his strike from close range was bril­liantly saved by Tim Howard in the Ever­ton goal. Mid­way through the second period, Manchester United man­ager Sir Alex Fer­guson even­tu­ally de­cided to make two more sub­sti­tu­tions with goal scorer Javier Hernan­dez mak­ing way for Di­m­itar Ber­batov and then Danny Wel­beck be­ing re­placed by Ant­o­nio Valen­cia. Des­pite win­ning away to the Mer­sey­siders on Sat­urday, Manchester United still re­main five points be­hind Roberto Mancini´s table top­ping Manchester City.

Ever­ton Start­ing Lineup: Tim Howard, Tony Hi­b­bert, Phil Ja­gielka, Johnny Heitinga, Leighton Baines, Seamus Cole­man, Mar­ou­ane Fel­laini, Leon Os­man, Louis Saha, Jack Rod­well, Din­i­yar Bilyaletdinov. Sub­sti­tutes: Jan Mucha, Ross Barkley, Aposto­los Vel­lios, Magaye Gueye, James Mc­Fad­den. Manchester United Start­ing Lineup: David de Gea, Phil Jones, Ne­manja Vidic, Jonny Evans, Patrice Evra, Dar­ren Fletcher, Ji-Sung Park, Tom Clev­er­ley, Wayne Rooney, Danny Wel­beck, Javier Hernan­dez. Sub­sti­tutes: An­ders Linde­gaard, Nani, Di­m­itar Ber­batov, Valen­cia, Rio Ferdin­and, Mi­chael Owen.

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