Manchester United Back On Track

Nani

Sir Alex Ferguson´s title chal­len­ging side eased to a deserved and ulti­mately com­fort­able 4–1 tri­umph over Wol­ver­hamp­ton Wan­der­ers at their Old Traf­ford home on Sat­urday after­noon thanks to two goals each from Nani and Wayne Rooney. For the most part, it was a com­par­at­ively one sided match as a con­fid­ent Manchester United team dom­in­ated pos­ses­sion and pro­duced the vast major­ity of goal scor­ing chances.

The vic­tory against Wol­ver­hamp­ton gave Manchester United the per­fect tonic after the sur­pris­ing 2–1 defeat away to Swiss min­nows FC Basel in the UEFA Cham­pi­ons League last Wed­nes­day. Typi­fy­ing his style, Nani helped Manchester United get their title hopes back on track after sev­en­teen minutes of action when the wiry and wily winger opened the scor­ing account before Wayne Rooney doubled the lead for the hosts a mere ten minutes later. Scot­land inter­na­tional for­ward Steven Fletcher pulled one back for The Old Gold only two minutes into the second half but in the 56th minute of the con­test the inform Nani scored again for Manchester United as did the ever dan­ger­ous Wayne Rooney just after the hour mark. Des­pite a spir­ited comeback dur­ing the early stages of the second period, the Black Coun­try club never really stood a chance against a hungry and fired-up Manchester United side. Fol­low­ing the 4–1 dis­mant­ling of Mick McCarty´s men on Sat­urday, The Reds are now two points adrift of Premier League table top­pers Manchester City but have played an extra match. In their next league game, Manchester United travel to West Lon­don to play Neil Warnock´s Queens Park Rangers.

Eng­lish Premier League, Manchester United vs Wol­ver­hamp­ton 4–1
Manchester United Line-up: David de Gea, Chris Smalling, Rio Ferdin­and, Jonny Evans, Patrice Evra, Ant­o­nio Valen­cia, Phil Jones, Michael Car­rick, Luis Nani, Wayne Rooney, Danny Wel­beck. Wolves Line-up: Wayne Hen­nes­sey, Ron­ald Zubar, Roger John­son, Chris­tophe Berra, Stephen Ward, David Edwards, Jamie O’Hara, Karl Henry, Mat­thew Jar­vis, Steven Fletcher, Kevin Doyle. Ref­eree: Michael Oliver. Attend­ance: 75,600.

Luis Nani Fact File
Luis Nani made his com­pet­it­ive debut for Manchester United com­ing on as a second half sub­sti­tute in the Com­munity Shield against Chelsea in August 2007.

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