Manchester United Beat The Hoops

Wayne Rooney

Manchester United bagged three import­ant points against Premier League new boys Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road on Sunday. Wayne Rooney opened the scor­ing account within the first minute of the clash before Michael Car­rick made it 2–0 to The Reds with a bril­liant indi­vidual dis­play thir­teen minutes into the second half.

The West Lon­don club have never man­aged to defeat Manchester United in the Eng­lish Premier League, either at Old Traf­ford or at their Loftus Road  home. And as expec­ted before the game, Sir Alex Ferguson´s Manchester United star­ted with the pur­pose of a team look­ing to over­take Premier League table top­pers Manchester City. With less than a minute gone of the lunch­time match, The Man­cuni­ans went into an early lead when Ecuador inter­na­tional Ant­o­nio Valen­cia delight­fully crossed for the strong run­ning Wayne Rooney who man­aged to head the red shirts into to a 1–0 lead from close range. Only a couple of minutes later, though, Danny Wel­beck should have net­ted a second goal for Manchester United but his effort was bril­liantly saved by Czech Repub­lic inter­na­tional Radek Cerny. In the 56th minute of the encounter, how­ever, a dread­ful mis­take from Queens Park Rangers mid­field man Joey Bar­ton allowed Manchester United play­maker Michael Car­rick to rifle a power­ful low shot behind the help­less home goal­keeper and into the back of the net from 20 yards out. Des­pite win­ning com­fort­ably against Neil Warnock´s Queens Park Rangers side yes­ter­day, the Manchester United play­ers are still two points behind fel­low title chal­lengers Manchester City who won their home game against Arsenal by a score of 1–0. In their next Premier League match, Manchester United will make the jour­ney to Craven Cot­tage to take on Ful­ham on Wed­nes­day even­ing. Manchester United Team: David de Gea, Chris Smalling, Jonny Evans, Rio Ferdin­and, Patrice Evra, Valen­cia, Phil Jones, Michael Car­rick, Luis Nani, Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck.

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