Manchester United Outplay Wolves

Javier Hernan­dez

Premier League lead­ers Manchester United meth­od­ic­ally dis­mantled releg­a­tion bat­tling Wol­ver­hamp­ton Wan­der­ers to the tune of a 5–0 win at Molineux Sta­dium on Sunday after­noon. Sir Alex Ferguson´s title chal­lengers con­trolled pos­ses­sion of the ball from the very start of the game and found them­selves deservedly 3–0 up at half time.

Manchester United defender Jonny Evans pos­sesses many qual­it­ies as a foot­baller, but scor­ing goals has not been one of them so far. The North­ern Ire­land player nev­er­the­less swept the ball in from close range to give his team an early lead in the 21st minute of the encounter with Wol­ver­hamp­ton yes­ter­day. With the goal the vis­it­ors became more settled and more dan­ger­ous on coun­ter­at­tacks as the first period wore on. And to make mat­ters even worse for Wan­der­ers, ver­sat­ile defender Ron­ald Zubar was duly given his march­ing orders by the ref­eree after 39 minutes of action for a second yel­low card for a tough tackle on Danny Wel­beck. Then a mere two minutes before the first half ended, Wayne Rooney found grey­hound quick flank­man Ant­o­nio Valen­cia who ran on goal­wards and hammered an unstop­pable drive across a help­less Wayne Hen­nes­sey and into the net.

Manchester United even­tu­ally went into a well deserved 3–0 lead as Danny Wel­beck fired a low centre from the ever present Ant­o­nio Valen­cia behind the home goal­keeper and into the back of net in first-half stop­page time. The Manchester Reds car­ried on where they left in the first period and in the 56th minute of play trig­ger happy marks­man Javier Hernan­dez went on to net the fourth goal of the after­noon with a power­ful header from a mag­ni­fi­cent Rafael da Silva cross before the same player scored five minutes later to ensure the final sco­reline read 5–0 in the favour of Manchester United. After demol­ish­ing Terry Connor´s releg­a­tion strug­gling Wol­ver­hamp­ton team yes­ter­day, Sir Alex Ferguson´s play­ers are now four points clear of long­time adversar­ies Manchester City in second place.

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