Manchester United Punish The Villains

Wayne Rooney

Manchester United cruised to a bril­liant 4–0 vic­tory over As­ton Villa at Old Traf­ford on Sunday thanks to a Wayne Rooney brace and one goal each from Danny Wel­beck and Nani. The res­ult means that Manchester United are still five points ahead of rivals Manchester City with just four games to go un­til the end of the cam­paign.

The Reds com­fort­ably dis­patched As­ton Villa at The Theatre of Dreams to keep their ex­cel­lent home re­cord in­tact. The Barclays Premier League lead­ers were well on top through­out the game with Alex McLeish´s team hav­ing little to of­fer in terms of at­tack­ing foot­ball. In the sixth minute of the play, Re­pub­lic of Ire­land in­ter­na­tional Ciaran Clark brought down Ash­ley Young in­side the box and Manchester United were given a pen­alty which Wayne Rooney sub­sequently con­ver­ted to make it 1–0. With only a couple of minutes re­main­ing of the first period, the home team even­tu­ally doubled their lead as at­tack minded de­fender Patrice Evra played the ball across the pen­alty area for Eng­land in­ter­na­tional fron­trun­ner Danny Wel­beck to turn the ball into the back of the net. The Old Traf­ford out­fit con­tin­ued to dom­in­ate the pos­ses­sion of the ball after the re­sump­tion and they were re­war­ded in the 73rd minute of ac­tion when tricky flank­man Anon­tio Valen­cia passed the ball to the un­marked Wayne Rooney who hammered home. Then in the 90th minute of the some­what one-sided en­counter, a mag­ni­fi­cent through pass from North­ern Ire­land centre back Jonny Evans found second period sub­sti­tute Luis Nani who man­aged to roll the ball un­der As­ton Villa shot stop­per Shay Given to make the fi­nal score read 4–0 in the fa­vour of Manchester United. And al­though it was a most im­press­ive vic­tory for The Man­cuni­ans, the mar­gins could have been even bet­ter. In their next game, Manchester United will play host to David Moyes´s Ever­ton team who de­mol­ished Sun­der­land to the con­vin­cing tune of 4–0 at Good­ison Park in their last league match. Manchester United Team: David de Gea, Fa­bio, Jonny Evans, Rio Ferdin­and, Patrice Evra, Valen­cia, Paul Scholes, Mi­chael Car­rick, Ash­ley Young, Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck.

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