Manchester United Thump The Hoops

Paul Scholes

Manchester United com­fort­ably defeated Queens Park Rangers 2–0 at Old Traf­ford on Sunday. Wayne Rooney scored the first goal of the match from the pen­alty spot after 15 minutes of action before Paul Scholes made it 2–0 to Manchester United with a power­ful shot from the edge of the box in the 68th minute of the encounter.

Queens Park Rangers put in a highly spir­ited per­form­ance against Manchester United, but two goals either side of the break gave Sir Alex Ferguson´s title chal­lengers the vic­tory. A mere 15 minutes into the first half, Manchester United were awar­ded a pen­alty kick when Eng­land inter­na­tional winger Ash­ley Young was brought down inside the area by Queens Park Rangers skip­per Shaun Derry who was some­what harshly red carded by ref­eree Lee Mason. Wayne Rooney stepped up and the trig­ger happy marks­man made no mis­takes from the spot to give Manchester United a fully deserved 1–0 lead. The Manchester Reds even­tu­ally sealed the vic­tory in the 68th minute of the play when former Eng­land player Paul Scholes hammered home from some 20 yards out to make the sco­reline read 2–0 in the favour of the home side. Fel­low mid­fielder Michael Car­rick almost net­ted the third goal shortly after­wards but his thun­der­bolt effort hit the inside of the post and flew across the face of the goal. Once again, Paul Scholes took the eye with an excel­lent per­form­ance and the clas­sic mul­ti­func­tional mid­field play­maker was applauded off the field by the home fans when he even­tu­ally was replaced by Tom Clev­er­ley in the 74th minute. With Roberto Mancini´s Manchester City side los­ing nar­rowly 1–0 to Arsenal at the Emir­ates Sta­dium yes­ter­day, the red shirts are now eight points ahead of their old rivals. Manchester United Team: David de Gea, Rafael, Jonny Evans, Rio Ferdin­and, Patrice Evra, Paul Scholes, Valen­cia, Michael Car­rick, Ash­ley Young, Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck.

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