Manchester United V Liverpool 2–1

Ji-Sung Park

Manchester United came from behind to beat Liv­er­pool at Old Traf­ford on Sunday to go to the top of the table, while fierce rivals Chelsea suffered a set­back against Black­burn Rovers at Ewood Park. Des­pite a nerve wrack­ing end­ing yes­ter­day, the hosts man­aged to hold on to their lead and even­tu­ally defeated old rivals Liv­er­pool 2–1.

As expec­ted before the match no quarter was given by either side in the North West derby between Manchester United and Liv­er­pool. In the fifth minute of the encounter, Liv­er­pool fron­trun­ner Fernando Torres con­tin­ued his remark­able scor­ing record against Manchester United as he made it one goal up for the vis­it­ing team with an aston­ish­ing header. Five minutes later, the ref­eree awar­ded Manchester United a pen­alty as Ecuadorian flank­man Ant­o­nio Valen­ica was brought down by Argen­tina inter­na­tional Javier Mascher­ano. Wayne Rooney’s spot kick was superbly saved by Liv­er­pool goal­keeper Pepe Reina only for the Eng­land for­ward to score his 33rd goal of the league cam­paign from the rebound. As the pen­du­lum swung one way and then the other, Manchester United even­tu­ally went into the lead for the first time dur­ing the derby encounter with a breath­tak­ing dis­play when Wayne Rooney found the strong run­ning Dar­ren Fletcher on the right who man­aged to cross the ball per­fectly for South Korean work­horse Ji-Sung Park to score the win­ning goal with a fly­ing text-book header in the 14th minute of second half play. The 2–1 win over Liv­er­pool moved Manchester United on to 69 points with seven matches remaining.

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