Manchester United V Liverpool 2–1

Wayne Rooney

A brace from Wayne Rooney gave Manchester United a 2–1 win against Kenny Dalglish´s Liv­er­pool at Old Traf­ford on Sat­urday. Luis Suarez man­aged to score a close range goal in the 81st minute of the con­test but a well organ­ised Manchester United team were able to keep the vis­it­ors at bay for the remainder of the game to win 2–1.

Although Manchester United dom­in­ated pos­ses­sion of the ball for long spells dur­ing the first period, the home play­ers failed to find the back of the net before the sound of the half time whistle. Smooth passing mid­field play­maker Paul Scholes, who once again enjoyed a splen­did match with his excel­lent dis­tri­bu­tion of the ball, almost scored the open­ing goal for Manchester United in the 31st minute of the play but his fero­cious header from close range was mira­cu­lously stopped by the agile and acro­batic Pepe Reina in the Liv­er­pool goal. It was Wayne Rooney who would open the scor­ing, how­ever, when the Liv­er­pudlian hammered home an accur­ate right-hand side corner kick from ever­green mid­field stal­wart Ryan Giggs a mere two minutes after the resump­tion. Only a couple of minutes later, the always dan­ger­ous Eng­land inter­na­tional scored one more time as he received a defence split­ting pass from spring-heeled flank­man Ant­o­nio Valen­cia and slot­ted the ball under the com­pletely help­less Liv­er­pool shot stop­per to net his second goal of the after­noon. With just minutes remain­ing of the hard fought derby encounter, none other than Luis Suarez even­tu­ally scored for the vis­it­ing team with a power­ful effort from inside the six-yard area which gave David de Gea no chance to save what­so­ever. The Mer­sey­siders pressed hard for the equal­ising goal once they halved the defi­cit, but The Red Dev­ils kept their cool in the clos­ing stages of the match to bag all three points. Manchester United Team: David de Gea, Jonny Evans, Rafael da Silva, Rio Ferdin­and, Patrice Evra, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Michael Car­rick, Wayne Rooney, Ant­o­nio Valen­cia, Danny Welbeck.

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