Manchester United Win At Blackpool

Dim­itar Berbatov

Black­pool were the super­ior side by far dur­ing the first half of the play but the Manchester United play­ers man­aged to come back from behind to defeat the home side 3–2 at Bloom­field Road on Tues­day. After find­ing them­selves two goals down at the half time break, Sir Alex Ferguson´s troops came back a lot stronger in the second period and scored three goals in the final stages of the game to snatch all three points from the jaws of defeat.

Black­pool had not defeated Manchester United since they mauled them 5–1 in the League Cup in Septem­ber 1966, but it was the home side who took the lead when former Manchester United defender Craig Cath­cart headed a Charlie Adam corner into the back of the net after 15 minutes of play. The Tan­ger­ines doubled their lead just before the break as another corner from Adam found its way to Dud­ley Junior Camp­bell who headed home at the back post. Sir Alex Fer­guson replaced Dar­ron Gib­son with Ryan Giggs at half time and the Welshman´s cre­ativ­ity provided the vis­it­ing side with a much needed boost in the second half. The Scot made two more changes to his team in the second period as Javier Hernan­dez came on for Wayne Rooney, while Ander­son replaced Rafael who left the field on a stretcher. The Sea­siders looked a reas­on­able bet to cause an upset until Dim­itar Ber­batov reduced the defi­cit by tap­ping home a Dar­ren Fletcher cross on 72 minutes. Just two minutes later Hernan­dez drew Manchester United level with a fine fin­ish before Ber­batov scored the win­ner after 88 minutes to give Black­pool the coup de grace.

Manchester United are now five points clear of fel­low title con­tenders Arsenal.

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