Wayne Rooney Back On Scoring Trail

Wayne Rooney

Manchester United moved into third place in the Barclays Premier League table thanks to a well earned 3–0 tri­umph against Avram Grant’s West Ham United at Old Traf­ford on Sat­urday after­noon. In a some­what one sided encounter, the East Lon­don­ers were denied their first points of the sea­son as a first half pen­alty from Eng­land player Wayne Rooney set Manchester United on their way to a highly con­vin­cing home victory.

Sir Alex Fer­guson made three changes to the Manchester United side who played Ful­ham at Craven Cot­tage last week­end with Nani, Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney com­ing in for Ji-Sung Park, Ant­o­nio Valen­cia and Javier Hernan­dez. After 13 games without a goal for Manchester United and Eng­land, Wayne Rooney man­aged to find the back of the net for the first time since scor­ing against Bay­ern Munich in the first leg of the Cham­pi­ons League Quarter Final in March. Former Mancester United defender Jonathan Spector brought down vet­eran player Ryan Giggs in the box after 33 minutes of play, provid­ing the centre for­ward with a per­fect oppor­tun­ity to score from the pen­alty spot. Rooney then set up Manchester United’s second goal for Nani before Dim­itar Ber­batov com­pleted the scor­ing to put The Reds on seven points along with Arsenal and two behind Chelsea.

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