Wayne Rooney Hits Another Treble

Wayne Rooney

Manchester United out­classed Bolton Wan­der­ers 5–0 at Ree­bok Sta­dium on Sat­urday even­ing thanks to a Wayne Rooney treble and two goals from Javier Hernan­dez. After giv­ing Bolton a foot­balling les­son that would have had almost every team in the Premier League beg­ging for mercy, Sir Alex Ferguson´s title chas­ing side now top the top flight table on goal dif­fer­ence ahead of arch rivals Manchester City.

The derby match star­ted at a blis­ter­ing pace as Manchester United fired on all cyl­in­ders in search of an early goal and their efforts were rewar­ded when Javier Hernan­dez made the score sheet after only five minutes of play. Nani raced down the right wing and pro­duced a dan­ger­ous cross into the path of the goal ace who man­aged to ham­mer the ball home at the near post. A goal scorer par excel­lence, Wayne Rooney got in on the act in the 21st minute of the con­test when he stud­ded the ball into the net from six yards out after receiv­ing a dif­fi­cult cross from Phil Jones. Manchester United´s third arrived a mere five minutes later when an adven­tur­ous effort from Jones was parred by Jussi Jaaskelainen only for Rooney to sweep the rebound into the back of the net. After the half time refresh­ments, the con­fid­ent Manchester United play­ers con­tin­ued to play an expans­ive brand of foot­ball. The red shirts even­tu­ally added a fourth goal on the hour mark when a power­ful drive from Michael Car­rick, who came on for the injured Tom Clev­er­ley in the sixth minute, was turned in by Hernan­dez. Rooney was a con­stant threat through­out the one sided game and the lethal fin­isher com­pleted his fine treble when he con­ver­ted a square pass from Nani to seal the mar­gin of vic­tory in the 68th minute. After fight­ing his inner demons for a long time, Wayne Rooney has finally man­aged to come out of his self inflic­ted hell and shut the mouths of his critics.

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