Both Rooney and Ronaldo scored a double to give Manchester United a 5-1 win against Newcastle at St James Park.
It was a good team performance from the Red Devils, but Newcastle really made MU’s victory a lot easier with their sloppy play. They seemed to lack confidence with the ball and made way too much mistakes. In fact, 3 out of the 5 goals could be prevented if they could show just a bit more steadiness when defending or when holding the ball.
It was a great game from Ronaldo though. He did well to assist Rooney with the game opener on 25th minute before bagging a goal on each half himself (45th and 56th minute), before Abdoulaye Faye crawled one back for Newcastle on 79th minute.
Rooney installed the lead just a minute later with his second on 80th minute. Saha then completed Newcastle’s misery in injury time.
The win closed the gap between the title racers, as Arsenal could only managed a draw against Birmingham in an earlier match. Manchester United are currently 3 points behind the Gunners.
Ronaldo scored his first hattrick for Manchester United, and led the team to demolish Newcastle 6-0 in Old Trafford. Carlos Tevez scored a double while Rio Ferdinand was on the score sheet as well.
MU dominated the game from the start but the scoreline was surprisingly kept at 0-0. In fact they could have gone a goal behind if Michael Owen’s goal was not wrongly ruled as offside… but then, United had 2 penalty claims (one was obvious foul in the box) denied as well.
The 2nd half was a different story though; Manchester United finally convert their dominance into goals. Ronaldo opened the scoring on 49th minute with a cleverly taken freekick, and scored the other two on 70th minute and 88th minute.
The hattrick takes Ronaldo’s goal tally to 22 for the current season, just one short of last season’s 23-goals.
Cristiano Ronaldo believes Manchester United will retain their Premier League title and win a third European Cup after a solid start to the season.
The Portuguese winger has scored six goals to help United to second in the domestic table and to win their opening three games in the Champions League.
And the 22-year-old said: “I believe we will win the Premier League and the Champions League this season.
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Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off in United’s Premier League match against Portsmouth, which ended in a 1-1 draw at Fratton Park.
2 draws in a row for Manchester United… the season is still early, but it’s not spelling good for the Red Devils.
To make thing worse, Ronaldo’s headbutt and the red card means that he is going to miss the next match for sure, and is almost certain that he will miss another 2 more matches after FA revealing the incident.
With Wayne Rooney (and a few others) already out of injury, Ronaldo’s suspension is going to cause some real headache for United.
Manchester United win the Premiership for the first time in 4 years after Chelsea’s 1-1 draw with Arsenal at Emirates Stadium.
United are 7 points ahead of Chelsea; and with just 2 more matches to go, they are the champions.
It has been a wonderful title race this season; Chelsea has some hard time with their injuries, but United had been playing some great football and deserve the title.
Cristiano Ronaldo has played a great part in United’s campaign. This will be his first premiership title since he joined the Devils; in fact it’s the first Premiership title for more than half of their first team players.
Congrats to Manchester United, the players, the staff and the fans. Congrats to Cristiano Ronaldo.