Ronaldo became United’s savior again by scoring the only goal of the match against Derby on Saturday.
Ronaldo scored on the 76th minute thanks to a nice run-and-cross from Wayne Rooney. That’s Ronaldo’s 22nd Premier League goal and his 31st in total of the season.
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 United 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 a double to give Manchester United a 3-1 victory against Tottenham in the 4th round FA Cup game at Old Trafford.
It was a tight and exciting match. Tottenham were beaming with confidence after thrashing Arsenal in midweek’s Carling Cup semi-finals, and they gave United plenty of troubles from the start of the game.
Tottenham almost took the lead on 16th minute from a corner, but was only denied by Wayne Rooney on the line. It came no surprise when Robbie Keane scored the game opener on 24th minute, thanks to a fine move from Aaron Lennon.
Manchester United showed no mercy for their former captain Roy Keane as they crashed his side, Sunderland 4-0 at the Stadium of Light.
United started without some of their key players, but they proved too much to handle for the Black Cats. Sunderland started the game decently and had a few chances, but couldn’t threaten United’s keeper. Experience tells that it would mean deep trouble for Sunderland, as United would be ready to pounce on when they started to control the rhythm of the game.
The Red Devils didn’t need to wait long, as Wayne Rooney scored the opener on 20th minute from a wonderful pass by Wes Brown. Rooney then turned provider on 30th minute… his cross found Louis Saha and the French didn’t waste the chance to make it 2-0.
Cristiano Ronaldo then sealed the game for United just before the half time whistle to make it 3-0.
The game was still very much under United’s control at the 2nd half… Alex Ferguson even had the luxury to substitute Ronaldo on 59th minute with Park Ji-sung, who was playing his first competitive game of the season after his operation.
Louis Saha’s 86th minute penalty was very much icing on the cake. Manchester United claimed the top spot and would stay there for at least a few days as Arsenal had only managed a draw with Portsmouth in a later match.
Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez is beginning to look like a deadly strike force as they contributed 3 out of the 4 goals in Manchester United victory.
Nani scored a stunner in the 3rd minute for United before Jeremie Aliadiere equalized for Boro just minutes later… but it’s all about United dominating the game after that.
Rooney took back the lead for United on 33rd minute, thanks to a blunder from Stewart Downing.
Tevez then scored United’s 3rd and 4th goal in the 2nd half after some great play with Rooney. The 3rd goal in particular was a real gem.
Ronaldo played well too despite not scoring… he has to let the other boys shine once in a while.
Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off in United’s EPL 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 manager Alex Ferguson.
This is the red-card incident video, not very clear though…