Ji-Sung Park, who I have often criticized for not being a player who could decide a match, single-handedly defeated Wolverhampton. Hey, but even Berbatov had his day a few weeks back.

The Wolverhampton match also marked the return of Owen Hargreaves, after being gone for over two-years the former English international had to be subbed off after only 10 minutes with a hamstring injury. Even worse then Hargreaves’ injury, was his horrendous sub Bebe. Bebe was so awful, he had to be subbed off later in the game. How many times have you seen that? A sub being subbed back off.

The defensive line was strong, 5 players you would expect. Van der Sar in goal, Ferdindand, Vidic, Evra and Brown, who is rumored to be making a move in the January transfer window. It was the midfield and front-line that was a little depleted. O’shea had to step in as a holding midfielder with Fletcher, Park and Hargreaves all in the mid, while Obertan, and Hernandez took the front line.

Bebe would come on for Hargreaves just 10 minutes into the match, and in all honesty, it should have been Scholes to come on. Fortunately United got the win and we probably wont see Bebe for a while.

United would take the lead just minutes before the half, after Fletcher gave a brilliant ball to Park, which made no mistake in front of goal.

Wolverhampton would equalize though after a a mistake by Fletcher at one end of the pitch led to a goal at the other end.

But it was Park who found the game winner in the 93rd minute, after a brilliant individual play that saw him dribble past two defenders and beat the American keeper near post!

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