Today’s game went very well for United. They came out on top for a final score of 3-1.

Nani opened the scoring at Emirates Stadium on 33 minutes when his chip across goal was palmed in by Arsenal keeper Manuel Almunia. Nani had a brilliant run, and It would be harsh to blame Almunia for that goal – if he hadn’t tried to tip the ball over the bar, Rooney and Park were inching up behind him and one of them would almost certainly have scored with a header from six inches.

Rooney had an excellent goal, starting the move by finding Nani in his own half and then sweeping home the Portugal winger’s cross to make it 2-0 on the board. “Rooney was unbelievable. He was the key player and they couldn’t handle him,” said Ferguson, after the game.

Park chases from his own half into an an almost empty Arsenal half. He controls the ball and keeps going and going until he’s within shooting range, then nicely kicks the ball home from about 10 yards and puts United up 3-0 over Arsenal.

Vermaelen scores from the edge of the penalty area with an acrobatic scissors-kick that takes a deflection off Carrick and past the understandably wrong footed Van der Sar for a goal, putting Arsenal on the board.

United go close to scoring their fourth goal during stoppage time. Valencia ran down the right and squared the ball from Berbatov at the far post. His lead footed first touch took the ball too far away from him, but it broke kindly for Rooney, who shot wide when it seemed easier to score. Very shortly after Chris Foy ends the game with 3 long blows on his whistle.

United’s next game is against Portsmouth on Febuary 6th.

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