Manchester United 2-0 Blackburn rovers

A decent performance, and three welcome points against a pretty useful Blackburn outfit, who are definitely one of the better teams fighting it out for the UEFA cup spots. After the game Fergie was lauding this present squad as the best he has had at united in his 21 years at the club, and when you look at a performance like this , i can't argue with that. Can you imagine if we had gone into a game like this last season with no Scholes and no Rooney. There is no way i would have been as confident as i was yesterday that though we would be in for a hard game, we would eventually come out of the game with the points in the bag.
You have to admire the job that Sparky has done at Blackburn, and it wasn't hard to see why none of the other top three have defeated them so far this season. They were never scared of United, and even when they went down to ten men after the harsh sending off of Dunn, they didn't alter their approach to the game. There was no leaving one man forward and getting bodies behind the ball and settling for the 2-0 defeat, they kept trying to play football and tried to get men forward when they could. When they went down to ten men, i felt we could be in for another four goal haul, but it didn't happen and they wouldn't have deserved it.
I was glad, but surprised to see Saha start, and wondered how he would pair up with Tevez. As Fergie has said good players can always play together, and the good news is they looked a good partnership. As long as Saha can stay fit ( big ask i know ) it's another good option, amongst the embarrassment of riches that we have in the squad right now. Anderson and Hargreaves were excellent in midfield again, when Scholes is fit we really are spoilt for choice in central midfield. Hargreaves looked that little bit fitter than he did last week against Arsenal, when you think how well he has played in the small amount of games he has played so far this season, it's frightening to think how much stronger the defensive aspect of our midfield will be when he is really fit and firing on all cylinders.
The two goals came at a nice time in the match, just when it was looking like we might struggle to open them up. I suppose Blackburn will be really disappointed, to have defended as well as they had, to then concede a soft goal from their point of view. How did ronaldo end up being unmarked in the penalty area from a corner, he is a big lad and good with his head. It was an even better header than his effort in Kiev, he had to get the power into it that he did, or else the man on the line would have cleared it. Then to score another just a couple of minutes later, was a bit of a killer for them, though to be fair their heads did not go down. And the second was probably the best piece of football in the match. Great passing and movement combined in a lightning quick counter attack, to see Ronaldo finish a move that deserved to be a goal and he made no mistake. The two passes from Saha and Tevez during the build up, showed encouraging signs of them building up a partnership as good as Rooney and Tevez.
When you can bring players as good as Carrick and Nani on in the second half and barely miss players of the calibre of Scholes and Rooney, then the future looks too good to be true. Evra was magnificent again but man of the match had to be Ryan giggs who was absolutely outstanding, making several mazy runs in the second half as if he was 18 again. It's a pity that we have another round of internationals coming up, who wants to watch England when you see the brilliant football being served up by the boys in red. I hope Scotland win though, if they did get through that group, which was miles harder than England's, that would really highlight the incompetence of both the English international set up and English FA.

Fergie hails greatest squad
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7089910.stm