Manchester United 5-0 Wigan athletic

Fergie rotated the squad , partly down to the busy xmas period and partly down to yet more injuries to our defence meant Carrick had to drop back to partner Evans in the heart of the defence. Our injuries this season have become something else. To make matters worse Evans left the field at half time to leave a centre half pairing of Carrick and Evra. It was a good job it was only Wigan and a good job we were at home. We need to get bodies back and quick because that defence would have been well and truly found out by a better side than Wigan.
And speaking of Wigan, just how bad were they, that was aabout as bad an away performance as i can remember. The second half was virtually a traing ground performance, in fact United hardly got out of first gear for the whole 90 minutes and yet we ended with five goals and it could have been more.
Once again United got off to a good start taking the lead after just 8 minutes, the goal coming from our first serious attack as Evra beat two men so easily it wasn't true and crossed for Park to side foot the ball into the back of the net. I have to admit that at the match i thought the ref had made the right call with the sending off, from our view it looked like he had elbowed Carrick. Obviously the TV pictures showed that it was very harsh and effectively killed the game off. There was no way a ten man Wigan were going to get anything out of this game.
Berbatov added a second just before the break and after that it was basically a question of how much United wanted to improve the goal difference. Eve though he claimed a hatrick and the two goal from open play were pretty good goals, i didn't actually think Barbatov had that great a game. His second goal was classic Berbatov though, an exquisite first touch turn and toe poke to make ti 3-0 on the hour.
Valencia was playing right back, not where i'm happiest seeming play to be honest, but he was basically playing as a second winger. It was now his turn to get in on the action as he hit a pile driver into the corner of the net to make it 4-0. The finishing touch to a highly satisfactory day came from the penalty spot as Rooney allowed Berbatov the chance to claim a hatrick after Park had been upended.
When the rest of the results came in a very happy Old trafford crowd left for their post match pints. I hadn't really fancied West Brom to do us a favour so that was a bonus. I do fancy Sunderland to give them a hard game next week under new manager Martin O'Neill, so fingers crossed.

The injury woes don't get any better with the news that Jonny Evans will be out for two weeks, God knows what out defence will look like for the FA cup tie at the boo camp. If it's anything like the line up we finished with yesterday i think i'll leave the country.