United Cruise To 6 Point Lead

Middlesborough 0 - Manchester United 2
Scorers
Manchester United: Giggs (25), Park (52)

Team: Foster, Vidic, Evans, O'Shea, Evra (Rafael 78), Scholes, Giggs, Park (Nani 75), Rooney, Berbatov, Macheda (Tevez 56)

This was an easy victory despite the fact that Fergie rung in the changes from midweeks exploits. Boro were never in the same class and their horrible defending just showed. They were lucky not to have conceded any earlier.

The game was made even better coz I caught it with a few good friends, one of whom just returned from Beijing with stories of eating binges that parallel those only found in fantasy novels.

Giggs scored in the 25th minute to give United a well-deserved lead. It was a coolly placed shot when the entire Boro defense was in panic mode. The recently crowned PFA player of the year, kept his head when everyone around him was panicking and passed the ball into the net past a static Brad Jones.

Jones could do nothing about United's second goal either. Rooney's vision and passing sliced the Boro backline into shreds, releasing Park on a one-to-one, which he finished. The pass was of a superb quality and the finishing matched it.

The rest of the game was just a matter of going thru the motions, with Berbatov spraying backpasses whenever he got the ball. It's a bit disappointing seeing our prized summer signing playing like he cost a tenth of what we paid for.

Other than that, everyone was good without being outstanding. In the final analysis, we were simply too good for a poor Boro side and thoroughly deserved the 3 points.

With just 4 games to go and a comfortable 6 point lead, it would take a super catastrophe of epic proportions to lose the title. Something that only happens in the worst of nightmares.

With our key players rested for Tuesdays encounter against Arsenal, I'm expecting for a good result to see us to the Champions League finals in Rome. I'm hoping we become the first team to repeat under the new format.