Giggs Continues Rolling

Manchester United 2 - Wolfsburg 1
Scorers
Manchester United: Giggs (59), Carrick (78)
Wolfsburg: Dzeko (56)

Team: Kuszczak, Rio, Vidic, O'Shea, Evra, Anderson, Carrick, Giggs, Valencia (Fletcher 82), Owen (Berbatov 20), Rooney

Huge win. For a brief moment it felt that we were going away with nothing in the game but for the third time in 10 days we had Giggs to thank.

Wolfsburg had taken a shock lead, quite against the run of play from a good header by Dzeko. But Giggs restored parity with a hugely deflected freekick only 3 minutes later.

After some brilliant play from Berbatov, Giggs laid on the ball to Carrick to finish the Germany champions off in the 78th minute with a wonderful curler.

It wasn't our best game, but in the end we produced the goods to take pole position in the group. That said, I'm been a pretty big admirer of Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga. I'm kinda disappointed that they didn't show much in this game. Hopefully we'd get a better chance to see their true potential in the reverse fixture....with us emerging as the winners of that one of course.

The game wasn't much of a spectacle in the first half. It was pouring, resulting in mistakes and misplaced passes from both teams. Besides two good chances spurned by Carrick, the only other memorable incident was Owen leaving the pitch with an injury. It's a worrying sign since we're rather short on the stiking department.

His replacement, Berbatov, had a brilliant game. He and Giggs had a hand in everything good we did today. His little flicks and arrogant style of play gave us a swagger we haven't seen since Cantona departed. But let's not get overly excited. It's only one game, and plenty more come. There is still a long way to go before he can measure up to the big man.

Giggs, on the other hand, was simply magnificent. He simply never gives up. His indian summer has been going on for quite sometime and ever since the departure of Ronaldo, he's upped his game to another level. The one thing that worries me here is that from the last few games, it seems that we're becoming too reliant on him. Let's hope Ferguson paces the Welsh wizard. It's a long long season and we've barely scratched the surface.

It was a good performance all around. We probably could have had more had the linesman been less flag-happy.