The 2nd Coming Of Scholes Inspires United

Manchester United 2 - QPR 0
Scorers
Manchester United: Rooney (pen 15), Scholes (68)

Red Card
QPR: Derry (14)


Team: De Gea, Rio, Evans, Rafael (Jones 74), Evra, Scholes (Cleverley 74), Carrick, Young (Giggs 62), Valencia, Rooney, Welbeck

Being Easter, this was set up nicely for Scholes to play the hero. Ever since he has resurrected his career with the Red Devils, he's been the cornerstone of everything good that's happened in midfield. He's goal in the second half calmed the nerves at Old Trafford and pushed us to victory against a dogged QPR.

In recent weeks, we've seen luck turn to our favour, none more so in our last 3 fixture. A late penalty not given against Carrick, late goals against Blackburn and in today's game, a dodgy penalty and red card in our favour.

Ashley Young was caught in an offside position and subsequently dived to win us a penalty early in the game. The dive was blatant and had it gone against us, I would have been screaming bloody murder. And if the offside and dive was not bad enough, QPR were further punished with having Shaun Derry cruelly sent off for a foul he didn't deserve. I suppose when you're at the wrong end of the table, decisions really do go against you. In this case, 3 ridiculously poor decisions went against Mark Hughes' team, all at once.

Rooney scored the penalty, and QPR had to readjust their game plan early in the game. Actually, the plan was the same: pack more men in the box. We got into a number of good positions to add a second, but it never came.

The was a mini-revival for QPR early in the second half, but it came to nought. United began to stamp their authority and man advantage with both Rafael and Carrick hitting the crossbar. Kenny was in excellent form in goal, but the stage was set for Scholes.

After a failed clearance from Taarabt, Rafael latched on to the ball and fed Scholes for a screamer to settle the United nerves and gave a cushion for a comfortable win.

In the other fixture that had me late in doing this writeup, Arsenal did their job by deflating the Shitty balloon further with a 1-0 win.

So here is how it stands, 6 games and 8 points in the lead. All we have to do is to win 3 of the remaining 6 and the title returns to Old Trafford. With Shitty collapsing under the pressure, it looks like a tall order to lose the trophy.