MANCHESTER- Danny Welbeck, Anderson and Wayne Rooney were all on target as Manchester United continued their perfect start to the season with a 3-0 victory over Tottenham at Old Trafford here on Monday.
Sir Alex Ferguson once again underlined his confidence in youth with a selection that saw French international Patrice Evra as the only player older than his mid-20s.With Javier Hernandez missing the start of the season with concussion, Welbeck has been given the opportunity of first-team football after a year on loan at Sunderland.And he took his chance by opening the scoring for United just after the hour and within 10 minutes he had set up a second goal for Anderson in some style.Rooney then got on the end of a Ryan Giggs cross to head in late on to make it six points from United’s opening two matches. Tottenham’s start was delayed by the riots in London causing their opening match against Everton to be suspended.Having claimed that Luka Modric, a transfer target for Chelsea, was not in the right frame of mind to feature at Old Trafford, Harry Redknapp did indeed leave the Croatian out of his squad.But Ferguson provided a surprise by including Hernandez, who had been expected to miss another couple of weeks with concussion, on the bench. – Nampa-AFP
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