Noisy neighbours silenced by the ginger genius

Manchester United’s legendary determination and never-say-die attitude saw the reigning EPL champions beat Manchester City at Eastlands. Patrice Evra waltzed past the City defence and played in a perfect cross for Paul Scholes to glance into goal.

Sir Alex Ferguson hailed the latest heroics of his team and reveled in this season’s third last-minute win against Manchester City and told BBC:

It was an amazing finish,” said the United boss as Paul Scholes’s late goal kept United on leaders Chelsea’s heels.

“We’ve three last-minute goals against them now this season but deserve it,” said the 68-year-old Ferguson.

“We had the best chances but it did not look like anyone was going to win,” reflected Ferguson, who has been riled by big-spending City this season. “The game became very open in the last 10 minutes.

“Derbies are derbies and the way we have won has given our supporters great excitement,” added Ferguson. “To do it that way on City’s own ground is a great result for us.

“We wanted to keep a clean sheet because we know if we get back to zero against it gives us a chance. One-nil wins have played a big part in our title wins and 1-0 today shows that’s true.”

The United boss singled out Scholes for special praise after the midfielder’s headed winner.

“No-one is better than him at ghosting into the box,” said Ferguson of the 35-year-old who signed a new one-year extension to his contract on Friday.

“He was man of the match today, he was wonderful, he’s such a skilful player.”

Scholes had just put pen to paper on a one year contract extension and rewarded the faith shown in him by scoring late in added time.

Scholes said: “I think we were the team pressing to try to score and fortunately we were lucky enough to win the game with not much time left.

“It’s nice to win any game against City, and away from home especially.”

This was the third time Mancher United beat Manchester City in added time this season and has heaped grief and misery on Manchester fans of the blue persuasion. Michael Owen scored in dramatic fashion when the team’s met in the league and then in the second leg of the Carling Cup semi final when Wayne Rooney scored to take United to the final.

It is a day Manchester United fans across the world will enjoy and savour.

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