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| Rooney quick off the mark as United go back on top Posted: 18 Dec 2011 06:44 AM PST  Manchester United's Phil Jones (right) and team mate Wayne Rooney go for the ball against Queens Park Rangers during their English Premier League match at Loftus Road Stadium in London on December 18, 2011. ― Reuters pic Rooney grabbed his 12th league goal of the season with a diving header off a cross from Antonio Valencia on a bright but bitterly cold afternoon at the smallest ground in the top flight. Michael Carrick made it 2-0 in the 56th after taking the ball off Joey Barton in midfield, setting off down the pitch and unleashing a shot from the edge of the box that Czech keeper Radek Cerny could not keep out despite getting a hand to. United have 39 points from 16 games, a point and a game more than neighbours City who were hosting fifth-placed Arsenal in a later kickoff. Chelsea drew 1-1 at relegation-threatened Wigan Athletic yesterday and could lose third place to Tottenham Hotspur, playing at home to Sunderland in an afternoon start. Liverpool were playing at Aston Villa. Rooney's goal was the third fastest of the season so far and United could have made it 2-0 after just three minutes against promoted opponents who last beat them back in the old first division in 1992. Danny Welbeck also had the ball in the net after 24 minutes but was ruled offside and Cerny made two crucial saves in the space of three minutes to keep his side in the game. QPR had a good chance to equalise just before the break when Jay Bothroyd swept in a low cross that was just too quick for Jamie Mackie to get a toe to at full stretch. Carrick's goal ended a 70 match drought for the player, nearly two years on from his last for United in the Premier League. Mexican striker Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez returned to action, barely two weeks after an ankle injury that was expected to keep him out for up to four weeks, as a second half substitute for Welbeck. ― Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Barca thrash Santos 4-0 to win Club World Cup Posted: 18 Dec 2011 04:35 AM PST  Lionel Messi of Spain's Barcelona kicks to score their fourth goal during their Club World Cup final soccer match against Brazil's Santos in Yokohama, south of Tokyo December 18, 2011. – Reuters pic The Argentine put the Spanish giants in front with an exquisite chip after 17 minutes in Yokohama before Xavi drilled home a second seven minutes later. Cesc Fabregas stabbed home Barca's third on the stroke of halftime as Barca threatened to run riot and came within a whisker of another goal moments after the restart. Messi made it 4-0 eight minutes from time, brilliantly latching on to a Dani Alves pass and bursting past goalkeeper Rafael Cabral to slip the ball into the net. – Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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