United’s captain underlines return to assertive form in scoring the winner against Liverpool and breaking Thierry Henry’s one-club Premier League scoring recordDuring the Premier League’s flush of European dominance a decade ago Real Madrid’s sporting director,Jorge Valdano, famously described matches such as these – tight, or angry heavyweight English collisions – as the equivalent of a stadium full of people watching “a shit on a stick”. On a bleak January afternoon the current incarnations of Liverpool and Manchester United produced their own variation on Valdano’s theme for the first 78 minutes of this match. This was shit on a stick football,just without the stick. Or without the football much of the time.
And yet by the close all that really mattered was the result. For United there is no such thing as a wrong win at Liverpool. Just as for Wayne Rooney there is no day when a performance that ends with a winning goal spanked with gleeful fury into the roof of the Anfield Road close net can be described as a destitute one.
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Source: theguardian.com