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West Ham 0-1 Manchester United

Highlights: West Ham 0-1 Manchester United

1:14 minutes Full Goal Highlights

1st Half: West Ham 0-1 Manchester United

1:35 minutes Goal Highlights

2nd Half: West Ham 0-1 Manchester United

1:22 minutes Goal Highlights

30/10/08: Manchester United 2-0 West Ham

7:11 minutes Full Match Highlights

Ronaldo: Manchester United 1-0 West Ham

30.10.2008 Highlights – Eatlime

Ronaldo: Manchester United v West Ham

30.10.2008 Highlights – Eatlime

Manchester United moved back to the top of the Premier League as a sublime Ryan Giggs goal saw them overcome West Ham.

Ryan Giggs scored a magnificent second half winner to send Manchester United two points clear of Liverpool at the top of the Premier League, as the champions kept a 13th consecutive clean sheet.

In a lacklustre game, Edwin van der Sar never looked in serious danger of being denied a British record for not conceding a goal that now extends to 1,212 minutes.

But United looked equally unlikely to score either until Giggs stepped inside Carlton Cole, burst into the box and thrashed home a shot that was enough to end West Ham’s impressive eight-match unbeaten run at Upton Park and edge closer to the championship triumph that will see the Old Trafford outfit match Liverpool’s impressive tally.

Hammers old boys Rio Ferdinand and Michael Carrick were given warm ovations but Carlos Tevez received an even louder burst of applause in recognition of his efforts in the Eastenders’ survival fight two years ago, which continues to cause the Premier League so much grief.

By that point, Giggs had already sliced a volley wide in an encouraging start for the champions that also involved a couple of trademark piledrivers from Paul Scholes, one of which Cristiano Ronaldo turned goalwards, forcing Robert Green to make an impressive save.

A brilliant passage of close control involving Giggs, Tevez and Dimitar Berbatov ended with the Bulgarian lashing a volley goalwards that James Collins found himself accidentally in the way of.

Another move of similar quality brought a Nemanja Vidic shot into the body of the same man and it seemed just a matter of time before United eventually made the breakthrough.

Instead, with Upson outstanding and Scott Parker snapping into a series of tackles in midfield, the Hammers slowly got themselves a foothold in the contest.

If ever there was a man needing to impress watching England coach Fabio Capello, it was Carlton Cole.

Unfortunately, Cole turned like a giant barge as he collected Jack Collison’s short pass with his back to goal.

What seemed like a clear shooting chance quickly disappeared as Vidic and Ferdinand converged on the former Chelsea man, who seems set to win his first cap in Seville on Wednesday.

Cole had earlier managed to gain half a yard on Ferdinand to reach David Di Michele’s through ball but he is not the first striker in recent times to find van der Sar too big a wall to knock over.

When the 33rd minute ticked by, van der Sar eclipsed the record of old Aberdeen stalwart Bobby Clark, who went 1,155 minutes of league action without conceding a goal during the 1970-71 campaign to claim that British record.

The veteran Dutchman’s goal was still intact when Di Michele was crowded out on the edge of United’s penalty area and the loose ball fell to a marauding Lucas Neill, whose curling shot probably did not stretch van der Sar enough.

It was a similar story for United, with Ronaldo in particular getting increasingly agitated with his team-mates, John O’Shea receiving one mouthful and even Sir Alex Ferguson getting a passionate response as the Scot made a point to Ronaldo on the touchline.

Yet if the bad temper was taken as a sign United’s focus was not fully wired in, West Ham got it horribly wrong.

After Giggs had his corner half-cleared, Scholes swiftly spread the ball back to his long-time colleague.

Cole flew in to make a tackle by the touchline. He failed, as did his Hammers team-mates, who expected Giggs to eventually transfer the ball to his generally lethal left foot. Instead Giggs struck it with his right, beyond a startled Green, and into the net.

Ronaldo, his mind back on the job, watched his thunderbolt effort curl just wide after taking a deflection before Neill’s next, wayward, shot allowed van der Sar to edge past Chris Woods and seal a rather complicated British record for minutes without conceding a goal in domestic combat.

As Gamba Osaka scored three times against him in Japan recently and Derby, twice, and Tottenham have found the net in cup combat against the Red Devils recently when van der Sar has not been in goal, it is all rather confusing.

The Hammers fans can be proud of a team that has come such a long way in a matter of months under Zola and Clarke’s leadership.The end score did not justify how hard the Hammers worked, In the seasons to come we could expect West Ham United to be a top 6 contender with Zola as manager.

A rather more straightforward statistic is United are back on top again, two points clear of Liverpool, with a game in hand, as they close in on a record that really does matter; 18 league titles.

This post was submitted by Timesofmalta.

Capello has named his chosen squad for the games against Andorra to be played on Saturday 6th Sept at 7pm and Croatia on the 10th Sept at 8pm.

Capello insisted on the FA Website that no player is guaranteed Captaincy or a place in the starting X1.

Players not in the squad due to injuries are Steven Gerrard, Owen Hargreaves, Michael Carrick and Micah Richards, with Portsmouth’s Glenn Johnson and Fulham’s Jimmy Bullard brought into the England squad as backup. After the fine penalty save Robert Green made on Saturday he finally gets his call up while Lescott comes in as backup for Terry and Ferdinand.

England squad to play Andorra and Croatia:

Goalkeepers: Robinson (Blackburn), James (Portsmouth), Green (West Ham)

Defenders: Lescott (Everton), Bridge (Chelsea), A Cole (Chelsea), Terry (Chelsea), Brown (Manchester United), Ferdinand (Manchester United), Johnson (Portsmouth), Upson (West Ham)

Midfielders: Barry (Aston Villa), J Cole (Chelsea), Lampard (Chelsea), Bullard (Fulham), Beckham (Los Angeles Galaxy), Downing (Middlesbrough), Bentley (Tottenham), Jenas (Tottenham)

Strikers: Walcott (Arsenal), Rooney (Manchester United), Defoe (Portsmouth), Heskey (Wigan)