Manchester United 1 - 0 Bolton

We were back in the Premier League this weekend, with a nice handful of games being played on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, Bolton came to Old Trafford to visit the league leaders at home, with a tough game on hands.

The ball went back and forth between both sides as both teams kept trying to get the ball in the back of the net, but none of them making it. Rooney had some great long distance strikes, showing the striker is still making his way back into the glory light of his former self, with Nani and Valencia both playing and making great plays.

Nani had a couple good shots on goal all of the while being able to make good crosses to Hernandez and Rooney. This was the first game of the 5 game touchline ban for Sir Alex Ferguson, and the first Premier League game in a while for Manchester United who played Chelsea and Liverpool, than two games against Marseille and cup match against Arsenal.

But not all was happy for the United side, with Johnny Evans recieving a straight red card for his challenge against Stuart Holden, who had to leave the game with a nasty gash on his leg. This was quoted from ESPN;

The Northern Ireland defender has never been regarded as a dirty player and on first glance, it appeared Evans had merely come out on top in a 50-50 duel for possession.

Marriner was close enough to come up with a different theory, producing a red card that forced Michael Carrick to take up a defensive position and Rooney to operate in central midfield.

For Holden, the injury was serious enough to warrant immediate calls for a stretcher, just over 12 months after he broke a leg in a tackle with Nigel de Jong that nearly forced him to miss the World Cup.

Finally though, the home side would eventually pull out and show the true glory and drive that is behind this Man United team as a Nani shot on goal bounced off of Jussi Jaaskelainen, who before this was having such a super game having made so many stops on some great shots, and Berbatov was able to tap the ball in watching it bounce across the line and the fans erupting with joy.

The game ended, with Bolton heading home a bit disappointed because of Matthew Taylor's free header straight into the flying dutchman's hands, a sure goal. Instead, Manchester United goes 5 points ahead of Arsenal, who failed to win their game and drew against West Brom.

Sir Alex was quoted at the end of the game with a interview on MUTV, "Today's game was a really important game, and the fans were really behind us which helped us out after the sending off. These lads have fought through 5 tough games in the past, and they deserve to have a sort of off game like today's." When asked about Evan's red card "I think the ref sent him off because of the injury, not because of the tackle. His foot was raised off of the ground and we all know Johnny isn't a rude boy, it was just a unfortunate tackle."

Laughing a bit, he also talked about his in booth experience, having to use a on ground telephone to communicate with his team. He was happy to say that the international break could not have come at a better time, giving his team a well deserved break and get some of his players that he has been missing back on the team, such as his defenders who has taken another hit in losing Evan's to a 3 game ban for his straight red card.

Next game is on April 2nd, away at West Ham. Post your comments below and let me know what you thought of the game and will this international break be good enough to bring back some of our injured guys, or what will we have to do?