Manchester United has something to be celebrating and it is their victory against the Wigan Athletic 1-0, which gave them two points to move just two points away from the leader of the table, Liverpool. However, the bad news is that their top striker Wayne Rooney had a hamstring injury that will keep him out of practice for at least three weeks, hoping not longer.

Wayne Rooney scored the winning goal that gave Manchester United the victory on Wednesday at the Old Trafford Stadium, on a game that was a little complicated for Wigan since the defence of United did a great job during the entire game.

The Manchester United has to face an important game on Saturday against Bolton at the Reebok Stadium, and with the absence of Rooney it will be more complicated for them, especially by adding that Johnny Evans is also injured and Patrice Evra damaged his foot on Sunday’s game against Chelsea, which was the most important victory for the team until now. If United, even with this complications, achieve the victory on Saturday they could be moving to the first place for the first time in the season, which is their main goal.

“We need to kick on now – this is the time because we are in the run-in,” Sir Alex Ferguson said. “I’m delighted with the win after beating Chelsea because big games take a lot out of you mentally, the concentration levels needed take their toll”.

He also added that they have some quite good players that will take the position of the players that are injured at the moment and that he knows these players will give the best of themselves to achieve the victory on Saturday. Carlos Tevez, for example, did a fantastic job when he replaced Rooney due to his injury on Wednesday’s match. Wigan had a hard time trying to stop him in several attempts he had with his team during the second half of the game.

For Sir Alex Ferguson, Wigan did a very good job. Their performance in the second half of the game was very neat and brilliant but he added that Manchester United had Nemanja Vidic in the centre of their defence and for Sir Ferguson; there is no better player in his position than Nemanja right now in the country because he considers that Vidic is a very complete football player.

On the other hand, for Wigan Athletic boss Steve Bruce; their loss was very disappointing because he knows that the team did a very good job during the whole game. The beginning of the game was very difficult since the goal was scored in the first minute but they overcame that situation and concentrated in the rest of the game, although the efforts were not enough at the end. Bruce also stated that they were playing against one of the best teams in the country and even so they did a good job and he was very proud of his players as well.

Manchester has a complicated game on Saturday but we hope that best for the team; hopefully they may achieve their main goal, the top position of the English Premier League table.

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