Man Utd beat Liverpool convincingly, aided by the sending off of Javier Mascherano for dissent and a second yellow card. While some Liverpool fans will point to that sending off as the turning point, the harsh reality is that Utd were 1-0 up and could have scored 3 by the latter stages of the first half.

Liverpool's defense looked poor for throughout this game and only some rare poor finishing from Rooney and Ronaldo prevented this from being a bigger thrashing.

Utd will feel very good about their days work and will be hoping that the result between Arsenal and Chelsea will be as good for them.

The man of the match in this one could well be the former Spurs man Michael Carrick who made the game look very, very easy at times.