Manchester Utd 4 Wigan 0

Wayne Rooney

Man­chester Uni­ted 4 Wi­gan 0, Mil­len­ni­um Sta­dium, Eng­lish Foot­ball Lea­gue Cup Fi­nal, Mil­len­ni­um Sta­dium, Feb­ruary 26, 2006. Man­chester Uni­ted out­classed Wi­gan Ath­let­ic by 4-0 in the 2006 Lea­gue Cup Fi­nal at the 75,000 ca­pa­city Mil­len­ni­um Sta­dium in Car­diff thro­ugh a  brace by Way­ne Roo­ney and a goal each from Louis Saha and Cris­ti­ano Ronaldo.

Un­for­tu­nately for Wi­gan Ath­let­ic, Mi­ke Pol­litt picked up a ham­string in­jury in the 14th min­ute of the con­test and the for­mer Man­chester Uni­ted net­mind­er was re­placed by sec­ond choice goal­keeper John Fil­an. In front of an at­tend­ance of 65,000 people at the Mil­leni­um Sta­dium, The Man­cuni­ans ul­ti­mately took the lead as Eng­land in­ter­na­tion­al stri­ker Way­ne Roo­ney power­ed an un­stoppable shot pa­st Fil­an and in­to the back of the net twelve min­utes ahead of the ha­lf-time break. In the 55th min­ute of the en­counter, Louis Saha net­ted United´s sec­ond goal of the af­ter­noon be­fore Por­tuguese sharp­shoot­er Cris­ti­ano Ron­aldo made it 3-0 just four min­utes la­ter. Then, in the 61st min­ute of the Lea­gue Cup Fi­nal, Roo­ney put the cherry on the Man­chester Uni­ted cake when the pre­vi­ous Good­ison Park marks­man com­pleted his brace wi­th a clo­se ran­ge ef­fort to make the fi­nal score read 4-0 in fa­vour of The Reds. Man­chester Uni­ted Te­am: Ed­win van der Sar, Ga­ry Ne­ville, Mi­kael Sil­vestre, John O’Shea, Rio Fer­dinand, Wes Bro­wn, Ji-Sung Park, Louis Saha, Way­ne Roo­ney, Ry­an Gig­gs, Cris­ti­ano Ron­aldo. Sub­stitutes: Pat­rice Ev­ra, Kier­an Richard­son, Ne­manja Vid­ic, Ruud van Nistel­rooy, Tim How­ard. Wi­gan Ath­let­ic Te­am: Mi­chael Pol­litt, Ar­jan De Zeeuw, Stephane Hen­choz, Leigh­ton Baines, Paul Scharner, Pas­cal Chim­bonda, Gra­ham Kavanagh, Jim­my Bul­lard, Ja­son Ro­berts, Ga­ry Teale, Henri Ca­mara. Sub­stitutes: Mat­thew Jack­son, An­dreas Jo­hans­son, Lee Mc­Culloch, Reto Zie­g­ler, John Filan.

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