5-star Berba

Delighted 5-goal hero Berba celebrates with his teammates

Prior to this game, Berbatov was running into a bit of a trouble. He has not been scoring ever since his hat-trick against the Scousers in September. It looked at first that the Scouser hat-trick was a sign of greater things to come. But instead of building up on that and cashing on the bad press that Rooney is having, he allowed the scoring feat to be continued by Hernandez instead. His failure to contribute to the goal tally has increased the amount of frustration in the United circle. But nobody, and I reckon not even Fergie, would have anticipated the Blackburn massacre which was led by the Bulgarian. Fergie had such low opinions on Berba that he did not even feature on the bench for the Wigan game.

Within just a minute or so after kick-off, Berbatov slotted in the first goal to put United in the lead. The early lead was certainly welcoming but United had to pay attention to ensure that it doesn't go slipping away like the past. The second goal came from a Rooney assist as Korean hero Park Ji Sung finishes a fine run-in into the box. Barely 3 minutes later, Chimbonda did some slack back passing and Berba pounced it and swiftly delivered it into the back of the net. That was a shocking self-destructing move and there was no way Blackburn is gonna come alive out of that. Just a minute after the 2nd half started, Berbatov completes the hat-trick rout. It was already impressive at that time, to announce his return to goalscoring from a hat-trick to a hat-trick but United were not done yet as the blitz continues. 1 minute later, Anderson produced a slicing long range pass to a dashing Nani who smashes in for the 5th goal of the match. By now, Blackburn felt that they are going to have a long long way to go in the match with 40 over minutes still to play for. At the 61st minute, some chaotic movements in the box saw Berba pouncing on a rebound from Park's feet and put in his 4th goal, which is quite a hard feat to achieve already. Berba was not satisfied with just that as he wrote himself in the history books in the 69th minute by slotting in the 5th goal at the tightest angle, making him only the 4th player to score 5 goals in the history of the Premier League. That is one crazy performance from the Bulgarian and it does looked as if all the goals that he was supposed to score were clogged up and it was suddenly released in a diarrhea fit. Suddenly, Dimitar Berbatov became the leading top scorer of the Premier League. He has to start distributing his goals around in the future instead of letting it clog like constipation..lol. Blackburn had a consolation in the last bits of the game because Johny Evans was going to sleep while defending. In any case, the Old Trafford crowd did have a super match to remember by, just like 7-1 smashing of Roma a few years back.

Man Utd's massive win was the best way to announce their charge to the top of the league table as Chelsea faltered yet again in Newcastle with a 1-1 draw. Things are looking great for Fergie and the team as Liverpool got destroyed too at White Hart Lane with a last minute winning goal from Spurs and the noisy neighbours could only manage a draw. Just need to tighten up at Blackpool this coming weekend so that the team enters into the match against Wenger's boys in the highest morale possible and I'll be looking forward to be there to witness the match live =D