Manchester United can be held

Goal from Paul Scholes

Paul Scholes scored twice against Newcastle united on New Year day, but still Manchester United fail to win the game. Thanks to the goal from teenager David Edgar on the 77th minute. Newcastle fetch one point out of a losing game. This means that Manchester united now has to wait for the Chelsea game tomorrow to find out how much is their lead. After this victory the lead is now 7 points, but Chelsea has a game in hand and they can easily reduce the margin to 4 points if they can win over Aston Villa.

Surprisingly, Newcastle united took the lead on the New Year day on 33rd minute. James Milner gave a lot to cheer for the capacity crowd in St.James' park until 40th minute, when the first Scholes strike came. Soon after the interval he scored again to put Red Devils into a 2-1 lead. Ironically, it was a deflection off the legs off the Scholes, that gave the draw to Newcastle on 77th minute. The long range shot took a significant deflection off Scholes, making Van der Sar helpless at the goal.

Rooney in action against Newcastle United's Scott Parker