Dimitar Berbatov opened the scoring three minutes past the half-hour mark after latching onto a Paul Scholes deft pass to go one-on-one with the keeper and slide past him.

Darren Fletcher doubled the Red Devils' lead three minutes from the break after a goal-mouth scramble.

Ryan Giggs put the icing on the cake five minutes from time with a magnificent volley from an acute angle, when he connected with Scholes' clever chipped pass.

The match's goals