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Paul Scholes - still scores goals

He still scores goals, Paul Scholes, and from Manchester United's point of view it is a good thing someone does. United went joint top of the Premier League with this win, though until the Wayne Rooney-Danny Welbeck partnership spluttered into life 15 minutes from the end they sorely lacked a cutting edge.

The Cup heroics against Manchester City now over, it was easy to forget that the home side were playing to avoid a third successive league defeat, though all too easy to recall how Blackburn managed to overcome them on New Year's Eve. Had Bolton showed the same amount of fight and finishing prowess they might have taken something from the game, for despite the gloss that Michael Carrick's third goal gave the final scoreline, this was another laboured United performance, not one to cause much lost sleep at City.

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