When Alexander Buttner crashed home an emphatic third on the half-hour mark, the game appeared to be effectively over. But Steve Clarke's plucky West Brom nabbed one back five minutes before the break, when James Morrison slotted home a close-range finish. Then Chelsea loanee — and future Red — Romelu Lukaku was introduced for the second period, and the Belgian soon reduced the deficit to one with a well-placed but tame effort that Anders Lindegaard looked disappointed to see pass beneath him.
However, United quickly reasserted our grip. Robin van Persie's 30th goal of a sublime debut season made it , and then Chicharito nabbed the final effort of the Ferguson era by tapping home substitute Ryan Giggs's cross from the left. Sir Alex enjoys a light-hearted moment — clutching his trademark chewing gum — before kick-off. That meant the lead was once again stretched to three, as it had been in the first period. But, chaotically, some haphazard defending let the Baggies back in within the final 10 minutes.
Lukaku and Youssouf Mulumbu scored within a minute of each other to urge the Hawthorns to its feet as the match neared its conclusion, and with four minutes remaining, Lukaku completed a remarkable hat-trick by bundling a loose ball over the line from a couple of yards.
Ferguson was impassive in the dugout, no doubt marvelling at football's ability to continually throw up something new: this was the highest-scoring match of his United tenure, 1, games in. There was no final three points, though the draw did mean that Manchester City had been cast adrift by a whopping 11 points.
Goals Against. Alex Ferguson. Roberto Mancini. Arsene Wenger. Rafael Benitez. Andre Villas-Boas. David Moyes. Paolo Di Canio. Martin Jol. Steve Clarke.
Harry Redknapp. Alan Pardew. Brendan Rodgers. Sam Allardyce. Michael Laudrup. Tony Pulis. A versatile player who is happy to play anywhere on the left side of the pitch, he was most commonly deployed as a left-back under Ferguson, where he looked a threat going forwards but somewhat vulnerable in the other direction. Now aged 28, Buttner is back at his first club, Vitesse, following three years at Dynamo Moscow. The central defender joined West Brom in , after just shy of appearances for Manchester United.
A Northern Ireland international, Evans has impressed at the Hawthorns, and he was heavily linked with a move to Arsenal in Manchester United defender Phil Jones.
The second of three Red Devils featured here that remain at Manchester United, Valencia has now racked up more than appearances over 8 years in Manchester. It was supposedly a choice of Eden Hazard or Shinji Kagawa for Manchester United when they brought the Japanese international to the club in Nine times out of 10, it would be unfathomable that the Red Devils would give up a lead like this — during the season they had put nine past the Baggies in their two matches with no reply.
The striker got his first just five minutes after coming on, somehow managing to pass the ball past Anders Lindegaard from outside the box. A bit more normality was brought to the proceedings when Robin van Persie and Javier Hernandez got on the scoresheet, putting United up. It was the 86th minute when Lukaku managed to bring the game level.
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