Man Utd beat Hull City 3-1 in English Premier Leag

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Man Utd beat Hull City 3-1 in English Premier League

LONDON: Manchester United beat Hull 3-1 to close to within two 2 of league leaders Chelsea in the race for the English Premier League title. Wayne Rooney scored one and was instrumental in Man Utd�s other two goals at the Kingston Communication Stadium.

The win leaves Man Utd with 40 points with Chelsea on 42 and Arsenal on 38 with a game in-hand. Premier League Title odds are now 9/4 for United with Chelsea out to evens and Arsenal cut to 7/2.

Man United local rivals Manchester City have also been cut down to 33/1 after their win at the weekend.

Wayne Rooney scored the opener in the second minute of injury-time to give the visitors the lead at half-time, but Hull City caused problems of their own and Craig Fagan levelled from the penalty-spot on the hour-mark after Jozy Altidore was brought down by Rafael Da Silva.

An own-goal from Andy Dawson gave United the lead again in the 73rd minute, with the Tigers veteran turning the ball into his own net from close-range to make it 2-1 to the visitors, despite the home-side having had chances themselves.

Dimitar Berbatov was on-hand to score United�s winner in the 82nd minute, tapping-in a cross from Wayne Rooney from close-range to seal the 3-1 win for United.

Manchester United started the game strongly, with an early attempt from Ryan Giggs going over the crossbar and Wayne Rooney shooting wide of Boaz Myhill�s goal.

Kamil Zayette fouled Rooney on the edge of the penalty-area, with Ryan Giggs taking the free-kick, but his shot went just wide.

But Hull began to carve chances of their own and the first shot on-target in the 17th minute, but it was easily saved by Tomasz Kuszczak.

Hull City thought they should have been awarded a penalty after Wes Brown brought down Richard Garcia in the area, but referee Alan Wiley waved away all appeals.

[Mohammad Sajid]

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