Wayne Rooney struck a superb hat trick in a scintillating display to preserve Manchester United’s blistering start to the season as they thrashed Bolton Wanderers at the Reebok Stadium.
The England striker was in fine form once again for Sir Alex Ferguson’s side as he reformed his deadly partnership with Javier Hernandez who scored the other two goals to make it four wins in a row for United.
It was the Mexican who opened the scoring after five minutes and showed that his injury lay-off hasn’t dampened his sharpness turning in Nani’s delicious low cross after giving marker Gary Cahill the slip.
Rooney then cleared a Chris Eagles effort off the line before doubling his sides advantage after 20 minutes prodding home Phil Jones’ wonderfully swept pass from the right.
Five minutes later he made it three with Jones again the provider. The centre half tip toed his way into the penalty area before teeing up Rooney to sweep the ball past Jussi Jaaskelainen.
United were rampant and it was no surprise when Hernandez added a fourth just before the hour mark beating Jaaskelainen with a low drive at the back post after collecting Michael Carricks cross.
It was fitting that Rooney had the final say on matters collecting Nani’s cutback before nonchalantly lashing in his third goal of the game to make it back-t0-back hat tricks.
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