00:00...of the defeat at Everton last Saturday, and Alex Ferguson continuing with his policy of rotating the players.
00:08Andre Kanchelskis is back in the side this afternoon. Lee Sharp drops to substitute, otherwise it's the same team that played at Goodison.
00:17Ipswich have proved a problem side to United in the past. They drew here 0-0 last season, and after their defeat at the hands of Newcastle in midweek,
00:26manager Craig Burley has brought back Steve Palmer and Geraint Williams for their experience in midfield.
00:33The referee this afternoon is Mr Graham Pohl of Tylehurst.
00:39Ince for Cole over the top of Wark. Giggs is available. In first time to Erwin.
00:47All right, Williams made sure that he arrived at the same time as the ball did at the feet of Dennis Erwin.
01:00Giggs looking for a target.
01:03Hops instead for Dennis Erwin.
01:08Erwin again. Hughes has made a break.
01:10Out wide to Roy Keane.
01:17Well struck. In at the post.
01:191-0 Men United.
01:22And we've had just about 15 minutes.
01:27And the shot was precise enough to beat Craig Forrest.
01:30And in off the post.
01:31John Wark.
01:42Yellow.
01:42Oh, and stay in play.
01:44Giggs charged it down.
01:46And he can continue the run right into the penalty area.
01:48And there are hordes of red shirts arriving.
01:51And one of them was Andy Cole.
01:54And they've lifted the roof off Old Trafford.
01:57What a super goal.
01:59They just broke Hipswich down.
02:03It was really Frank Yallop's mistake.
02:06Although the bounce certainly favoured the players in red.
02:09And Giggs was away like a whippet.
02:13And when he looked up.
02:14There were more red shirts bearing down on Craig Forrest than there were blue defenders.
02:20And Cole gets his third goal for Manchester United.
02:23In what is his seventh appearance.
02:27Since his arrival from Newcastle.
02:33Here's Alex Mathie.
02:35Inside nicer to Slater.
02:38They've got it out.
02:39To Mathie.
02:40He's kept his feet.
02:42And Bruce has got it out from the six-yard box.
02:45When Schmeichel was way off his line.
02:47Canchelskis.
02:57Again Manchester United turning defence very quickly into attack.
03:01McLear on his outside.
03:03Invites a decent cross.
03:05It's forced him wide though.
03:07They've got it back with ease.
03:09Here's Hughes.
03:10Spectacular.
03:11Off the bar.
03:11Cole.
03:12It's his second.
03:13It's United's third.
03:15But Cole has gone down injured.
03:16Spectacular.
03:21Spectacular.
03:22Bicycle kick from Mark Hughes.
03:23Which had beaten Forrest.
03:25Back off the woodwork.
03:28Cole slotted it in.
03:34Hughes.
03:37Teasing and tormenting them.
03:39Out to Dennis Irwin.
03:41To the back post.
03:42Cole's in there.
03:43It's in.
03:44It's a hat-trick for Cole.
03:45Although the replay evidence may suggest the defender at the last touch.
03:51And Andy Cole has got the ball.
03:53He doesn't care.
03:59The new siding.
04:01The new hero.
04:03Delivers his first hat-trick.
04:04That's what they want to hear.
04:06That's what they want to hear.
04:21That's been picked off by Giggs.
04:23He's already got the defenders on the run.
04:28He's turned two of them.
04:29Giggs.
04:30Into the six-yard box.
04:32Oh, it's in.
04:34Mark Hughes.
04:36An absolute thumper.
04:37That full stretch.
04:39And the red machine of Old Trafford.
04:41He's just steamrolling all over poor Ipswich.
04:47The team who are second bottom on 23 points.
04:51Looking at a real hammering.
04:55We've not had ten minutes in the second half.
04:57And Hughes slams in United's fifth.
05:08Here's Konchalskis.
05:11Hughes gives it in back.
05:12They've just torn them apart.
05:14The defence is ragged.
05:16Here's Konchalskis.
05:17Cole comes to meet him.
05:19Cole!
05:19Oh, brilliant save by Forrest.
05:21Leclerc.
05:28Giggs inside them.
05:30In on Forrest.
05:32It's in the air.
05:33Hughes has won it.
05:34It's number six.
05:36And the importance of this result, really.
05:39Manchester United three points behind Blackburn
05:42at the start of play at the top of the Premiership.
05:45And their goal difference.
05:47Six goals worse.
05:48But they've pulled that back in one afternoon
05:51against Ipswich.
05:58It's 6-0.
06:00It's Mark Hughes' second.
06:02And the chase for the Premiership title
06:05is now well and truly joined with Blackburn.
06:08This is McClare.
06:15Pallister.
06:16They're teeing it up for Inns to hit.
06:18Well struck!
06:19And Forrest was absolutely at full stretch
06:22to prevent United's seventh.
06:27Inns was lurking in that position
06:29and Pallister just teed it up for him.
06:38And the distribution finds McClare.
06:42Here's Andy Cole.
06:49Into Hughes.
06:50Oh, inside the defence.
06:51McClare!
06:52Hughes has saved it.
06:53Cole!
06:56Cole gets his fourth.
06:58And United continue
07:00the rampant assault of poor Ipswich.
07:04And we're now looking at the best result
07:06in the Premiership this season.
07:09Aston Villa's 7-1 defeat of Wimbledon
07:11was the best before today.
07:14But this is 7-0 Manchester United.
07:16And Andy Cole, in one afternoon,
07:22has perhaps begun to make 7 million pounds
07:26look like a bargain
07:27if that truly is possible.
07:28Brian Giggs has placed the ball
07:37for Manchester United's corner.
07:39Three quarters of the match gone.
07:43Incredibly United already ahead by seven.
07:46Bruce wins it.
07:49Hughes is there!
07:51It came out off the underside of the bar.
07:54And referee Graham Pohl shook his head.
07:56He was well-positioned to decide
07:58that it hadn't crossed the line.
08:03Another thumper from Hughes
08:05that would have brought his hat-trick.
08:06It's been an afternoon of desperate defending
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