00:00Hit it with his left instep and curl it beyond Schmeichel and inside rather than outside the post.
00:07A warning for Manchester United.
00:14Pallister.
00:17Give it away to Ball.
00:19That did look a little late for Kevin Ball, but here's Giggs.
00:24Round Melville. Oh, he's tried an extravagant finish.
00:33It seemed that, if anything, he was shaping for a driven shot, having worked the angle to his advantage.
00:38Instead, it was the eight iron.
00:44Borde.
00:46Driven for Kelly.
00:49Good use of the chest.
00:51Hall.
00:52Ray.
00:54Kelly.
00:55And here's Gareth Hall, of all people.
00:57And Alex Ray hit his own man, Russell.
01:05Now, I'm not sure that it wasn't on target, that shot.
01:09It was a neat piece of interplay by Sunderland.
01:16Philip Neville.
01:18Giggs.
01:20Away from Hall.
01:23And they're scored.
01:25It's got a save.
01:26Sonshire.
01:27One-nil.
01:33Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scores his eighth goal for Manchester United.
01:39The man they like to call the baby-faced assassin.
01:42Sonshire with a really good effort.
01:43Fine block by PĂ©rez, who was helpless, as Solskjaer scored.
01:49He hates the nickname, but you can see why he's got it.
01:56Ford.
01:57And here's Solskjaer again.
01:59Good save by PĂ©rez, who saw it late.
02:04Solskjaer seems to have the taste, all of a sudden.
02:10And so have Manchester United, but...
02:12Cantona!
02:13Oh, his first touch was lacking.
02:17That's the story of Eric Cantona's form at this stage of the season.
02:21That touch for which he's famed has sadly deserted him.
02:29It's going to be Neville.
02:33Giggs.
02:35Ord.
02:37Ball giving it to Scholes.
02:40And here's Botts.
02:41Round the keeper.
02:42Down he goes, it's a penalty.
02:47Now, will the referee deem as well that Lionel PĂ©rez was the last man?
02:53He's reaching for his book, and what is the colour of the card going to be?
02:57There's the challenge.
02:59And it's all down to the interpretation that Paul Durkin places on that passage of play.
03:05I think PĂ©rez fears the worst.
03:08It's yellow.
03:13And it could so easily have been red.
03:21So it's one Frenchman who used to play for Nîmes against another.
03:26Cantona was a team-mate of PĂ©rez.
03:30Now they are opponents.
03:33And that is Cantona's first premiership goal in more than three months.
03:39And listen to the roar that he gets from the Old Trafford faithful.
03:43You can sense their relief as well.
03:58Here's Ray with the free kick.
04:02Headed from Ord.
04:04And Schmeichel's throw could put Solskjaer in.
04:07Kubitschki's missed the challenge.
04:08And Solskjaer is all on his own.
04:13Isn't that a cool finish?
04:19He must have had a surge of adrenaline pulsing through his body
04:23when Kubitschki missed the tackle.
04:25And he still had 40 yards to run.
04:28But nothing was going to faze him.
04:30And that is why Alex Ferguson rates him so very highly.
04:34Three now.
04:38Kubitschki.
04:41Gray.
04:42Irwin sliding in from behind.
04:43And he got the ball.
04:44Poborski.
04:45His first touch.
04:46Cantona pulling away in the middle.
04:48Giggs arriving.
04:50And there's Giggs who missed his kick.
04:53And Nicky Buck should have done so much better.
04:57He's already won a penalty.
04:59But really he should have had what for him would have been a rare goal.
05:07But.
05:09Look there.
05:11Giggs in a modicum of space.
05:13And here's Philip Neville.
05:14This is good play by United.
05:16Behind by Melville.
05:26Giggs to take the corner.
05:29Five red shirts to aim for.
05:31But.
05:31Yes.
05:35Nicky Buck.
05:37With goal number four.
05:42And he can't have scored too many before with a leaping header like that.
05:45And he can't have scored too many before with a leaping header like that.
05:48And Nicky Buck.
05:55Peter Reid is facing up to Sunderland's worst defeat of the season.
06:02Scholes.
06:05Maclaire's made the run from midfield.
06:07And Sunderland haven't picked him up successfully.
06:10Poborski.
06:11Cantona.
06:12And Thornley both in the penalty area.
06:14It's a United throw.
06:19Poborski with it.
06:21Irwin.
06:22Three in the box this time.
06:24And a save by Perez from Nicky Butt.
06:28Cantona and Butt both slid in for that.
06:31And Perez almost inadvertently seemed to stick out of boot and divert it to safety.
06:38Russell.
06:40Bridges outside him.
06:42And Stewart.
06:44And still Sunderland can't find a way through.
06:49Bridges delivered the perfect cross from the left-hand side.
06:53Stewart was in the ideal position but couldn't guide it beyond Schmeichel.
07:05Cantona.
07:09That's a great space and then we've passed a couple of defenders.
07:12Maclaire.
07:13Here's Cantona.
07:15He's done it.
07:18That is magnificent by Cantona.
07:23And after all his problems and his lack of form and the criticism that's come his way, there is the
07:30perfect riposte.
07:38He's already gone round and passed two defenders.
07:41Oh, goodness.
07:42Goal score.
07:43Maclaire was the ideal foil.
07:45But look at that for a chip.
08:00No, it's impossible to describe it.
08:04Words are beyond that.
08:06And then you came off.
08:07You must have been hoping to get your first United hat-trick, were you at that stage?
08:11No, I wasn't thinking about that.
08:12It's just great to have a rest.
08:14It's lots of games during Christmas.
08:17So the manager told me a nice time to get a rest.
08:21It's just great to have a rest.
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