Darren Fletcher was the one to save Manchester United once again from dropping points after his only goal secured for United their first win against Portsmouth yesterday. The fans watched the return of Carlos Tevez and Anderson in the squad. However the problem with scoring goals to be solved as Rooney could not score again.

The first real threat came from Portsmouth’s Bouba Diop when he surprised Van der Sar with a long shot just went wide of Edwin van der Sar’s right hand post. Then United had a chance when Wes Brown crossed the ball from the right side to Wayne Rooney who stroked the ball but it was saved with no difficulty by David James in the centre of his goal.

United begun to retain control of the game with style Portsmouth forced two chances with Evra needing to get back and put Crouch off his shot after Defoe made the first opening, helped by a mis-kick from Anderson.

On the 32 minutes, Fletcher scored the first goal when Evra crossed the ball from left side after taking two players, Fletcher touched the ball and Pompey’s defender Distin got the final touch into his own goal to give United the lead.

Pompey tried to equalize but their efforts were collapsed as Rio Ferdinand, who was the captain, and Vidic were in their top forms.

After the game, Sir Alex was delighted to win the first game in the premier league which he hopes it can help the team in next games against Liverpool after the UEFA super cup in Monaco.

“I think we showed we have got good quality.

Also he was concerned about the possibility of adding new striker to the squad before the end of the transfer window on the 31^st of August.

“There is only a week to go and you start to concern yourself a little bit,” Ferguson told Sky Sports .

“We would like to add obviously, but we just have to wait and see what happens.”

Tomorrow, Monday 25^th of August, Manchester United will visit Fratton Park to play against Portsmouth in the premier league. United already played twice against Pompey and they won both games (A friendly game in Nigeria and community shield). Sir Alex Ferguson is looking to win this game and get the first win for United this season after a home draw against Newcastle last week.

The game will see the return of Carlos Tevez  after a family bereavement which kept him out of the opening day draw with Newcastle, while Nemanja Vidic is expected to be fit despite not training this morning and Portuguese international Nani completes a three-game ban. The squad also will be boosted with Anderson who returned back from China after Olympic duty with Brazil national team but the decision will be in Sir Alex hand wither to rush his come back or not after the number of injured players increased with Michael Carrick and Ryan Giggs joining the list.

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Congratulations to all United’s fans around the world. Our team claims the community shield few minutes ago after the match hero Van der Sar could save one shoot and the other two were missed. The game end 3-1 on penalties following a goalless draw. The game in general was average. Carlos Tevez and Luis Nani did very well in today game as United were missing their main squad players like Rooney and Ronaldo. The first threat came after 26 minutes from Ryan Giggs. His shoot was denied by David James after a throw pass from John O’Shea.

5 minutes before the end of the first half, Nani showed his class with a nice aerial control of the ball from the middle of Pompey half. He flicked the ball over both Sol Campbell, then James only for Distin to save the day for Portsmouth by clearing the ball over the bar. Read the full story