Rooney Touch of Pure Genius Is All Too Much for Pompey ; Redknapp's Men Are Undone by Two Goals From Wayne the Wonder-Sub

Mail on Sunday › January 28, 2007

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WAYNE ROONEY revived memories of Eric Cantona as he made sure justice was done at Old Trafford.

United felt cheated after Pedro Mendes had cleared a Nemanja Vidic header from behind the line - ironically a role reversal of the Portuguese midfielder's famous goal that never was at Old Trafford - and Henrik Larsson had a second-half strike wrongly ruled out for offside.

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Rooney Touch of Pure Genius Is All Too Much for Pompey ; Redknapp's Men Are Undone by Two Goals From Wayne the Wonder-Sub

But Rooney showed further signs of taking on Cantona's old mantle of match-winning talisman and booked a fifth-round place with two goals after coming on as a substitute on the hour.

After 77 minutes, Larsson cleverly released Ryan Giggs ...

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