' 52 Van Nistelrooy
' 59 Scholes

Newcastle's first home game of the season was a one to forget as Manchester United came from one down to win 2-1 in a highly charged game with plenty of incidents.

Newcastle started brightest, with a half-hearted penalty shout when it appeared that Shola Ameobi was pulled down by Rio Ferdinand. The decision was waved away by Uriah Rennie.

Manchester United then went close, with a point-blank save from keeper Shay Given from a Ryan Giggs corner.

Andy O'Brien then appeared to pull down Ryan Giggs in a tackle from behind in a goal scoring opportunity that would of seen O'Brien sent for an early bath, and Newcastle down to ten men. With Giggs irate, it was Sir Alex Ferguson who was sent off.....being sent from the touchline after giving fourth official Jeff Winter some obscenities and appearing to kick a ball away, much to the delight of the Newcastle United fans.

On 26 minutes seen a free kick for Newcastle after a handball by Paul Scholes. The free kick curled in by Robert, seen Alan Shearer convert a perfect header past Manchester United keeper Tim Howard.

Newcastle kept the 1-0 lead until half-time, but Manchester United came out a stronger team, with Ruud Van Nistelrooy missing the target with a one-on-one with keeper Shay Given in the first five minutes, then converting a few minutes later ofter woeful defending by Newcastle.

7 minutes later came Manchester United's second goal, after more woeful defending that seen an unmarked Scholes chest in the ball into an open-goal on 59 minutes.

With Manchester United holding onto a 2-1 lead, the 72nd minute seen Sir Bobby make a triple substitution, bringing on 3 attacking players, youngster Michael Chopra, Hugo Viana and Jermaine Jenas, but a late equaliser wasnt the case.

With Manchester United winding down the clock by keeping possesion, the final whistle blew after 2 minutes of injury time with Newcastle losing their first home game of the season.

Sir Bobby said:

"Remember in this game last year we were 4-1 down at that stage, so that was an improvement. We had controlled the play and I felt we edged it.

"But we knew what they would be like in the second half, we said that at half time. because they were a goal down and would have been angry.

"They have class players, and they played the start of the second half with a high tempo and have caught us with two quick goals.

"Costly mistakes have cost us the match. van Nistelrooy turned into space that you could have got a double decker bus into for the first goal, and then Scholes has been left to run from midfield for the second goal.

"Young Chopra could have made himself a hero at the end when Alan playted him in, but perhaps he just lacked that bit of cleverness to beat the keeper and he allowed him to make a save."

"Andy has made the tackle from behind, he's the last man and maybe he's been a bit lucky. The referee was behind the play and the linesman hasn't really helped, but that's the way it goes."

"Sometimes those decisions go for you, sometimes they don't. But look at the incident in the first five minutes when Shola went through with Rio Ferdinand. They have jostled for the ball and in my opinion Ferdinand has never touched the ball, but that's how it goes."