Manchester United vs Bolton 2-1 Goal Highlights 19-03-2008

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Goals: Ronaldo 9', 19'.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice to give Manchester United a 2-0 victory over Bolton and a three-point lead atop the Premier League.

In Wednesday’s other game, Robbie Keane equalized 2 minutes from the end and Tottenham tied Chelsea 4-4 to stop the Blues drawing level with second-place Arsenal.

With Manchester United-Liverpool and Chelsea-Arsenal to come on Sunday, the Premier League title race is heating up as the teams go into their final eight games.

United has 70 points from 30 games, Arsenal 67 and Chelsea 65. Fourth-place Liverpool appears to be out of contention with 59.

Against a Bolton side which has won only once and now lost 11 times on the road, United cruised into a 2-0 lead inside the first 19 minutes at Old Trafford, where Alex Ferguson’s team has two more home games in a row.

Captain for the game, Ronaldo gave United the lead in the 9th minute.

Bolton failed to clear a corner and the ball dropped to the winger who fired it into the roof of the net to match George Best’s club record for a winger of 32 goals.

Back from suspension after his red card against Portsmouth in the FA Cup loss, goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak blocked a close range shot from Kevin Davies.

A minute later it was 2-0, however, when Bolton needlessly gave away a free kick and Ronaldo powered a dipping 30-meter shot that flew inside the post. That made it 24 league goals in 24 starts for Ronaldo and the Portuguese star had taken Best’s mark.

MU: Kuszczak, Hargreaves, Pique, Vidic (Brown, 58'), O'Shea, Ronaldo, Fletcher, Anderson (Scholes, 70'), Nani, Saha (Rooney, 70'), Tevez.

Bolton: Al Habsi, Steinsson, Meite (Hunt, 46'), Andrew O'Brien, Gardner, Diouf, McCann, Guthrie (Giannakopoulos, 82'), Joey O'Brien, Taylor, Davies.