ETO'O TRUMPS MANCHESTER UNITED!

Samuel Eto’o bags a hat-trick as Chelsea thump Manchester United



Samuel Eto'o scored a hat-trick as Chelsea thrashed Manchester United. Picture: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images


Chelsea's Samuel Eto'o (right) scores their first goal of the game. Picture: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Samuel Eto’o scored a hat-trick as Chelsea cruised past Manchester United to pile the pressure onto David Moyes and the Glazer familyand secure Jose Mourinho’s 100th Premier League victory.

It was the first hat-trick scored against the Red Devils by a Blues player since Seamus O’Connell in the 1954/55 season - the west Londoners lost that game 6-5 but it mattered not as they lifted their first league title that year.

The Cameroon international opened the scoring with a deflected shot that David De Gea was unable to stop.

The striker doubled the lead when he bundled the ball home on 45 minutes to give the Red Devils a mountain to climb going into half-time.

Samuel Eto'o scores his second goal of the game against Manchester United. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)

Red Devils fans protested against the Glazer family calling on them to sell the club.

Eto’o completed his treble three minutes after the break when he tapped home the rebound after Gary Cahill’s header was saved.

Javier Hernandez pulled a goal back with 13 minutes left but it was only a consolation as the Blues enjoyed a thumping win.

The frustration got to Manchester United players and Nemanja Vidic was sent off for a horrible tackle on Eden Hazard, while Rafael should also have been sent off for a horror lunge on Gary Cahill.

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David Moyes has rubbished claims Manchester United are struggling because of the absence of Sir Alex Ferguson.

United stuttered to a 1-1 home draw against Southampton on Saturday to leave the reigning champions eight points adrift of Premier League leaders Arsenal and only four above the relegation zone.

Moyes was handpicked by Ferguson as his successor in the summer as the veteran manager called time on a 26-and-half-year reign at Old Trafford and his team have begun the the new campaign in lacklustre fashion with one win in four home league games.

Some critics have suggested visiting players now head to Old Trafford confident of upsetting the hosts, but Moyes said: "I think the fear factor is from the team on the pitch, that's always the case.

"The players are the thing because of their quality. Obviously Sir Alex has a great history and there is all his experience but the players will always be what matters on the pitch."

Despite the early wobbles for Moyes since moving from Everton, Ferguson has insisted that winning any trophy in his first season would be a creditable performance.

It took Ferguson nearly four years following his arrival at Old Trafford from Aberdeen to win his first silverware, with the 1990 FA Cup success giving him the breathing space he needed to set the club on the path to 13 English League titles and two Champions League triumphs.

"For David, winning a trophy would be a fantastic achievement," Ferguson told MUTV.

"No matter what it is - the League Cup, FA Cup, European Cup or Premier League. It is not easy winning a trophy in our league because you could say there are six teams fighting for the league."

MAN-UNITED'S FORTRESS IS CREAKING!

United have just three league wins from eight matches - and only one of those at home from four games. The fortress, if not crumbling, is creaking.

The more this goes on, the more David Moyes will have to continue answering questions about his predecessor with even Southampton manager, Mauricio Pocchetino, saying “it is not easy to be under the shadow of Sir Alex Ferguson” while strongly praising Moyes.

This always felt like a contest that would test credentials. Had United turned a corner in beating Sunderland and finding a new young hope in Adnan Januzaj, who provided a pre-match boost by signing a five-year contract? Were Southampton simply early flash-in-the-pan, high-pressing pretenders?

The answer to the first was no. Not yet anyway. The answer to the second was also, emphatically, no. As anguished as Moyes looked at the final whistle, knowing his tactics, and not least his substitutions in taking off Wayne Rooney for Chris Smalling while Javier Hernandez and Shinji Kagawa sat on the bench, would be questioned then Pochettino deserved praise.

The Argentine showed no emotion at Southampton’s late equaliser but he had stood by the touchline throughout this enthralling contest urging, coaxing, cajoling his team to remain committed to the high-tempo game that he is evangelical about. No one summed up that style more than Saints’ outstanding captain Adam Lallana, who got a final touch as Dejan Lovren stabbed the ball goalwards from a corner.

Jonny Evans and Smalling had gone missing and too many of United’s players failed to take responsibility. Chief among them was Marouane Fellaini, Moyes’s big summer signing and a lumbering disappointment, and Nani, who was awarded a five-year contract before the season started.

Januzaj was a shining exception - as was Rooney - while Robin van Persie can also be exempt and not just because he calmly stroked home United’s goal. But there was no hiding Moyes’s crestfallen demeanour. “We did not do well enough,” he admitted. “But we should have put the game to bed early on. There were pockets of play in which we were very good but it was a mixed performance. We have got to do better and make ourselves harder to score against.”

United are leaking goals with only three clean sheets this season and more concern over Nemanja Vidic’s absence, injured again, as Moyes juggles his resources ahead of the resumption of the Champions League campaign which might provide relief from their Premier League travails.