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“I do like to go out and I am friends with some of the City players. Maybe if we win I’ll ask them to pay for my ­dinner!’’

~ Morten Gamst ­Pedersen

Pedersen got a sample of how Antonio Valencia‘s strike would taste like last night and the shot knocked the living day lights out of him (figuratively speaking).

It must have felt like receiving a knock on his head with a hammer from Thor – the Norse god. You could actually see chickens circling round his dizzied head (again figuratively speaking) as he lay on the ground waiting for medical attention.

Antonio Valencia – last night’s man of the match – had a superb game against Blackburn Rovers. He scored and assisted Ashley Young to take Man Utd five points clear of their nearest title rivals Man City.

Antonio is now a Centurion: He completed 100 games for the Manchester club yesterday.

Speaking of Roman and Greek mythology, if Antonio is Perseus – son of Zeus – then Robinson is the kraken, who experienced the full wrath of this demi-god.

His shot towards the goal was struck with such ferocity that it sounded like a thunder bolt that zapped Robinson who was guarding the goal.

Soon after the first goal, Ashley Young’s scored a brilliant second that once again blanked Robinson’s face like a deer caught in the headlights. The move was completed in 37 passes before ending up in goal.

Moving on to the ever-ginger Paul Scholes, statisticians are measuring every step that the player gingerly takes since his ‘second coming’. Last night was no different.The web was flooded with more of Scholes stats. Sooner or later Scholes will be officially recognised as a synonym for stats across all the grammar schools.

David de Gea was extraordinary between the posts last night.

Dressed in spotless yellow, de Gea looked like Uma Thuram from the Kill Bill movies.

The clean shaved Spaniard kept his fourth consecutive clean-sheet in the league which isn’t exactly doing wonders to Andres Lindegaard’s recovery from injury at the moment.

Three out-of-this-world saves kept the Blackburn from scoring yesterday.

After some poor display of home support – most notably in the Ajax and Bilbao games – the fans made Ewood park reverberate with their voices reaching high decibel levels.

Sir Alex acknowledged the fantastic crowd support with a clenched fist celebration and praised them for their support after the match.

“The fans were fantastic, they were unbelievable,” Ferguson said after the final whistle. “They deserve the result tonight because they never stopped, they urged us on the whole way. They almost sucked that ball in.”

31 – Man Utd have taken 31 points from the 11 Premier League games Paul Scholes has featured in this season. Catalyst.

— Opta Sports (@OptaJoe) April 2, 2012