Scholes and Giggs highlight a super show for United
"Cole the Provider" might not have the snappy eyecatching marketing ring of "Cole the Goal" but those who fashion the £7m man's off-field image needn't become overly concerned, Andy Cole will soon live up to his commercial label again.
The striker has only one goal to his name this season but was an influential helping hand in three of United's Stamford Bridge goals.
Fergie's Verdict
"We played our best football of the season in the first half. We led 2-0 at half-time and it really should have been more. We should have had the game wrapped up.
We almost suffered when Sparky scored. But it was a good result. We got a bit careless in the second half. Once you lose the momentum of your passing then your game goes and we lost it for 20 minutes of the second half.
But we defended well. It was Gary Pallister's best game of the season. It has been a bit of a problem this season losing goals uncharacteristically and if we get that part right we'll have a real chance.
Half time can be a problem and we should have had the game finished. But we never seem to kill teams off. 2-0 is a difficult scoreline because if you lose one you always feel as though you are going to lose two.
Chelsea went gung-ho after they scored the goal and left people up the pitch. It allowed us to get off them. Ryan scored a really good goal to finish it for us.
I was really pleased with the result and in the team's first half performance when they were great, excellent.
First half Eric Cantona was very, very good but in the second half he tired as one or two did. He tired in the last 25 minutes understandably.
We took Scholes off so we could defend to make sure we weren't going to lose it. It would have been a tragedy to lose it after playing so well. I risked that at 2-1 for too long because they were getting out a bit down the sides.
