Edwin van der Sar kept his 14th successive league clean sheet in the 3-0 win over Fulham and can break the European record for minutes without conceding a goal against Blackburn this weekend.
Some reports had suggested the Dutchman would set a new mark after an hour of Wednesday's game. In fact, he'll have to keep Rovers at bay for 89 minutes at Old Trafford on Saturday to eclipse Club Brugge stopper Dany Verlinden's record of 1,390 minutes, set in 1990.
Van der Sar barely had a save to make against Roy Hodgson's side, thanks in part to another commanding performance from Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic in front of him.
That said, the United keeper breathed a sigh of relief when Fulham striker Bobby Zamora's second-half top-poke rolled inches wide of his post.
Sir Alex Ferguson said of the latest shut-out on MUTV: "It’s really amazing. Tonight it was down to the performance of Ferdinand and Vidic. They were really solid and determined and they were up against a bit of a handful in Zamora.
"He is a very strong, powerful and quick player who has two good feet, so they had a job to do and they did it well.
"He had a great header in the first half when he almost scored, he had a toe-poke in the second half just past the post so the game wasn’t without its threats to us. We’ve handled it okay."
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