Classy Rio shines as Wolves outfoxed

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Ferdinand was pressed into emergency service alongside Wayne Rooney in the Red Devils' engine room after Alex Ferguson decided Alan Smith was not fit enough to start United's comfortable 3-0 FA Cup triumph.

Ince was suitably impressed by the former West Ham defender's efforts in the fourth-round tie and has now called on Eriksson, who was at Molineux for the one-sided encounter, to solve the dilemma over which two to play in central defence from Ferdinand, John Terry and Sol Campbell by installing the United man as his midfield enforcer.