Fergie: Rooney can hit target

FOR several weeks now, Alex Ferguson has used the 42 goal-mark as a carrot for Wayne Rooney to strive for but yesterday he admitted that the striker really could match Cristiano Ronaldo’s haul of two years ago.

Rooney scored twice in the comprehensive defeat of Fulham to take his tally to 32 for the season and Ferguson feels that the remaining games in the Premier League and Champions League offer his forward the chance to beat the Portuguese’s tally.

He said: “I said a while ago it’s impossible for a player to get 42 in the present day but he’s on 32, what can I say? It’s a challenge for him, he is capable of scoring in the next eight league games and possibly five European games so he’s got 13 games possibly and you never know.