Confident Evra targets top spot

PATRICE EVRA claims Manchester United can make their rivals pay for their slip-ups and are on course to take over as the Barclays Premier League’s outright leaders.

Evra scored his first goal since April 2007 as United saw off nine-man Wigan with, in the words of Alex Ferguson “a competent performance, but no more”.

That was all United needed however, given the incompetence shown by Chelsea and Arsenal, and only goal difference is now keeping Ferguson’s men from being top of the pile.