Goals by: Welbeck 5, Nani 28, Giggs 43, Rooney 88, Berbatov 90+0
Sir Alex Ferguson's team is the only one in the country yet to taste defeat on their domestic travels and a blemish was never likely here, from the moment that Danny Welbeck enjoyed the first offer of hospitality from the Fulham defence. Martin Jol, the home manager, wore a thunderous expression as United made the game safe by half-time. Nani scored the second and made two more while Ryan Giggs embellished yet another personal legend by contributing his first league goal of the season. He has now scored in all 20 Premier League campaigns.
Fulham were better in the second half, although it would have been remarkable if they had been any worse, but United finished in style, with Wayne Rooney scoring with a deliciously swerving shot from 25 yards. He was trumped, though, for the evening's finest goal by the substitute Dimitar Berbatov, who guided Antonio Valencia's low cross into the far corner with a backheel of sumptuous execution. Never mind Giggs. It was his first league goal of the season.
When things click for Berbatov, it is easy to presume that simply everything must have gone right for United. Not quite. There was concern for Phil Jones, who started at right-back but left the fray early with a suspected cheekbone fracture, having caught a nasty-looking elbow from Clint Dempsey in a second-minute aerial challenge.
Ferguson made no comment on the Suárez-Evra case. "We've said nothing all along," he said. "It's in the hands of the FA and that's how it's going to stay." He was happier to salute "one of our best performances of the season".
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