Sir Alex Ferguson praised the partnership of Wayne Rooney and Javier Hernandez after watching his Manchester United side beat Marseille in the Champions League.
Hernandez scored both goals at Old Trafford on Tuesday as United defeated the Ligue 1 team 2-1 to go through to the quarter-finals by the same score on aggregate. Rooney also starred with one of his better showings of the season, so the decision to leave Dimitar Berbatov on the bench again was rewarded.
And Ferguson has been happy with the way Rooney and Hernandez have been combining, telling Sky Sports of their double act after the game. "It's been developing well.
"Where Wayne has been playing in the past couple of games he is a real threat. He has such power and speed and Hernandez is unbelievable with his movement.
"The boy has goals in him."
Wes Brown’s own goal meant there were some late nerves for Ferguson, who also lost defenders John O’Shea and Rafael Da Silva to hamstring injuries.
On a tense end to the night, the Scot added: "It was nervy because so many players came off with injuries.
"It shifted the balance of team. I would have rather brought on Darron Gibson because the problem tonight was always going to be height and it caused us problems."
Captain Nemanja Vidic missed the game with a calf knock and Ferguson was non-committal on whether or not the Serbian would be available for the weekend Premier League game at home to Bolton Wanderers.
"We'll have to wait and see," he added. "Jonny Evans started training this week so hopefully he will be back."
Meanwhile, Rooney, who set up the opener, is also happy with how he has been playing with the man dubbed ‘Chicharito’. He said of Hernandez: “He's got great movement so I'm playing the position that I did when I started playing professionally. I'm enjoying it and thankfully he's a finisher.
"It's not often forwards get the chance to be on ball and enjoy playing. I enjoyed tonight.
"Our gameplan was to attack them first half and to get a goal or two up. We managed to get one and we held on.
"We were unfortunate to concede the goal.
"We are delighted to be through to the quarter-finals. It was a difficult game, we knew they were a physical team with a lot of power - we just deserved it
in the end.
“If you want to win the tournament you need to play and beat anyone. Whoever we get next we'll be confident we can beat them."
Marseille boss Didier Deschamps rued wasted first half chances for Andre-Pierre Gignac and Souleymane Diawara, saying the outcome might have been different had one or both of those gone in.
"My team have young players but after they have done well, and we had good opportunities, we don't score,” said the former France midfielder.
"Then when it was 0-2 it was more complicated for us.
"The players felt it was possible (to win) because Manchester was not fit physically. A lot of their players missed this game through injury - it was not the best team of Manchester.
"We tried but it was not enough for us today."