Nani Happy To Get Off Mark

Nani wants to keep up the good work after scoring his first club goal of the season in Manchester United's 5-0 thumping of Bayer Leverkusen.

The Portugal international marked his return to the side with a superbly-taken strike after being played through by Ryan Giggs with a couple of minutes remaining at BayArena.

Although he has netted for his country in their World Cup qualifying campaign, this was Nani's first United strike since netting against Reading in the FA Cup last February. The outing in Germany was also his first appearance in the Champions League since the exit to Real Madrid last term, when he received an extremely harsh red card.

"It was a great goal and I'm happy," Nani enthused to MUTV. "But the most important thing was the result. We want to continue like that.

"Scoring five goals away from home is not easy against a German team. I think we have to be happy with what we have done tonight and keep up the good work."

The Reds' tactics worked to perfection against Leverkusen and a clean sheet was another huge plus point from the evening.

"We started very well," added Nani. "First of all, we knew they would attack a lot at the beginning of the game. They started to try to attack and score early but we defended very well and the whole team was compact.

"We tried to exploit the counter-attack, had opportunities and took them and that's why we scored five goals."