Two minutes of stoppage time will be added by the referee

United have produced a thoroughly professional performance here tonight after never finding top gear but doing just enough to pick up their first win of this year's Champions League

Van der Sar is alert to the danger as he sprints off his line to claim a through ball looking to play in Saganowski

United are pressing for a fourth as they continue to break with pace. Huge gaps are now appearing in the home side's defence

Ronaldo latches onto a peach of a pass from the outside of Berbatov's boot but attempts to go around the keeper and guides his early shot marginally wide of the upright

Nani wastes a glorious chance for a fourth as he over-hits a cross looking for Ronaldo after a swift break

The heads of the home players have finally dropped now but they've given their all tonight and had chances to worry the European champions early on

Risgard tries to bend a 30-yard shot beyond Edwin van der Sar but that's easy for the big keeper who plucks the ball out of the air

Tevez cuts inside from the left wing and lashes an unstoppable rising shot just inches wide of the target - that would have been some strike from 20 yards!!

Johansson sneaks in past a flat-footed Evra and meets a cross with a header which bounces wide. That was some poor defending from the French full-back

Tevez charges into the area but opts to square to Ronaldo rather than shoot and his effort is way off target. That was a golden chance for 3-0 from the Argentina striker

Ronaldo earns a yard of space and tests Zaza with a dipping cross-goal shot from 20 yards which the keeper is equal to

Nani looks up and finds Berbatov whose shot from 12 yards is blocked by some last-ditch defending

To Aalborg's credit they are refusing to give up hope but United could make them pay on the break

Curth can only lash a snatched shot wide of the mark under pressure from Vidic as the home side make a rare foray into United territory

Tevez plays a neat ball though legs to feed Giggs but he can only find the side-netting from a tight angle

United look comfortably in charge of this match now and the final scoreline depends on how adventurous they are in the final 25 minutes

Tevez bundles the ball into the net after the keeper can only tip Nani's lob into the air but the referee rules it out rightly for an inadvertent handball

Rooney goes to the ground in the centre circle and requires treatment on some sort of leg problem

Rafael is back on the field following treatment so Wes Brown returns to his watching brief from the bench

Ronaldo almost fires a 35-yard free-kick over the stand behind the goal. He looks disgusted with himself and rightly so!

Rafael is gingerly placed on a stretcher and his game could well be over as he looks to have taken a blow to the knee

Giggs looks to roll back the years as he toys with two defenders only to see his shot from just inside the area hit a third red and white shirt

This time Nani does his other trick of going for goal with an ambitious effort that hits the first defender and rebounds to safety

Nani looks up then inexplicably lofts a cross into no man's land - the Portuguese winger has been poor so far tonight

Marek Saganowski squares the ball and Jeppe Curth finds the roof of the net with a dipping side-foot shot from the edge of the penalty area

United are finishing the half firmly in the driving seat and they really should be more than just the one goal ahead at the break

Rafael looks up and spot the keeper off his line but his dipping 20-yard effort is tipped over by the back-pedalling Zaza

Rafael steals the ball and breaks at pace before feeding Ronaldo but Rooney has strayed offside and the flag goes up as he looks to convert a low cross from eight yards

Ronaldo gets to the byline and cuts the ball back to Rooney but he can't convert a difficult chance under pressure at the near post

Ronaldo looks for Berbatov with an early cross but it's too close to the keeper who claims ahead of the arriving striker

Ronaldo is at the centre of a spat as he plays on when an Aalborg player was down and the home players surround him - he drilled a low shot straight at the keeper

Ronaldo fires in a cross which Beauchamp nudges away from Nani who was shaping to flick the ball in

Aalborg are refusing to let their heads drop and this remains an end-to-end and thoroughly entertaining game

Martin Pedersen clatters into Ronaldo and is lucky to escape a caution as that was not his first offence of the evening

Ronaldo fires a thunderous 20-yard strike just inches over the crossbar with an effort that had the keeper beaten all ends up

Ferdinand comes to the rescue as he slides in to prevent Kasper Bogelund from taking a strike at goal after charging into the danger zone - that was quality defending from the United skipper

Rafael charges forward from right-back and, after getting a lucky deflection, draws a save from the keeper with a powerful dipping strike

The home fans have been buoyed by the start their side has made and the stadium is rocking despite the 10,500 capacity

Rooney goes for goal from 35 yards but his low strike clatters away to safety off the first defender

Scholes is being stretchered from the field after suffering some sort of twisting to his knee and Ryan Giggs is preparing to come on

Scholes requires attention after being caught by Thomas Augustinussen in the centre circle

This is a really open game as the home side have plenty of attacking endeavour about them and the scoreline could end up quite high

Aalborg break with promise and a Michael Beauchamp low cross goes untouched through the penalty area - teenage right-back Rafael was caught out of position and that won't please Sir Alex Ferguson

This is all United now and in truth they could quite easily be 2-0 up already. The Danish side look there for the taking

Nemanja Vidic flicks on a corner but Rio Ferdinand's back post volley is deflected behind by a combination of keeper and goalline defender

Berbatov misses a sitter as he volleys a clearance from the keeper which loops up off Ronaldo wide of the mark from 12 yards - that should have been the opening goal of the night

Nani cuts inside from the left flank but his low shot clatters away off the body of a defender

Aalborg BK are showing plenty of commitment in the opening exchanges and they certainly won't be overawed by the occasion

Karim Zaza comes racing out to clear a long ball over the top looking for the marauding run of Rooney