Scholes thrilled to reach century

Scholes settled a tense encounter with Wolves at Molineux 17 minutes from time, when he kept a cool head to beat Marcus Hahnemann after Jody Craddock's clearance had fallen nicely for the veteran midfielder."I'm very pleased with that," the 35-year-old said on ESPN after the match. "To score goals is what you need to do to win games"Thankfully tonight it's fallen to me and I've managed to put it in."It was a difficult game. It was a tough pitch and a tough team to play against."The victory takes United back to the top of the table, two points above Chelsea, who have a game in hand.Scholes admits it will be an extra boost ahead of the visit of AC Milan in the second leg of the Champions League next week.He added: "A 1-0 win is exactly what you need at this stage of the season so we're happy with that."I think it's probably a good time to go top. It gives us confidence going into Wednesday as well."United's failure to wrap up the match almost proved costly as Sam Vokes missed a glorious stoppage-time chance to level, blazing over from six yards despite being completely unrked.And Rio Ferdinand, who returned from a back injury on Saturday, admits it was something of a let-off for his side."I thought it was offside but Scholesy told me he thinks he played him on," he said. "Fortunately we got away with it."But overall we deserved our win, we created chances and we could have maybe scored a couple more."Today under the conditions and circumstances I thought we played some good stuff, and Scholesy scored the all-important goal."Wolves boss Mick McCarthy thought his side were well worth a point after seeing them lose 1-0 to Manchester United.The defeat leaves Wolves above the drop zone on goal difference alone, having played a game more than Hull.McCarthy told ESPN: "We have played well but we've got nothing out of it. And it's getting harder and harder to talk about it."The only thing we can do is maintain that standard and our belief, and our luck will change."We'll get a break. There's plenty of games to play."So maintain our belief and, with those performances, I think we'll be okay."McCarthy knows his side shot themselves in the foot somewhat and that they cannot afford to keep doing that if they are to remain in the top flight.He added: "Sam would expect to score that. It doesn't matter how long you've been on the pitch."At one end there's a mistake and at the other it's a miss."A point would have been fantastic and we had the opportunity to get the equaliser but that's the story of our season."We've only scored 21 goals, not enough."No chance are we ever going to give up - while we've got breath in our bodies, we'll be scrapping. I firmly believe our luck will change and the only way it will change is by playing like that."

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