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LONDON (AP) -Manchester United finally found its goalscoring touch Saturday with a 4-0 win over Wigan that lifted it top of the Premier League for the first time this season.
Cristiano Ronaldo got two goals and Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez also scored to give United 20 points - one more than Arsenal, which hosts Sunderland on Sunday.
Aston Villa beat West Ham 1-0 in Saturday's other Premier League match.
United scored all its goals after the interval.
"The second-half performance was absolutely superb. We speeded the game up, and the flow was much better," Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said. "There was excellent interplay between the strikers, and it seems to be coming together."
It was the first time this season that United has scored more than two goals in any competition. United's 1-0 victory Tuesday over AS Roma in the Champions League was its sixth single-goal victory in eight matches this season.
Ronaldo scored in the 60th and 76th minutes. Ryan Giggs sent the ball into the box and, after Wigan goalkeeper Chris Kirkland pushed away his deflected shot, Ronaldo headed in at close range for his first goal.
Rooney crossed for Ronaldo to score his second goal and added the third for United with a 82nd-minute header.
Tevez had put United in the lead in the 54th, evading two Wigan defenders and dribbling around the approaching Kirkland to score.
On Sunday, it's: Arsenal vs. Sunderland; Reading vs. Derby; Liverpool vs. Tottenham; Bolton vs. Chelsea; Newcastle vs. Everton; Manchester City vs. Middlesbrough; Blackburn vs. Birmingham; and Fulham vs. Portsmouth.
It was a bad day for United injury-wise, with defenders Nemanja Vidic and John O'Shea taken off in the first half, and striker Louis Saha hurt in the warmup.
"Considering all the things that happened I think we've done fantastically well," Ferguson said. "Vidic has been taken to hospital with concussion, O'Shea has a dead (bruised) leg and Louis felt his knee in the warm-up. You can't risk that."
Vidic hurt his head in an aerial collision with Wigan defender Marcus Bent in the second minute and needed treatment.
