Javier can be a United great — Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson believes Javier Hernandez is on the right path to becoming a Manchester United great after he fired his side into the Carling Cup quarter–finals.

The 22–year–old Mexico striker scored a brilliant winner in the last minute of a nail–biting 3–2 victory over Wolves last night.

Hernandez scored both goals for United against Stoke City in the Premier League on Sunday and is fast becoming a new hero to a club traumatised by the Wayne Rooney saga.

Ferguson said: “They tend to build heroes quickly here, but he’s justifying the praise at the moment.

“He’s very professional, the first out on the training ground and the last one back in every day and he’s rightly getting a lot of praise for his goalscoring.”

Bebe, the relatively-unknown striker signed in the summer for £7.4million from Portuguese side Vitoria de Guimaraes, crowned a promising first start with the opening goal that owed much to fortune — and to assistant referee Darren Cann spotting it had crossed the line — before George Elokobi equalised.

Park Ji–Sung made it 2–1 to the home side, but Kevin Foley hauled Wolves level again until Hernandez’s late intervention.