Following Rooney’s impressive performance on Tuesday night, Manchester United boss, Alex Ferguson has praised the striker for his two goals contributions which made the English Champions to claim their first victory against AC Milan at San Siro.

Rooney scored two goals in the second half in the 3-1 victory against the Italian club and Ferguson describes him as one of the best players in the world.

“ His second-half performance tonight carried on the form Wayne has been showing recently,” Ferguson was quoted in Opera Sports.

He is in absolutely devastating form. They could not handle him in the second half. I thought he was marvelous.”

The veteran coach also said that he has seen some improvements in the striker especially for the last two months.

Ferguson said: “ There has been improvement in his game over the last two months.”

“ Confidence has a lot to do with that but it is also his ability as a player.

“As I have said about him on a number of occasions what he has to do is improve his goal scoring. That is what he is doing now.

“ When you look at the way he is performing at the moment he must be regarded almost those players at the highest level.”

Ferguson also admitted that they had bad start when they saw Ronaldinho breaking the deadlock in just three minutes into the first time to put the Italian club into command.

“ It was a bad start and it gave them encouragement,” Ferguson admitted.

“ It was a bad period for us. We could have been two or three goals down. We were desperate to hang on and thankfully we got ourselves back into the game.

Ronney registered his 25 goals of the season in all competitions and his boss believes he will reach the much-talked 30 goals.