Manchester United overcame a nightmare opening to their Champions League campaign and even had time to add some icing to the cake in a 5-2 win over Maccabi Haifa at Old Trafford.
Maccabi's fans danced in disbelief after only eight minutes when their team of novices took the lead.
But United stormed back to go in 2-1 at the interval and eventually win comfortably with striker Diego Forlan finally breaking his scoring duck for the club on his 27th appearance.
United's fans were stunned into silence after seven minutes when a crisp move saw Walid Badir's pass find Yaniv Katan unmarked on the right side of the box.
As United keeper Fabien Barthez came off his line, Katan coolly slotted the ball right-footed through the Frenchman's legs and into the net from ten yards.
But Maccabi's joy was short-lived when, three minutes later, Phil Neville's cross from the right was deftly nodded into the far corner of the net by Ryan Giggs from ten yards out.
United's second goal in the 35th minute was equally sublime.
Giggs found Ruud van Nistelrooy on the edge of the Maccabi box and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer timed his run to perfection as he peeled off the defenders to rifle home a shot with the outside of his right foot from eight yards.
Utd had killed off the game within eight minutes of the restart.
They made it 3-1 when Beckham's surging run down the right saw him pull the ball back into the centre from the by-line.
Solskjaer touched the ball on to the far side of the penalty area where Veron cracked a right-foot shot into the roof of the net from 12 yards only 22 seconds into the second half.
Seven minutes late, Veron turned provider when he picked out Van Nistelrooy near the penalty spot with a pin-point cross.
Van Nistelrooy cleverly controlled the ball on his chest before chipping a right-footed shot over keeper Dudo Awat.
Maccabi pulled the goal back five minutes from time when sub Rafi Cohen ran on to a throughball to fire home, the shot being only partially stopped by sub keeper Ricardo, who making his debut for the Red Devils.
But the last word went to Forlan two minutes later. Beckham was brought down by Eric Ejiofor in the Maccabi penalty area and substitute Forlan stepped up to drill his right-foot penalty into the bottom corner of the net