Forty-eight hours after the double winners scored six against West Bromwich Albion, the hosts put another newly-promoted team to the sword at Old Trafford with a 3-0 win over Newcastle United.
Dimitar Berbatov, Darren Fletcher and Ryan Giggs, who extended his run of scoring in every Premier League season, found the net for Ferguson's men, who were never seriously threatened once Andy Carroll had failed to convert the visitors' best chance.
And already, the top two in the bookmakers' lists have made their intentions clear.
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"We will be up there again but Chelsea are the team to beat and we are focused on that," said Ferguson.
"We are pleased to have won 3-0 tonight but goals could come into it.
"Chelsea won it by a landslide last season and we are conscious of that and there are goals in our team as well."
United will continue to score as long as Paul Scholes continues in his current vein of good form.
Man-of-the-match in last week's Community Shield win over Chelsea, Scholes followed up with a similarly impressive display.
The 35-year-old supplied the passes that ended with Berbatov driving home his second goal of an impressive start to the campaign and the chip that Giggs brilliantly volleyed home in the latter stages.
"We sometimes beat ourselves up about standards," said Ferguson. "There is still a lot of good in the game and Paul Scholes produced some of it tonight.
"You do not lose what he has got. He has a marvellous range of passing and his vision is still good. And anyone who gets to that age and retains that appetite is blessed with something special."
- Sir Alex Ferguson
