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Article by Mark
Graham, Stats Nerd
Manchester United 4 v 0 Aston Villa,
Old Trafford,
Manchester,
17.15pm, Saturday 29th March
2008.
Goals:
Manchester United: Ronaldo (17), Tevez (33), Rooney (53),
(70) - Aston Villa -
n/a.
Attendance: 75,932
Manchester United destroyed Aston Villa with arguably
their best performance so far this season taking a further
step toward retaining the Premiership Title. Both Chelsea
& more so Arsenal struggled to fend off efforts from
Middlesbrough & Bolton respectively but did manage
eventually making it as you were with all three of the
title hopefuls obtaining victories.
Villa took first blood in the created chances stakes after
Ashley Young struck a shot but United replied with a
Rooney shot which Stiliyan Petrov cleared.
Giggs then sent Tevez through but Mellberg cleared the
danger for Villa as the pressure was mounting for the
visitors.
Carrick found
Ronaldo who forced goalkeeper Scott Carson to save before
Wes Brown headed over the bar.
United then took the lead with who else but Ronaldo as the
phenom struck his 26th Premiership goal of the season.
With Ryan Giggs winning a corner for United, the Welshman
whipped in a quite appetizing ball which Gareth Barry
jumped to header & missed, an unexpecting Bouma saw the
ball strike his arm and fall into the path of Ronaldo who flicked
the ball nutmegging Martin Laursen leaving the United
forward to slowly watch his effort beat Carson.
United's 2nd goal came from a sweeping move started &
finished by Carlos Tevez as Ronaldo gifted the Argie a
neat header at the far post from a first class cross which
the Apache met with power.
Villa already 2-0 down then suffered a set back as John
Carew was replaced by Maloney due to a groin injury
United were dominating on all fronts with Carrick &
Scholes running the midfield areas with devastating ease,
Tevez then supplied Rooney with a golden chance but the
White Pele still unlucky in front of goal shot narrowly
wide.
John Carew's replacement, Maloney then saw a marvellous
chance wasted as both Ferdinand & Vidic made a error of
judgement from a long high ball, The former Celtic man
raced yards clear of United's defenders only to miss by
inches giving United a slice of luck.
With goals hard
to come by for Rooney, Ronaldo who seemed in this game to
touch anything & it turn into magic unbelievably assisted
Rooney with a backheel flick like something out of Roy of
the Rovers comic book as Rooney dummied Carson & rounded
the exposed Aston Villa keeper for 3-0.
Villa ruing the
earlier Maloney miss then crept back into the game very
briefly as
Kuszczak saved Maloney's curler.
SAF then flexed his mighty bench power as Owen Hargreaves, Anderson and John O'Shea
came on for Evra, Carrick and Ferdinand.
With immediate impact, Owen Hargreaves at right full back
saw action down the flank as he crossed with Beckham like
precision only for Tevez to somehow miss the header which
must have been easier the score than miss.
Already three
up, United were relentless in their pursuit and on other
day could certainly have had 8 goals or more as more
chances were created with Rooney striking a post.
Rooney then scored to make it 4-0 with 20 mins to go
thanks once again to Ronaldo who turned in the box feeding
Rooney's run, before his finish passed Carson.
Wayne Rooney
scored again soon after only to have his goal disallowed &
hat trick cancelled for offside & then for the final five
minutes of the match United were forced to play with ten
men as United lost Ryan Giggs to injury.
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