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Article by Mark Graham, Editor, Record Keeper & Official
Reporter @ MUFCINFO.COM
Manchester United stomped a mudhole in the ass of Chelsea on
Sunday afternoon crushing the small team near Fulham 3-0 at
Old Trafford, goals from Nemanja Vidic, Wayne Rooney &
Dimitar Berbatov all helped as United ran riot. In a
fiercely competitive match United lost Rio Ferdinand at the
start the England defender who was reported as fit to return
to the side was apparently the victim of more back spasms
and will under go scans in the coming week.
Both manager sprang surprises in their line ups as SAF opted
to play Ryan Giggs in a central role preferring him to
Michael Carrick & Luiz Felipe Scolari benched the
Premierships leading scorer Nicholas Anelka in favor of the
Roller-skate wearing Didier Drogba.
The 1st half was
a chess game with each side feeling each other out and after
booking Frank Lampard after 3 minutes referee Howard Webb
stamped his authority early potentially giving himself a
problem as the game wore on.
United were awarded a free kick after Ashley Cole had
adjudged to have handballed a Ronaldo cross & as with the
Reds beginning to control possession had their 1st shot on
target as a curling Ryan Giggs free-kick saw Cech forced
deflect the ball to safety in a congested penalty area, from
the same spell of pressure Joe Cole the fouled Rooney
outside the box & from the resulting free kick Ronaldo
stepped up & saw his deflected effort go wide for a United
corner.
Chelsea then
enjoyed a small patch of possession culminating in a blocked
Lampard in swinging free kick & half shots from outside the
box.
A flurry of yellow cards were introduced by Referee Howard
Webb as Bosingwa received a yellow for a tackle on Rooney on
the left & after Ryan Giggs curled a free kick into the
penalty area BOTH Ronaldo & Carvalho were booked after
Ronaldo's Portuguese national team mate tried in vain
to remove our number 7's shirt.
An angry reaction & raised hands from Carvalho toward
Ronaldo ensued & as Ronaldo protested to his "mate"
the yellow flash occurred twice.
The best chance
of the half then came United's way when EVDS's long ball to
the left of the half way line found the impressive Patrice
Evra, controlling the ball with his chest, the French full
back utilizing as he did the whole match the space left by
Chelsea's painfully clear lack of width galloped centrally
before passing the Wayne Rooney who in turn dinked a
delightful ball into the path of Dimitar Berbatov.
Still with much to do the Bulgarian who was almost silent in
the 1st half gathered Rooney's brilliant pass before
dummying Carvalho at the same time creating space in the box
only to scuff his shot poorly giving Cech an easy save.
A bout of
cheating from the mighty Chelsea came next as Roller skate
boy Didier Drogba looked as if he had been shot after a Gary
Neville tackle & a short spell of possession later saw
shameful diving antics from Chelsea's overpaid Michael
Ballack after everyone's favorite Ashley Cole crossed into
the box from the left.
Ballack's pathetic behavior seemed the only way the visitors
would threaten a rather underworked EVDS.
United pressured Chelsea some more when John "Its slippy out
there" Terry made a magnificent block from a JSP left footed
shot & again shortly after when Obi Jon lost possession in
his own penalty area, Ronaldo's miscue hit Rooney & Darren
Fletcher had a penalty appeal turned down after John Terry's
arm appeared to hit the ball.
Then came the talking point of the match when Wayne Rooney
took a very quick corner that took the whole Chelsea team by
surprise, not aware that Rooney had indeed taken the ball
into play by moving the ball into & out of the quadrant,
Giggs calm as you like gathered the ball as Chelsea set up
their set piece markers & quickly dashed toward goal
crossing for Ronaldo to rise above the static Chelsea
defenders to beat Cech.
The goal was disallowed and United reacted angrily letting
Chelsea off the hook, for about 10 seconds.
Giggs then retook
the corner & a flick on later from Berbatov to the far post
found Vidic who nodded past Cech for a deserved opening
goal. (Editor: its worth noting a big thanks once again
to Old J.T. (John Terry) for losing his marker for the
goal.)
Luiz Felipe
Scolari was forced to change his hapless plan as Deco was
replaced in the second half by Anelka, a move which seemed
to open the game more in United's favor reducing the number
of bodies in midfield.
Controlling
midfield with relative ease United for the early portion of
the 2nd half were very comfortable even though with two
strikers Chelsea enjoyed a tad more possession than in the
1st half, but sterling hard graft from Giggs, Fletcher, Evra
& especially JSP who nullified the threat of Cole on the
left at the same time getting forward as much as possible
had Chelsea for the taking as UNited turned the screw.
With Evra doing
similar on the other side & stopping Bosingwa the diminutive
& quite brilliant attacking fullback was on full show on
almost the half hour mark as United doubled their advantage.
Ji-Sung Park
broke on the counter from the right & a exchange of passes
between himself, Rooney & Giggs gave Evra the opportunity to
probe deep into Chelsea territory, a sublime back heel &
chance of direction from Ronaldo then gave Evra the chance
to cross a dangerous high cross into the penalty area.
Sensing his opportunity Rooney then closed in on the Evra
cross and went in between Ashley Coles legs, a place where
even Ashley's wife hasn't been if you believe rumors and
side footed home, putting the tie in no doubt.
(Editor: its worth noting a big thanks once again to Old
J.T. (John Terry) for ducking and letting the ball land for
Rooney.)
Rooney was the
next player to receive a yellow & his left wing cross was to
be the last piece of action for Evra as he was replaced due
to injury shortly after by JOS.
Chelsea replied with another spell of non damaging
possession with the crowning moment being a Drogba shot
which dribbled out for goal kick.
Ronaldo then had
a marginal offside decision go against the Official "World
Player of the Year" after the genius of Berbatov threaded a
ball through the centre of two Chelsea defenders ,
racing onward Ronaldo beat Cech but the goal was disallowed.
Ronaldo was given another stab at a goal when a poor Ashley
Cole pass across his goal had deceived Carvalho, Ronaldo
sensing to capitalize on an opportunity, lashed a shot
inches wide of Petr Cech goal, sparing Cole's blushes.
The Cherry on the
icing on the cake came next as United crowed a fantastic day
at the office with another goal as Nemanja Vidic approached
Berbatov before the kick off to as we are aware now, explain
that he would block his marker & Berbatov's to enable free
passage to convert Ronaldo's free kick.
Working to perfection Vidic indeed blocked two men & United
scored their third of a demoralizing defeat for Chelski.
So a fine performance combining a Liverpool slip up totally
capitalized on, a Spanish waiter doing a Kevin Keegan & a
battering for them smug bast*rds from West London.
(Editor: its worth noting a big thanks once again to Old
J.T. (John Terry) for slipping in the Champions League Final
in Moscow.)
Congratulations goes to Diego Maradona & the Entire
Chelsea squad for meeting Tanner & Sandra from West Cumbria
in the Radisson Hotel Car Park in Manchester at 7am.
Gaining the information for the scoop before major tabloids,
Sky Sports & BBC News, a close source to MUFCINFO.COM had
reported that he (Maradona) had apparently almost set his
room on fire after smoking cigars.
Oh and yes Frank Lampard was trying to hide his his face in
the car park.
(Editor: its worth noting that John Terry slipped in the Car
Park).
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