Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Manchester United 1 Chelsea 0
Darren Fletcher 31st minute
Where Arsenal, Liverpool, Charlton, Tottenham and Wigan have failed, Manchester United succeeds. The red devils have beaten Jose Mourinho's Chelsea for the first time under his reign. Darren Fletcher's looping header had an element of luck but it all counts. United dominated the first half but Chelsea came back strong in the second. Sir Alex ferguson fooled Jose Mourinho with the 4-3-3. Jose countered with his own 4-3-3 when actually, united were playing their favourite 4-4-1-1 formation. It was tremendous fighting sprit from the united players, it took 3 men to close down a trademark Frank Lampard free kick and it took great defensive tracking by John O'Shea to stop Joe Cole and later Shaun wright-phillips. Rio performed well with Silvestre and so did Edwin van der sar, stopping a close range blast from Frank Lampard. But the man that was crowned Man of the match, Alan Smith, performed brilliantly to cover his defence and to step in and save united time and time again. United could have had more. Stand in skipper Ruud van Nistelrooy blazed a 10 yard shot over the bar, Rooney's shot defected out by Del Horno and Park's shot in the dying moments was ruled offside. The defeat of the unbeatables have become common place at the theatre of dreams. When last year, Arsenal's 49 unbeaten run was ended by a Ruud van Nistelrooy penalty and a Wayne Rooney birthday goal. This time, Fletcher's 50th manchester United apperance was crowned with the match winner against the reigning champs. With United 3rd with a game in hand, can they close the 10 point gap and give Chelsea a race to the end? It starts in 2 week with Unites's tricky trip to 8th place charlton and Chelsea's home game against rejuvanated Newcastle United.
Weekend report:
Team of the week: Manchester United
Flop of the week: Middlesbrough
Player of the week: Alan Smith
Blunder of the week: none
Comeback of the week: Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa( 0-0 till 80th min)
Manager of the week: Sir Alex Ferguson
Goal of the week: brett Emerton(BBurn)
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