Chelsea 2 Manchester United 1
Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed Under Premiership 07/08
Chelsea moved level on points with Man United in the race for the premiership title.Chelsea started the match very well & pressed Man United from the start when Essen brought a save out of Van Der Sar in the opening minutes.Things got worse for United as Vidic had to be subbed in the 12th minute as he was caught in the face by Drogba’s knee.Hargreaves came on as United had to reshuffle their defence.Joe cole then got unlucky as he span on a ball in the 21st minute but his shot hit the angle of the bar then in the 24th minute Drogba & Essen had a lovely one two then Essen made a fantastic cross which went over everybody.Man United were very poor as Rooney who was alone up front found it very hard and with Giggs & Nani being very slow in joining him in attacks.A free kick then caused trouble as Ashley Cole floated it in & John Terry rose to meet the ball but couldn’t direct his header goal wards.Then success as all the pressure told as Chelsea took the lead Drogba done some neat work & put in a cross which Ballack in acres of space header across the keeper & into the net.The players then showed some class when they held up Frank Lampard’s shirt with R.I.P Pat Lampard on it Then the ref went & booked Ballack for taking his shirt off.
Manchester United then came out in the second half with more purpose & had lots of possession but still found it hard to create any chances.But a unlikely source got them back into the game.It was a bad defensive mistake by Carvalho who passed back to the keeper Cech on his blind side & it went straight to Rooney who drove towards goal & fired the ball passed Cech & into the net. The game then just went funny were there were a flurry of substitutions from both sides who were trying to score again.But it took until the 84th minute when Essen had the ball & put in a cross into the United box but for some reason Michael Carrick stuck his hand which hit the ball on its way over & the linesman gave the penalty.Ballack who had taken penalty’s in the world cup calmly stepped up & put the penalty to his right were Van Der Sar went to his left.Then if got frantic when Ashley cole had to hack off the line a Ronaldo effort & then Shevchenko had to clear off the line form underneath the bar from a combo of Ferdinand & fletcher but Chelsea held on to win this important football match.
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