February 21, 2010

Cheer Up :)

Assalamualaikum, and good day people.


Cheer up Man Utd fans, it's not like the whole world crumble yet.

Last night's match against Everton predicted to be a competition. David Moyes' side are in good form and I'm not surprised to see Man Utd been defeated like such. (Well... The score line did surprised me!!!)

Let's recap the whole.

Everton who lost both of their influential players, Tim Cahill (Injury) and Marouine Fellaini (Out for the whole season) starts the high-profile match in a 4-5-1 formation, and let alone the French striker Louis Saha in front (LOVE YOU SAHA!!! REDS FOREVER!). Leon Osman, Stephen Piennar and Mikel Arteta was put in the midfield while the Russian hit man Bilyaletdinov and American Landon Donovan operates the flanks. Ex-Reds, Phil Neville captained the side and operates along with Johnny Heitinga, Sylvian Distin and Leighton Baines at the back. Another former Reds Tim Howard is in between the sticks.

Man Utd who just won a great match in San Siro on Tuesday, had Nemanja Vidic in the squad, but only put in the bench. They started with a 4-4-2 formation. Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov collaborated up while Michael Carrick and Darren Fletcher are in the midfield. Since Nani was suspended for a three match ban (Serving his first match ban) Ecuadorian Antonio Valencia deputized the right flank while ever-loving Korean player Ji-Sung Park in the left. Captain Gary Neville again called up along with Johnny Evans, Wes Brown and Patrice Evra. Edwin Van Der Sar is in goal.

Heading to the match, Man Utd had never lost in Goodison since 2005, and for the record, the Merseyside Blue has only beaten Man Utd two times. So the prospect of winning here is predictable. However, after Everton pulling the strings of fine performance and even Man City and Chelsea were defeated here, the Blues would likely to make a great victory against Man Utd.

Refereeing for the match is the 2010 World Cup official, Mr. Howard Webb.

The match started brightly for Man Utd who scored for the Reds within 16 minutes of play. Rooney picked up Antonio Valencia at right and he crossed a low pass into the box. The ball was ricochet against a defender, and the ball end up at Berbatov's fright foot. The Bulgarian hit man quickly balanced himself to hit the ball instantly for the opener.

However, 3 minutes later, A mistake by United's defense lead up an equalizer for Everton. A long ball from the back was for Louis Saha. Young Johnny Evans anticipated the ball but the challenge by the French striker was fair. Bilyaletdinov picked up the ball from his side and ran into the box before shoots a screamer, which Edwin Van Der Sar had not budged. Replays show how the challenge on Johnny Evans was fair and Bilyaletdinov used Brown's body as a shield from Edwin's view.

The half time ended too soon. The pundits began to put their money in for the Blues, which shows their true nature. They are the team who beats Manchester City and Chelsea in this very turf and they are will likely to repeat the achievement against Manchester United.

As the second half on the way and sadly it turned up to be a goalless as the clock reached an hour.

However, substitute Dan Gosling finally put his team ahead after a fine work from the Everton's African player Stephen Piennar. Gary Neville left out by the African's pace and he immediately centred the ball for his teammates to scrap the pieces. Louis Saha missed the chance to hit it but luckily Gosling's there.

The Blues were not finished there yet! They then introduced Jack Rodwell. Ok, here's the stuff.


Jack Rodwell has been in the eyes of Man Utd which is to be, their next signing. The young Blues player puts an exclamation point for Everton's third goal during the dying time of the match.

Picking up the pieces, Jack rain through the defense and even Evans (He terribly poor for the whole game) looked like a dunce back there. Fast and Furious, Jack hits with his right and the ball slides through Edwin and thus the celebration explodes the whole Goodison Park. Of course, he got booked for taking of his shirt....

Alright, so in conclusion, Everton won by three goals to one, and another great win for Everton; and also, another high-profile lose for Man Utd.

Both managers' shakes hand and Sir Alex Ferguson congratulated his S

cottish counterpart, and truly adimits the match was for Everton, since they hit the equaliser.

Here's some from SAF (Taken from manutd.com.)

"We were well beaten; it's as simple as that. Maybe we left something in Milan, there certainly looked to be a lot of tiredness in the team. But we're going for a championship and we expect Manchester United to respond to the importance of the game. The players had all been bouncing in the week, but there's a small possibility that we left something in Milan. Certainly, we looked really tired. The real effect came in the second half, we were second best to everything. We started the game well enough, but you don't want to lose a goal so quickly after taking the lead, and Everton's goal galvanised them and gave them som

e incentive. In the second half they were the better team, it's as simple as that".

However, a positive comments about the prospect of Man Utd retain the title was again been said by the manager.

"I'm disappointed, and of course the players are disappointed. They play for Manchester United and don't like losing. We've been doing that [responding] for a long time, so I don't expect a problem that way. It's a bad result for us at this time of the year. You can't afford results like that. We hope others drop points, and that's the way the league has been this season. Hopefully it turns out right again, but I don't think we'll panic."

As for Everton's Manager, his interview was a mix of fun yet positiv

e or positive yet fun, or... Whatever... (LOL and quotes taken from eurosports.yahoo.com)

"We can start looking upwards a bit more than downwards. This was always going to be a tricky month and we have started it pretty well. It was a great result and you don't beat the big teams that often so we are delighted. I have said for a while on our day we can be a match for the teams above.

"I told (Landon Donovan) most of the players in England play with flu four or five times a year. If you are from Los Angeles you probably don't know what flu is! I think Landon would like to stay but at the moment it probably looks as if not. I wouldn't want to have any disrespect to his club or the contract he has over there."

So that's it.

Next match for Man Utd is West ham, fresh from their win against Hull (3-0), home. The match is telecasted and it's on Wednesday 4 am (Local time). SO bets of luck there Reds!

Any feedbacks are welcome. So have a nice day and Assalamualaikum.

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