Monday, November 07, 2005

Man utd VS Chelsea

Once again, your post match analyst, rafael gohnitez, again with the post match report of the man u chelsea game.

Just before the game, Ferguson said that he will be playing 4-3-3. HAHA, mind games again, as you can see at the start of the match. O shea at the left, silvestre and ferdinand in the centre, and wes brown, yes wes brown at the right. Middle of the park its ronaldo scholes smith and FLETCHER. Again another bao leng guy at the right side of midfield.

Man utd started of brightly, playing flowing football that had been lacking in the previous few games. Smith and scholes controlled the middle of the park, with some beautiful sliding tackles. Seems like the plan was easy, close them down. Chelsea didn't have much time on the ball, and the long ball tactics to rooney and RVN was a problem to the chelsea defence. Since fletcher was on the right, they could only get cross in through ronaldo, and he was causing alot of problems for the ferrari.

At last, the deadlock broken. It started off with rooney, with his back facing the goal, he held the ball and kept the play going by dribbling pass 2 players, then with a pass to ronaldo, who had a chance to shoot, he fakes the defender and puts a delightful ball into the area with his left foot, fletcher got there, heads the ball into the area, and guess what, GOALLL. He puts it straight into the net. Great individual play by rooney and ronaldo.

During the half time, I did not expect mourinho to make any changes, simply because, no change can let them win if they continue to play like how they did in the first half. Man utd wanted the win more than chelsea, and i thought the half time talk might do the trick.

Chelsea came on the second half, and responded like champions. They had more ideas now, playing more flowing football, and man utd was pushed to defend deep. However they did not create any clear chance, plus with the likes of rooney and ronaldo upfield, it would be easy to hit them on the counter. Mourinho tried to add some spark by bringing on SWP, but he was transparent against O shea.

Man utd defended for their lives and recorded a 1-0 win against chelsea. Finally things are looking up for them, and if they go into every game with such passion and commitment, i believe they can be genuine title contenders.

A great game of football in a neutral point of view, and the switching back to 4-4-2 was very effective today.

Now chelsea 2nd loss in a row, is this going to mark the start of a losing streak? I hope so, i don't want the title race to end so early.

Man of the match is definitely smith, you can see why ferguson decided to convert him into a midfielder, and under the guidance of keane, he may be the midfield general for man utd in the near future.

Thats all from ur post match analyst, stay tune for more match reports.

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