On Saturday United played Chelsea in the first final in the new Wembley. It was soooooo boring. I think United were the better team but teams kind off cancelled each other out. Both teams just didnt seem to want to risk making a mistake. There was a period of about 10 minutes in the 2nd half when it was better but that was it.
You could blame the pitch for the slow game. It seemed to make us play the usual slow game Chelsea play (and we seem to play in Europe). (The one time we play like United with loads of pace etc we thrash Roma 7-1!!). The pitch seemed to be a bit long and was cutting up a lot. You would think after 6 years and £800m they could have a decent pitch!!!
The stadium did look nice, although it looks abit like the Emirates plus a big arch. However the design has some faults – when the team picked up the medals – they walked up loads of stairs and actually go out of view for abit!!
Anyway back to the match. Rooney played quite well with some great runs. Ronaldo unfortunately didnt. Actually most players just seemed tired. We did manage to get the ball in the goal but the goal was not given. Rooney crossed and Giggs slid in. However he was tripped by Essien and for that reason slid into Cech resulting in the ball going over the line. It was either a foul by Essien, foul by Giggs or a goal. The ref gave nothing!!!! That means he thought the ball didnt go over the line – when it clearly did.
It was a good goal from Chelsea by Drogba. However the freekick leading up to the goal was NOT a foul. It was a good tackle by Smith. Grrr!!! I also just had to say that that idiot Mikel is a dirty cheating ****. Perfect for Chelsea I guess! If you dont know he is the player who almost signed for United – he changed his mind and said he was forced into signing for us or something. Oh well, thats a shame!!
There was loads of time wasting at end from the cheating scum – they got loads of yellow cards at the end for it as a result. However it didnt help us. Looking at the post match analysis stuff we were unlucky with a few offside decisions which went against us.
The final score in the end AET was 1-0 to them.
