United played Chelsea today at Stamford Bridge. The game ended 1-1. Before the game I would have taken a draw as United havent been playing very well at all this season and Chelsea are flying. United took the lead after good play from Evra and Rooney with Park finishing. Chelsea, who were without Deco (and Calvalho for most of the game), equalised with about 10 minutes to go. It all came from a freekick they would after Rooney dived in abit as he sometimes does. It was poor defending though when keeper Kuszczak (Van Der Sar went off injured) should have done better. It was also poor marking by United too as Kalou had a free header. I think it was Berbatov who was supposed to be marking him.
United played well for most of the first half but in the 2nd half Chelsea were the better team. Rio Ferdinand was brilliant. Park and Hargreaves worked hard provided protection for the defence against the full backs. Scholes was rubbish though (looked like he wanted to get himself sent off) and the way its going this could well be his last season for United. Neville tried his best but seems to have lost some pace after all his injuries.
In the second half Ronaldo came on and Park came on (for O’Shea). This meant that Ashley Cole on the Chelsea left had more freedom to attack as no Park to provide cover and Ronaldo isnt the type of player to track back. I think it was a mistake really. I know Park has only recently come back from injury back he looked like he still could have continued running. I would have put Ronaldo on and taken Berbatov off who was very very poor. He didnt do anything really. Its only 2 games and they have been against 2 of the big 4 (Liverpool and Chelsea) but hes done nothing to justify the £30m. Before we signed him I thought he was a good player BUT was lazy and had an attitude problem. I hope I am wrong!!!
Ronaldo played his first premier league game of the season and had a couple good runs but lost the ball and still not quite match fit I think.
As with all Chelsea v United games there was some “controversy”. First there was the no. of yellow cards issued. United had 7, Chelsea just the 1. Park said he thought maybe a couple were yellow but not the rest. It wasnt that type of game at all and Mike Riley really was card happy!! A poor poor performance by the ref. Also there was a penalty claim from Chelsea but even Scolari didnt think it was a penalty.
In other games in the premier league, Manchester City beat Portsmouth 6-0!!! It was both an excellent perfomance by City, and a poor one of Portsmouth. With all the Brazilian players in the City team they now play with abit of flair especially Robinho. Lots of stepovers, backheels and flicks. Will be interesting to see how they do this season.
Newcastle and Spurs season continues to worsen with Newcastle losing and Spurs drew against Wigan. Spurs are firmly at the bottom of the Premier League table with Newcastle a couple points above them. Newcastle’s game was against West Ham. It was the first game managed by new manager Gianfranco Zola and they played really well. I hope West Ham do well because I think Zola. A great player.
