Avram Grant was all smiles when German captian Michael Ballack scored two goals against United in stamford brigde which made them win equalising the points.In the first half it was chelsea mostly having the ball and trying to score.Red devils' defence went a bit weak when Vidic was injured in the early stage of the game,he was hit in his mouth by Didier Drogba and had to be carried away in a stretcher.Coming back to Ballack,the first one was a head hit which went straight to the goal.Then Wayne Rooney eqaulized the score at 57th minute,after a careless pass by Chelsea's Ricardo Carvalho.Then Ballack had the second one going in a penalty shot when Michael Carrick carelessly handed the ball.Though both teams points stand at 81,chelsea have a fair chance of winning the Premier league.Chelsea wanted a penalty when Carrick ran down a cross from Essien,the referee Alan Wiley came and indicated that it wasn't a handball but his linesmen declared it was.While Van der Sar,Hargreaves and Ferdinand came down to argue with the referees, but the referee pointed to the spot and Ballack stayed calm before powering the kick past Van der Sar for a winner that Chelsea deserved.Van der Sar made all his efforts to ward off the kick from Drogba after being cleared by Ashley Cole and Shevchenko.In the last stages Ferdinand and Claude Makelele had a scuffle and went to the extent of almost hitting each other.The pushing and shoving landed Ferdinand and a Hargreaves a yellow card.Then efforts of Joe Cole went down the drain,as his kick hit the post in the injury time.Drogba's kick in the injury time also found the goal post.Ronaldo played only the last 25 minutes of the game and rest oof the time he was on the benches.
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