Showing posts with label manchester united. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manchester united. Show all posts

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.

 

Today at about 12:15am the manchester united are facing barcelona without their usual defence players Nemanja Vidic and Wes Brown,both were reportedly injured and they both also missed attending a training session Camp Nou,thats where manchester were training, last night.They both have to pass late fitness tests if they are to face the barcelona team.Vidic did not attend the whole training session for treatment of the knee injury suffered in the quarter-final against Roma three weeks ago and he also has a stomach bug while Brown was able to take part in light jogging.United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson still intends to take both players to the game tonight but the lack of their training would put a big pressure on United's defence.Vidic is very important player for Man-u.Vidic's place in the training yesterday was taken by Gerard Piqué,former barcelona youth player, and Brown's right back position was taken by John o'shea.They do have the once again fit Mikaël Silvestr but starting with him will be a great risk as he has played one match after recovering from his serious knee injury,which took him 7 months to recover.And Pique is currently inexperienced at this stage.Alex is giving all the time for Vidic for him to prove that he is fit for the match.If docs allow him,Vidic will play the match even if he is not fully fit.This brings another trouble for united as they face chelsea on saturday at stamford bridge.