Saturday, August 2, 2008

Champs League Quartefilnal , Man Utd 2 - 0 Roma

What a thumping performance by Manchester united away from old trafford. It was a day when Roma badly need a win to avenge their 7 -1 marauding last year second round against the same rivals.It could not have gone bad for Roma right from the start losing their influential captain Francesco Totti and leading scorer for Roma this season.

The first half hour of the play was equally fought out tussle with chances going for both the team. It was great shock to see Vidic twisting his ankle and being immediately substituted by o'shea. When the was approaching the end of fist half both teams tried to unleash one of their forwards to edge out the other. United were successful when the old veteran scholes played looping ball to ronaldo who put that behind the net with a towering header. With the first half ending with united with a crucial away goal.

When the second half started, Roma had the better of united in their pursuit of pushing for the equalizer with christian panucci missing a sitter. But it was once again Manchester who had the final say and proved "if you don't take the chances we offer you are dead mate". With Roma committing to much into attack, their defense was asked questions by united when a loose ball was failed to clear by the defense it fell too rooney who just tapped in to make it 2 -0 for united.

With ronnie in the form of his life and 2 away goals in Roma, United can now look to semis with much confidence.

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