Carling Cup - Ten-man United hold off Wolves

Eurosport - Thu, 24 Sep 09:44:00 2009

Ten-man Manchester United held on to defeat Wolves 1-0 thanks to a Danny Welbeck strike in their third round Carling Cup clash at Old Trafford.

Manchester United's Danny Welbeck (C) shoots to score during their English League Cup soccer match against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Old Trafford REUTERS - 0

Wolves were unable to take advantage of Fabio's 29th minute dismissal for a professional foul on Michael Kightly and United eased through to round four with the minimum of fuss thanks to Welbeck's composed 66th minute finish.

It was Wolves who had the first opportunity of the match after 12 minutes and the former United striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake was the man with the chance.

Ebanks-Blake and Kightly had shared a few neat link-ups prior to this one and this time Kightly fed last season's top scorer in the Championship, who cut inside and hit a shot that had Tomasz Kuszczak at full stretch, but that in the end was just too high.

United, as is customary at Old Trafford, enjoyed the majority of possession, but in part due to Nani's inability to produce a final ball to back up his neat wing play, the hosts hadn't created a chance of note in the opening 28 minutes.

In the 29th minute Wolves broke after a United attack and when the ball broke loose after a challenge by Wes Brown on Stefan Maierhofer, Kightly was away and clear.

Fabio was caught on the wrong side and with Kightly bearing down on goal Fabio slipped and pulled the Wolves winger down with him, giving referee Peter Walton no option but to send the young defender off.

Wolves had a couple of chances to make their numerical advantage tell in the final quarter of an hour of the half, but David Jones, himself a former United youngster, was guilty of missing the best of them.

Goalmouth action was few and far between in the second half and other than a deflected 64th minute effort from Nani that struck Marcus Hahnemann's post and rebounded to safety, chances were at a premium and the match looked to be at a stalemate with Wolves reluctant to go all out for the win.

All that changed two minutes later when Michael Carrick picked out Owen on the edge of the Wolves penalty area and the striker played a perfectly weighted first time pass to Welbeck, who finished confidently past Hahnemann.

Wolves brought on Kevin Doyle for the tiring Ebanks-Blake and the Irish international had the best of the remaining chances in the game, however he found Kuszczak in decent form in goal for United and the visitors were unable to get back into the game.

Sean Calvert / Eurosport

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  1. joe moore quality pal well said scouse scummers you­ aint in our league you nobs come back when you won­ something

    From DAZGGMU-RED-LEGEND-OF-YAHOO, on Fri 25 Sep 7:00PM

  2. Hmmm yeah hot up your campaign, thats a good one! You­ barely scraped a win at Leeds - they were all over you,­ if it werent for Torres you wouldn't have beat West­ Ham - you played an over convincing 1st Champions­ League game against a barely known Hungarian side so I­ don't think it's safe to say your challenging­ Man United for their title yet. Chelsea are the main­ threat to us this year, not you scousers! We have beat­ Man City, Tottenham and Arsenal. You haven't even­ played a top side at the moment so once you can say­ you've beat United, Chelsea, Arsenal or any other­ of the top clubs, then perhaps you can start yapping,­ until then shut up! You may have beat us 4-1 last­ season, but who won the trophy at the end of it? The­ same team who has won the Premier League 3 seasons on­ the trot....UNITED TIL I DIE!

    From Joe Moore69, on Fri 25 Sep 8:29AM

  3. Cant wait for liverpool to give man u a good thrashing­ like last season!!

    What was it 1 -4 ???? eat this­ reddevils-4life99. Liverpool are beginning to hot up­ their campaign now just watch us this year!!

    From alancoverdale795, on Thu 24 Sep 9:36PM

  4. I WOULD NEVER LIVE IN LIVERPOOL THE SELF PITY CITY MAN­ UNITED FANS ARE CHEERFUL AND OPTIMISTIC LIVERFOOL FANS­ ARE DEPRESSING MOANING ALLWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE PAST­ SCUMMERS WHO ARE SO DESPERATE FOR A PREMIER LEAGUE BUT­ MAN UNITED BREAK YOUR LITTLE HEARTS AND I LOVE IT

    From reddevils_4life99, on Thu 24 Sep 6:40PM

  5. those young lads really played well, biggups. up­ Manchester United.

    From jide, on Thu 24 Sep 3:25PM

  6. WELL DONE SAF... WE ARE THE CHAMPS. THE YOUNG LADS PUT­ ON A NICE AND BRILLIANT
    DISPLAY SHOWING THAT THEY ARE­ RIPE FOR ANY GAME ESPECIALLY IN MID-FIELD AND­ UP
    FRONT

    BEL pa zed

    From Brian, on Thu 24 Sep 2:27PM

  7. WELL DONE SAF... WE ARE THE CHAMPS. THE YOUNG LADS PUT­ ON A NICE AND BRILLIANT
    DISPLAY SHOWING THAT THEY ARE­ RIPE FOR ANY GAME ESPECIALLY IN MID-FIELD AND­ UP
    FRONT

    BEL pa zed

    From Brian, on Thu 24 Sep 1:57PM

  8. He seems to think his little melon clut of a brain that­ as we are on computers writing on these boards, we are­ therefore at home! I wouldn't stand up to him if I­ were you, I did and I was called a Nazi! Ouuuuuuuuu, I­ want to go home and cry myself to sleep....apparently­ we all have sheep at home waiting for us so we should­ all be ok LOL.

    From Joe Moore69, on Thu 24 Sep 1:26PM

  9. foeyp - Haha. The reason I'm not on there as much­ as you is I am at work. Obviously a concept not for­ you. Oh to have the time to bang on endlessly with such­ classics as "sheep shagger" on here. Get some­ original ideas or insults for F***S SAKE! Although I­ have to admit it did make me laugh a little!!!!

    From Chris F, on Thu 24 Sep 1:17PM

  10. joe moore if you slag him off he dissapears cos the­ truth hurts doesnt it he is a smackhead and never­ worked cos he is too busy jacking up with his no teeth­ ugly missus they got spare time now cos all there­ scrote kids are in care at our expense the next line of­ scouse scumbags coming through ha ha keep up the­ slagging of foneypaedo and break his heart ha ha ha­ scouse bindipping moron

    From DAZGGMU-RED-LEGEND-OF-YAHOO, on Thu 24 Sep 1:03PM

  11. LOL nice one daz!
    The k*ob even had the check to call­ me a hypocrite and a 'politcal idiot' for­ calling the scouse 'scummers'

    QUOTE FROM FOEYP­ - sheep 5haggin wooly back manc scumbags are a joke ON­ PREVIOUS COMMENT

    I rest my case - Foeyp YOU ARE A­ TOTAL HYPOCRITCAL MUG

    From Joe Moore69, on Thu 24 Sep 12:55PM

  12. foeyps name should be foneypaedo cos thats what he is­ jacko was his hero heee heee

    From DAZGGMU-RED-LEGEND-OF-YAHOO, on Thu 24 Sep 12:51PM

  13. ha ha ha foneyp calling other posters on here lmao pot­ kettle black springs to mind foneyp now go and get your­ giro and buy your heroin you smackhead and you married­ dream on who would marry a scruffy gypo scouse scumbag­ with no morals or a job oh yeah another scouse scummer­ with no teeth and trackmarks in here arms dirty tramp­ and were paying for his scrote kids in care the vermin

    From DAZGGMU-RED-LEGEND-OF-YAHOO, on Thu 24 Sep 12:48PM

  14. see your still here foeyp spouting your drivel and­ foeyp unlike your lazy scouse arse that spends all its­ time on here trying to be funny[your not your a nob] i­ work and pay your dole money from my taxes you scouse­ cretin and dont lie you are a rentboy who works the­ docks and blows fat men in leather off so dont deny­ what you are .your a horrible little doleite scouse­ c=o=c=k=s=u=c=k=e=r and you know it you turdburgling­ @#$% anyway another season of no trophies for you too­ look forward to cretin now go and service your clients­ you scummer 3 seasons and won f==kall soon to be 4 ha­ ha ggmu ggmu

    From DAZGGMU-RED-LEGEND-OF-YAHOO, on Thu 24 Sep 12:44PM

  15. I don't believe this. People say ManUnited can get­ away with anything at OT. So why did the ref send off­ Fabio. What will the ManUnited haters say now. OK­ enough with the tantrum now. It's good to see Brown­ back. Almost to his best. Some of the guys need perking­ up though - Carrick, Nani et al. And Foster should be­ eyeing the corridor out of OT. He's a liability in­ big games. Neither is Kuszczak any better. Good luck in­ the next round boys.

    From cokrowinoto, on Thu 24 Sep 12:06PM

  16. comment 112..foeyp..

    i beg your­ pardon!!!..sorry??..SPEAK FOR YOURSELF,MORON!!!..jesus­ christ!!!..
    WHAT ABOUT YOU???..you'hv been talking­ S***E day in,day out,irritating fellow readers &­ now you'hv got the nerve in reflection of your­ comment???....
    STOP EMBARRASING YOURSELF THAT YOU­ ALREADY ARE!!!...
    COS EVERYONE IS LAUGHING AT­ YOU!!!!..in spite of my comments,i think you ought to­ seek some serious help from your MOTHER,to get proper­ EDUCATED before suffering from a MENTAL ANXIETY­ BREAKDOWN!!!...if not you can always fall back on my­ previous comment as a PRESCRIPTED advise!!!.....im sure­ you're not that DUMB to figure that out too....or­ just maybe....WTF!!!!.....
    i rest my­ case!!!.......GGMU....

    From Those Rats likes Bin dippin for free Cheeseburger, on Thu 24 Sep 11:50AM

  17. its actually quin not quad and it includes footage of­ the only team ever to play in every single game that­ they could play in from the start of the season. To try­ to make it clearer than that basically means they got­ to the final and won every cup competition they entered­ plus all league games. No-one has ever done it before­ or since. Yes it is a video not a dvd but i am sure it­ is available in both.

    From rafaforpope, on Thu 24 Sep 11:38AM

  18. Blimey that must be old if it's videos? I actually­ own a DVD player so couldn't actually watch your­ Quadruple it if I wanted to? Although I don't­ believe your 1995 Quadruple even consisted of a Premier­ League trophy or a Champions League trophy? I'll­ just stick with my TREBLE dvd - that has both of the­ biggest prizes in English football being lifted by the­ current reigning English Champions

    From Joe Moore69, on Thu 24 Sep 11:31AM
  19. Comment hidden due to its low rating. Show

    just look at the bile from Chrls79M'UTD4life,­ always talking about mothers milk too Hmmmmmmmm (pauses­ and thinks what a really sick individual this person is­ defo nonce material)probably a scout leader too. Your­ insults are the lowest of the low and show zero class,­ just like your club fans manager etc.....

    From FoeyP, on Thu 24 Sep 11:31AM

  20. Joe do you want to swap videos for my 1995 Quintuple­ one?

    From rafaforpope, on Thu 24 Sep 11:24AM
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