FOOTBALL Live

Saturday March 15, 2008 Finished Pride Park

Logo 0 - Manchester United 1

Derby County

Manchester United

  • Ronaldo 76’
  1. Ronaldo saves subpar United

    Ronaldo saves subpar United

    Manchester United struggled to a 1-0 win at Derby with a goal from Cristiano Ronaldo, a result that saw them take top spot in the Premier League. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Derby County
    • Manchester United
    • 90+5' There's the final whistle, and Manchester United know they have been in a game alright. Derby can take enormous credit from this performance, even if it ends up as yet another one to put in the loss column.
    • 90+4' Carroll is up for a Derby corner and takes a shot from the edge of the box!! It is blocked and Derby manage to get the ball out to allow their keeper to return to his box!
    • 90+3' Ronaldo is through again and takes it on his left.. saved again by Carroll!!
    • 90' RONALDO!! Fires a dipping effort that Carroll palms away and Saha bundles the rebound wide!
    • 89' McEveley tugs back Ronaldo, and he will probably shoot here rather than usher the ball to the corner.
    • 86' United seem happy enough to settle for 1-0, which says plenty about the impressive way Derby have performed this afternoon.
    • 84' Carroll isn't the only one in trouble - referee Phil Dowd has to go off injured and is replaced by fourth official Trevor Kettle.
    • 83' Carroll continues, but needs Leacock to take his goal kick for him. Meanwhile Laurent Robert replaces Sterjovski.
    • 80' Roy Carroll undergoes some lengthy treatment. That should add a couple of minutes' injury time.
    • 77' Well, I never thought I would see Cristiano Ronaldo celebrate a goal against Derby with such intensity! Wild gesticulation rather than the usual arrogant shrug.. Derby bring on Villa for Earnshaw.
    • 76' GOOOOAAALLLL!!!! Cristiano Ronaldo, who else? Rooney runs on to an O'Shea ball down the left and crosses to the unmarked Ronaldo, who makes light of an unkind bounce and prods past Carroll!!
    • 74' Final change from Alex Ferguson - Darren Fletcher on for Anderson.
    • 74' RONALDO!! Fires just wide again! Saha looked to have a great chance moments earlier but held on to the ball for far too long.
    • 73' United have lost any semblance of fluency - you really can't see them scoring. Meanwhile at the other end Jones has a shot blocked.
    • 72' Another booking here, as Carrick pulls back Miller.
    • 71' Savage in late on Anderson - yellow card. It had to happen, didn't it?
    • 69' United break with Giggs, but Robbie Savage has been everywhere today and is there once again to prevent his fellow Welshman delivering any end product.
    • 67' Another good save by Foster!! Sterjovski is unmarked on the right side and gets his shot away. It loops up off Carrick and nearly drops into the far corner but the United keeper palms it over for a corner!
    • 67' Rooney is dropping deeper in search of possession following the introduction of Saha.
    • 65' Saha slides in on Moore, and he is lucky to see referee Dowd wave play on. Moore looks a bit unsteady after that but he will continue.
    • 63' Fergie has seen enough of this. Louis Saha and Michael Carrick are on for Scholes and Park.
    • 62' Over an hour gone, and still Derby hold United. Lewis curls a free-kick into the United box but it is too hard and goes out for a goal-kick.
    • 61' Evra goes down painfully after an aerial challenge with Sterjovski... he staggers off and looks like he may not be back.
    • 59' Another free-kick for Ronaldo to strike... JUST WIDE!! From that range it would have to be a hell of a strike.
    • 57' Park makes a last-ditch tackle to prevent McEveley from crossing but at the price of a corner. Robbie Savage - ever the professional - takes an age over it.
    • 56' Derby make a change, with hard man Andy Todd replacing Edworthy. Meanwhile, Ronaldo again fails to locate the back of the net from a Giggs corner, lifting his shot over.
    • 55' RONALDO AGAIN!! He meets the corner with a downward flying header that hits the unwitting Carroll!
    • 55' United free-kick 30 yards out. Ronaldo smashes a dipping effort that Carroll fumbles and Leacock is forced to concede a corner!
    • 52' Derby are building up a head of steam here, although it is spoiled by a McEveley cross that booms straight into the crowd.
    • 51' Ronaldo fires in a free-kick from the left that hits a defender and is cleared. Derby come away on the break but Earnshaw hits a weak shot, miskicking completely.
    • 48' Vidic catches Miller from behind in the United box and a penalty shout goes up - turned down by Phil Dowd!
    • 46' Second half under way! No changes from either manager, but United have no doubt been on the receiving end of some choice words from Alex Ferguson.
    • 45+3' Half-time at Pride Park, and amazingly Derby are unlucky not to be ahead. This one not going according to the script!
    • 45+1' Park feeds Ronaldo who plays the ball across the face of goal. Was that a shot or a cross? In the end, it turned out to be neither.
    • 45' Rooney collects a pass in the right channel, lifts the ball over Darren Moore and smashes his shot just wide!
    • 44' Savage has a nibble at Ronaldo off the ball, prompting Phil Dowd to give him a ticking off. No card, though.
    • 42' More panic at the back from United as Brown goes missing and the ball is played in to Earnshaw, but O'Shea hacks the ball out for a corner.
    • 41' Leacock needs treatment after a clash of heads at a corner, but after a squirt of water to the bandana he looks OK. Which is more than can be said for the clearly furious Alex Ferguson. His side are a mess.
    • 39' Miller leaves Vidic in a heap and is clean through!! SAVED BY FOSTER!! United are all over the place at the moment. Great stuff from Derby.
    • 38' MILLER!!! Volleys goalwards from 15 yards and Foster makes a fine save, diving to his left! A great cross by Lewis to set that up.
    • 37' It might not be glowing praise to say that Derby are not being completely outclassed, but they look alright here. Not a bad side.
    • 35' Miller fouls Ronaldo just outside the box on the right side. Giggs to drive the free-kick in... over the top. He is having a bit of a mare today.
    • 34' Edworthy gives the ball away to Rooney and this could spell trouble. The ball ends up with Ronaldo who tries a shot with the outside of his foot.. clawed away by Carroll!
    • 33' Giggs to deliver a free-kick from the right... and once again Roy Caroll makes a relatively easy catch.
    • 31' Here come United on the break as Ronaldo releases Rooney through the centre. Well out Carroll to get there first! Frustration for United.
    • 30' Earnshaw swivels and shoots from 20 yards. An easy save for Foster, who is really struggling with his kicks. Another one is sliced wildly and barely reaches halfway.
    • 28' Paul Jewell will be happy with this. His side showing much more application than they did against Chelsea. But now they have another corner to defend.
    • 25' Scholes picks out the overlapping O'Shea on the right but the Irishman's cross is a poor one and is cut out.
    • 23' David Jones halts his former team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo with a tackle better suited to Twickenham than Pride Park. Yellow card.
    • 22' Another United corner, Giggs to take from the right side... but he curls it straight into the hands of Carroll.
    • 19' Rooney finds Giggs with a superb through ball. Carroll races out and Giggs veers left, but fires well wide.
    • 18' Derby are starting to see a bit of the ball and are passing it around nicely. It's probably a bit of a stretch to say there's an upset on the cards but United may wish they had a proper ballwinner in midfield.
    • 16' Ronaldo takes an age lining up his shot and Robbie Savage nicks the ball off him. He's just overelaborating a bit.
    • 14' Darren Moore swivels to fire off a shot in the United box but it dribbles weakly wide.
    • 12' Ronaldo off the post!! O'Shea pulls back for the Portuguese, whose daisycutter shot looks destined for the corner before curling lucklessly onto the woodwork. You have to feel it's just a matter of time.
    • 10' Foster shanks an attempted clearance - to cheers from the crowd - although it gives Evra the chance to keep the ball in play with a bizarre kung-fu kick. Sorry - looked like Nani.
    • 9' United are racking up the corners - that's three within 90 seconds. No breakthrough yet.
    • 7' Park plays a low ball into the right for Giggs, whose right-foot shot is deflected behind for a corner.
    • 6' Darren Moore is booked for a foul on Wayne Rooney, who manages to lose his shorts in the process. Thank goodness for those big white undershorts, eh?
    • 3' Cristiano Ronaldo races through the left channel and goes for goal... fires high over. The ball may have bobbled up. Or it may have been a rubbish effort.
    • 2' A big day for Ben Foster, who starts in goal for United with Edwin van der Sar injured and Tomasz Kuszczak suspended. Down the other end Ryan Giggs tests United old boy Roy Carroll with a weak shot.
    • 1' Game on! Manchester United kick off what would appear to be a mismatch, but can Derby spring a major surprise?
    • - United shake up their side, but still feature Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney. Ryan Giggs is back on the left, while Park Ji-Sung gets a start. No Rio Ferdinand, though. Derby opt for Eddie Lewis ahead of Hossam Ghaly.
    • - Welcome to LIVE coverage of Derby v Manchester United from Pride Park!

  • Team Stats

    Derby County Stats Manchester United
    38% Possession 62%
    12 Shots 19
    4 Shots on target 7
    4 Saves 3
    5 Corners 11
    8 Fouls 14
    1 Offsides 3
    4 Yellow cards 1
    0 Red cards 0
    15 Tackles 21
    155 Accurate passes 289
    45 Bad passes 49

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Derby County
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      31 Roy Carroll 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 6 1 0
      23 Darren Moore 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 1
      4 James McEveley 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 9 5 0
      2 Marc Edworthy 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 1 2
      5 Dean Leacock 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 2 0
      44 Robbie Savage 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 23 6 1
      7 David Jones 0 2 0 4 0 0 0 27 12 3
      21 Mile Sterjovski 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 16 0 1
      15 Eddie Lewis 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12 2 1
      14 Kenny Miller 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 25 9 3
      10 Robert Earnshaw 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 3 1 0
      17 Andrew Todd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 3
      9 Emanuel Villa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0
      1 Lewis Price 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      40 Hossam Ghaly 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      26 Laurent Robert 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 4 0
    • Manchester United
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      12 Ben Foster 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0
      6 Wes Brown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 2 0
      3 Patrice Evra 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 21 11 3
      22 John O'Shea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 1 7
      15 Nemanja Vidic 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 32 8 2
      13 Ji-sung Park 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 17 3 2
      18 Paul Scholes 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 32 2 0
      11 Ryan Giggs 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 20 7 4
      8 Anderson Oliveira 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 25 4 1
      7 Cristiano Ronaldo 1 12 6 0 5 1 0 27 2 1
      10 Wayne Rooney 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 23 5 0
      16 Michael Carrick 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 17 3 0
      9 Louis Saha 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 5 1 0
      4 Owen Hargreaves 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      38 Tom Heaton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      24 Darren Fletcher 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 1

  • Summary

    • 90+4' Carroll is up for a Derby corner and takes a shot from the edge of the box!! It is blocked and Derby manage to get the ball out to allow their keeper to return to his box!
    • 90+3' Ronaldo is through again and takes it on his left.. saved again by Carroll!!
    • 90' RONALDO!! Fires a dipping effort that Carroll palms away and Saha bundles the rebound wide!
    • 76' GOOOOAAALLLL!!!! Cristiano Ronaldo, who else? Rooney runs on to an O'Shea ball down the left and crosses to the unmarked Ronaldo, who makes light of an unkind bounce and prods past Carroll!!
    • 74' RONALDO!! Fires just wide again! Saha looked to have a great chance moments earlier but held on to the ball for far too long.
    • 73' United have lost any semblance of fluency - you really can't see them scoring. Meanwhile at the other end Jones has a shot blocked.
    • 67' Another good save by Foster!! Sterjovski is unmarked on the right side and gets his shot away. It loops up off Carrick and nearly drops into the far corner but the United keeper palms it over for a corner!
    • 59' Another free-kick for Ronaldo to strike... JUST WIDE!! From that range it would have to be a hell of a strike.
    • 55' RONALDO AGAIN!! He meets the corner with a downward flying header that hits the unwitting Carroll!
    • 55' United free-kick 30 yards out. Ronaldo smashes a dipping effort that Carroll fumbles and Leacock is forced to concede a corner!
    • 45' Rooney collects a pass in the right channel, lifts the ball over Darren Moore and smashes his shot just wide!
    • 39' Miller leaves Vidic in a heap and is clean through!! SAVED BY FOSTER!! United are all over the place at the moment. Great stuff from Derby.
    • 38' MILLER!!! Volleys goalwards from 15 yards and Foster makes a fine save, diving to his left! A great cross by Lewis to set that up.
    • 34' Edworthy gives the ball away to Rooney and this could spell trouble. The ball ends up with Ronaldo who tries a shot with the outside of his foot.. clawed away by Carroll!
    • 12' Ronaldo off the post!! O'Shea pulls back for the Portuguese, whose daisycutter shot looks destined for the corner before curling lucklessly onto the woodwork. You have to feel it's just a matter of time.
    • 7' Park plays a low ball into the right for Giggs, whose right-foot shot is deflected behind for a corner.
    • 3' Cristiano Ronaldo races through the left channel and goes for goal... fires high over. The ball may have bobbled up. Or it may have been a rubbish effort.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Derby County

    Manager: Paul Jewell

    Captain: Robbie Savage

    On the Field

    • Carroll
    • Edworthy Substitution Out (56′)
    • Leacock
    • Moore Yellow Card
    • McEveley
    • Sterjovski Substitution Out (83′)
    • Savage Yellow Card
    • Lewis
    • Jones Yellow Card
    • Miller
    • Earnshaw Substitution Out (77′)

    Subs

    • Robert Substitution In (83′)
    • Todd Substitution In (56′)
    • Ghaly
    • Price
    • Villa Substitution In (77′)

    Injured

    • Stubbs
    • Davis
    • Barnes

    Suspended

    None

  • Manchester United

    Manager: Alex Ferguson

    On the Field

    • Foster
    • O'Shea
    • Brown
    • Vidic
    • Evra
    • Scholes Substitution Out (63′)
    • Anderson Substitution Out (74′)
    • Park Substitution Out (63′)
    • Ronaldo Goal
    • Giggs
    • Rooney

    Subs

    • Hargreaves
    • Carrick Substitution In (63′) Yellow Card
    • Saha Substitution In (63′)
    • Fletcher Substitution In (74′)
    • Heaton

    Injured

    • Neville
    • Silvestre

    Suspended

    • Kuszczak