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Wednesday February 18, 2009 Finished Old Trafford

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Manchester United

  • Scholes 12’
  • Berbatov 30’
  • Rooney 63’

Fulham

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  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Manchester United
    • Fulham
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    • - They now sit five points clear of Liverpool at the top of the Premier League table, having played the same number of games, while Fulham stay 10th.
    • 90+3' The match is over - a straightforward win for Ferguson's men, thanks to the strikes of Scholes, Berbatov and the returning Rooney.
    • 90+2' Gibson hits a shot a yard past the top corner. Decent effort as United seek a final goal in this game.
    • 90+1' Ronaldo on his bike on the left, into the box and firing... over the crossbar.
    • 90' Into injury-time we go...
    • 88' Ronaldo lines up a free-kick from over 25 yards out. He stands in the gunslinger pose... and whacks it at least a mile over the bar. Terrible effort.
    • 87' Nobody told Rooney that United are happy with three strikes - he closes down a clearance from Schwarzer but doesn't quite block it.
    • 86' Fulham change: Another youngster, Wayne Brown, on for Gera.
    • 83' United seem happy with their three goals. Fulham would be happy to only concede that many at the present time.
    • 80' Fulham change: Robert Milsom on for Murphy.
    • 80' First Rooney then Ronaldo caught offside. The latter gestures across the pitch at the linesman.
    • 76' Fulham have extra players on the right but lack the urgency and will to put their rivals to the sword - Davies giving away a free-kick from a promising position.
    • 73' Big penalty shout for Fulham - turned down!! Davies's cross struck Vidic at the top of the arm.
    • 71' Dacourt off target with a strike at goal.
    • 69' United change: Darron Gibson on for Carrick.
    • 67' Fulham change: Olivier Dacourt, back in English football, for Pantsil.
    • 67' Zamora again close to ending United's streak of clean sheets!! A volleyed Davies shot was not cleared properly by Vidic and the striker did brilliantly to turn and screw a shot just wide of the far post with Dutchman Van der Sar, playing against one of his former clubs, beaten.
    • 65' Ronaldo sparks an attack as he finds Tevez; his quick pass for Rooney down the right ultimately wins a corner. Vidic heads over from the kick.
    • 63' GOAL FOR UNITED!! 3-0!! ROOOOOOOOOONEY!!!! A long cross to the right side of the penalty box is controlled and centred by Park - and it is none other than Wayne who arrives to smash home from six yards.
    • 62' Another change for United: O'Shea has a knock and is replaced at right-back by Jonny Evans.
    • 61' United change: On comes the golden boy Rooney for Berbatov. The England man's return is hailed by the home faithful.
    • 60' Evra backheels off to Ronaldo, who comes inside and shoots high and wide. Wayward from the Portuguese.
    • 57' Ronaldo streaks down the left, hacked down by Pantsil. A clear yellow card - Pantsil must be frustrated as perhaps the one man prepared to attack for the away side.
    • 56' Scholes with some clever movement of the ball 20 yards out to feed Berbatov, whose rifled strike is tipped over the top corner by Schwarzer.
    • 55' It is now 20 hours and 67 minutes since the home team conceded in the Premier League.
    • 53' Ronaldo standing over a free-kick from the right... it is difficult for Fulham to deal with and the lunging figure of Australian Schwarzer is pleased to see Aaron Hughes head behind.
    • 51' Ferdinand with a bizarre attempted clearance, bailed out by Carrick. Dempsey was hovering.
    • 50' Rio Ferdinand finally gets a mention as the Cottagers show some attacking intent... and soon after they win a corner!!
    • 47' Park with a run at the heart of the Fulham defence. His pass through seems set to run out but Schwarzer reckons it got a nick off someone and slides along the by-line to almost tap it back to Ronaldo!! He gets away with it.
    • 46' The second half underway, with United now attacking the goal to our right.
    • - No changes at the break.
    • 45+2' The first half comes to a close. Fulham are not on the same level as their opponents, who could be four or five up.
    • 45+1' Ronaldo whips it in and Berbatov nods home all alone!! It is ruled out for offside - he was a fraction off.
    • 45' Ronaldo wins a free-kick on the right level with the edge of the penalty area as Dempsey becomes frustrated.
    • 43' Scholes pings a grass-cutter towards the bottom corner which Schwarzer gets down to stop before holding well under threat from Berbatov.
    • 41' Pantsil all alone as he comes forward on the right. He does well to win a throw-in - Fulham no longer looking likely of scoring a first goal against United in 14 games.
    • 39' Ronaldo with some silky skills to bamboozle Hangeland. Rooney has missed seven matches with his hamstring strain and will get on at some stage, according to Alex Ferguson.
    • 37' The match is becoming something of an exercise in attacking movement for the leaders. And that is to their credit: Fulham have been hard to break down under Hodgson.
    • 35' United have had seven attempts on goal already as they seek to go five points clear of Liverpool at the top. They will have played the same games.
    • 32' Tevez sends a ball across the penalty area where Berbatov arrives to tap... just past the post!! United look set for a rugby score here.
    • 30' GOAL NUMBER TWO FOR UNITED!! Scholes chipped a wonderful pass over the top for O'Shea to reach and toe-poke sideways - with Schwarzer coming out to meet the Irishman, Berbatov had just enough time to adjust his footing and score into the open goal.
    • 26' They try the Scholes corner again, but this time Gera reads it and chests the ball away to start a counter-attack... Park trips him near halfway and Andre Marriner's yellow card comes out for the first time.
    • 25' Park finds the head of Berbatov in the box; his effort is going over but Schwarzer tips it over anyway.
    • 24' United striker Berbatov plays in Tevez, who scores - but he went a fraction too early and is a yard offside.
    • 23' Ronaldo now on the left with space. He tries a pass to the feet of Park on the edge of the box but it is intercepted.
    • 22' Ronaldo cuts into the box and his shot is shipped around the post by Schwarzer, who is not having the greatest game so far tonight. He made the stop though, which is the main thing.
    • 20' Tevez needs to take the ball with him when he dribbles. The Red Devils players making different angles of runs at the Fulham defence.
    • 18' HOW DID THAT STAY OUT? Fulham keeper Schwarzer collided with one of his defenders as he sought to deal with a Ronaldo cross and Berbatov seemed to have all the goal to aim at... he took his time and his shot was eventually blocked on the line. He should have sneaked it inside the near post.
    • 17' Pantsil delivers a cross to the penalty spot where Zamora heads just wide of the far post!! Danger for the home side there...
    • 15' Fulham with space on the right, Simon Davies slipping in John Pantsil... the flag goes up. A wasted opportunity.
    • 12' GOAL FOR UNITED!! Paul Scholes with an absolute cracker, his first for 18 months!! A Carrick corner was floated straight to him 30 yards out and he volleyed it brilliantly; Mark Schwarzer mishandled it into the goal. But take nothing away from the strike, which was fabulous.
    • 11' Ronaldo again fed with a cross-field ball. He performs a couple of step-overs before winning a corner...
    • 10' Fulham back on the ball... manager Roy Hodgson will be annoyed to see it pumped long from the back and through to Edwin van der Sar.
    • 8' Ronaldo with a cheeky dinked pass inside for the advancing John O'Shea to fire over from the corner of the box.
    • 6' Man Utd beginning to pass the ball about now, leaving Fulham to chase. Chris Baird defends the latest attack, but it is a throw to United in an advanced position...
    • 4' Not a great start for the Hungarian, who is now receieving treatment after challenging for an aerial ball with iron-man Nemanja Vidic.
    • 3' Fulham passing the ball about but Gera gives it away; Michael Carrick sends Tevez free on the left and his ball inside almost finds Park Ji-Sung. Murphy furious with Gera.
    • 2' Cristiano Ronaldo immediately looks to speed down the flank outside Kallio, who gets a touch to concede a throw-in.
    • 1' The match underway at Old Trafford, with United in red white and black as always; Fulham in white shirts and black shorts kicking from left to right.
    • - Paul Konchesky and Andy Johnson have both failed to make it with their muscle strains, so Bobby Zamora leads the line ahead of Clint Dempsey. Toni Kallio plays at left-back. Zoltan Gera is in midfield alongside Danny Murphy, with Olivier Dacourt on the bench.
    • - Carlos Tevez starts then alongside Dimitar Berbatov, while we knew Wayne Rooney was on the bench.
    • - The teams are in: Man Utd: Van der Sar, O'Shea, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Ronaldo, Carrick, Scholes, Park, Berbatov, Tevez; Subs: Kuszczak, Rooney, Nani, Rafael Da Silva, Evans, Fletcher, Gibson. Fulham: Schwarzer, Pantsil, Hangeland, Hughes, Kallio, Baird, Gera, Murphy, Davies, Dempsey, Zamora; Subs: Zuberbuhler, Nevland, Dacourt, Gray, Milsom, Brown, Smalling.
    • - The action gets underway at 20:00 UK time - join us then for all the mud, sweat and tears.
    • - Welcome to eurosport.yahoo.co.uk's LIVE text commentary on Manchester United's Premier League match at home to Fulham.

  • Team Stats

    Manchester United Stats Fulham
    61% Possession 38%
    19 Shots 6
    7 Shots on target 0
    0 Saves 2
    11 Corners 2
    14 Fouls 7
    7 Offsides 2
    1 Yellow cards 1
    0 Red cards 0
    12 Tackles 14
    534 Accurate passes 313
    75 Bad passes 27

  • 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
    • Manchester United
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Edwin Van der Sar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 1 0
      5 Rio Ferdinand 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 34 1 0
      3 Patrice Evra 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 53 19 2
      22 John O'Shea 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 37 0 2
      15 Nemanja Vidic 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 73 10 0
      16 Michael Carrick 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 66 4 2
      18 Paul Scholes 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 88 11 3
      7 Cristiano Ronaldo 0 5 1 0 2 2 0 38 9 0
      13 Ji-sung Park 0 1 0 1 3 0 1 23 4 1
      9 Dimitar Berbatov 1 5 2 0 0 3 0 33 5 0
      32 Carlos Tevez 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 30 5 1
      21 Rafael Pereira da Silva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      24 Darren Fletcher 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      17 Luís Almeida da Cunha 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      23 Jonny Evans 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 1 0
      10 Wayne Rooney 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 11 5 0
      29 Tomasz Kuszczak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      28 Darron Gibson 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 14 0 1
    • Fulham
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Mark Schwarzer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0
      18 Aaron Hughes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 0 0
      34 Chris Baird 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 2 1
      33 Toni Kallio 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 25 3 3
      4 John Paintsil 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 22 0 1
      5 Brede Hangeland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 2 0
      13 Danny Murphy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36 6 1
      23 Clint Dempsey 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 17 4 4
      25 Simon Davies 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 30 0 1
      11 Zoltan Gera 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 44 2 1
      9 Bobby Zamora 0 2 0 5 3 1 0 21 4 0
      16 Olivier Dacourt 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 16 2 2
      28 Robert Milsom 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 0
      10 Erik Nevland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      30 Wayne Brown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
      37 Chris Smalling 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      19 Pascal Zuberbühler 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      17 Julian Gray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 73' Big penalty shout for Fulham - turned down!! Davies's cross struck Vidic at the top of the arm.
    • 67' Zamora again close to ending United's streak of clean sheets!! A volleyed Davies shot was not cleared properly by Vidic and the striker did brilliantly to turn and screw a shot just wide of the far post with Dutchman Van der Sar, playing against one of his former clubs, beaten.
    • 63' GOAL FOR UNITED!! 3-0!! ROOOOOOOOOONEY!!!! A long cross to the right side of the penalty box is controlled and centred by Park - and it is none other than Wayne who arrives to smash home from six yards.
    • 56' Scholes with some clever movement of the ball 20 yards out to feed Berbatov, whose rifled strike is tipped over the top corner by Schwarzer.
    • 45+1' Ronaldo whips it in and Berbatov nods home all alone!! It is ruled out for offside - he was a fraction off.
    • 32' Tevez sends a ball across the penalty area where Berbatov arrives to tap... just past the post!! United look set for a rugby score here.
    • 30' GOAL NUMBER TWO FOR UNITED!! Scholes chipped a wonderful pass over the top for O'Shea to reach and toe-poke sideways - with Schwarzer coming out to meet the Irishman, Berbatov had just enough time to adjust his footing and score into the open goal.
    • 24' United striker Berbatov plays in Tevez, who scores - but he went a fraction too early and is a yard offside.
    • 18' HOW DID THAT STAY OUT? Fulham keeper Schwarzer collided with one of his defenders as he sought to deal with a Ronaldo cross and Berbatov seemed to have all the goal to aim at... he took his time and his shot was eventually blocked on the line. He should have sneaked it inside the near post.
    • 17' Pantsil delivers a cross to the penalty spot where Zamora heads just wide of the far post!! Danger for the home side there...
    • 12' GOAL FOR UNITED!! Paul Scholes with an absolute cracker, his first for 18 months!! A Carrick corner was floated straight to him 30 yards out and he volleyed it brilliantly; Mark Schwarzer mishandled it into the goal. But take nothing away from the strike, which was fabulous.
    • - Welcome to eurosport.yahoo.co.uk's LIVE text commentary on Manchester United's Premier League match at home to Fulham.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Andre Marriner

  • Manchester United

    Manager: Alex Ferguson

    Captain: Rio Ferdinand

    Starting line-up

    • E. van der Sar
    • J. O'Shea Substitution Out (62′)
    • R. Ferdinand
    • N. Vidic
    • P. Evra
    • C. Ronaldo
    • M. Carrick Substitution Out (69′)
    • P. Scholes Goal
    • J. Park Yellow Card
    • C. Tevez
    • D. Berbatov Goal Substitution Out (61′)

    Subs

    • T. Kuszczak
    • W. Rooney Substitution In61′ Goal
    • D. Fletcher
    • .. Nani
    • D. Gibson Substitution In69′
    • J. Evans Substitution In62′
    • R. Da Silva

    Injured

    • G. Neville
    • O. Hargreaves
    • W. Brown
    • O. Anderson

    Suspended

    None

  • Fulham

    Manager: Roy Hodgson

    Captain: Danny Murphy

    Starting line-up

    • M. Schwarzer
    • J. Paintsil Yellow Card Substitution Out (67′)
    • B. Hangeland
    • A. Hughes
    • T. Kallio
    • C. Baird
    • D. Murphy Substitution Out (80′)
    • Z. Gera Substitution Out (86′)
    • S. Davies
    • C. Dempsey
    • B. Zamora

    Subs

    • P. Zuberbuehler
    • O. Dacourt Substitution In67′
    • W. Brown Substitution In86′
    • J. Gray
    • E. Nevland
    • R. Milsom Substitution In80′
    • C. Smalling

    Injured

    • D. Etuhu

    Suspended

    None

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