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Saturday October 18, 2008 Finished Old Trafford

4 - 0

Manchester United

  • Rooney 56’
  • Ronaldo 69’
  • Berbatov 71’
  • Nani 90’

West Bromwich

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    Manchester United sent out a message to their Premier League title rivals with a comfortable 4-0 victory over West Bromwich at Old Trafford. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Manchester United
    • West Bromwich
    • - Thanks for joining us today... there are two games to enjoy tomorrow, so make sure you return then! Bye for now.
    • 90'+1 There goes the whistle! And it's a comfortable win for United, who were inspired once again by Rooney!
    • 90' GOAL! Nani makes it four with a far post tap in after Rooney's slide-rule pass finds the substitute unmarked! 4-0!
    • 90' Miller's through again here! Strong run from the big man... in the end Giggs gets back to do enough just to put him off at the last! Van der Sar makes the save and West Brom have their first corner of the game!
    • 87' Miller! Oooh what a strike from the former Manchester City man! Inches wide of the post with Van der Sar beaten all ends up!
    • 83' Zuiverloon takes a knock to his leg... and has to go off for some treatment before he can return to action.
    • 79' Oooh! Neville bursts into the box and nearly fashions a shooting chance! Olsson gets there in the end and the danger passes.
    • 73' Rooney! Oooh! He gets on the end of another cross into the box, but this time he turns the ball wide of the target!
    • 72' West Brom make another change... Moore for Koren.
    • 71' GOAL! Berbatov makes it three! Nani centres and the Bulgarian simply sticks out a leg to divert the ball past Carson! He barely celebrates as United seal all three points!
    • 70' United make a change immediately after the goal... Park makes way for Nani.
    • 69' GOAL! Ronaldo doubles United's lead with a cool finish under the body of Carson after having been played in by a lovely through pass from Rooney! 2-0 and United should be comfortable now!
    • 67' Neville gets involved straight away, delivering a cross into the danger area which Donk has to be alert to deal with.
    • 66' Here comes Neville... and off goes Rafael - to a standing ovation.
    • 64' Gary Neville has got his training top off and looks like he's about to come on.
    • 62' The resulting corner falls to Ronaldo! He thinks about going down in the box but stays on his feet... and his decision means nothing comes of the attack.
    • 61' Rooney again forces Carson into action with a sharp first time drive from Giggs's through pass!
    • 57' That's been coming... as soon as United raised the tempo, you just felt a goal was on its way.
    • 56' GOAL! ROONEY! As soon as he's played in you know he has just one thing on his mind - scoring! He cuts inside Donk and fires a low shot past Carson to open the scoring! United one-nil up!
    • 55' Berbatov brings Carson into action again with a crisp strike from outside the box! This one's easy for the England international though...
    • 53' West Brom respond by making a change... off goes Bednar and on comes Ishamel Miller... any chants of 'City reject'? Can't hear any yet.
    • 52' United have upped the tempo a little now and the crowd respond!
    • 51' Lovely passing move from United! Until it reaches O'Shea, that is, whose control lets him down... the ball reaches Rooney nevertheless and the England man lets fly! Good save by Carson!
    • 49' Koren finds Brunt on the edge of the United area... but the Northern Irishman's effort is wild and flies well over the bar.
    • 48' Berbatov sends in a fast-paced cross towards Rooney! But for once, he can't make a good connection and the ball flies all the way through!
    • 47' No changes to tell you about.
    • 46' Back underway at Old Trafford!
    • 45'+1 There goes the half time whistle! And so far so good for West Brom!
    • 45' Berbatov feeds Ronaldo who fires a teasing cross right across the face of goal! Olsson doesn't know how to deal with it, but it runs all the way through without a United touch on it!
    • 44' Just one additional minute to be played at the end of the first half.
    • 41' Vidic gets up to meet the corner but his header is blocked!
    • 40' Big handball shout for United as the ball appears to hit Olsson's arm! Corner only, says referee Mark Halsey.
    • 39' Zuiverloon becomes the first player to go into the book for a challenge on Ronaldo.
    • 38' Donk piles into the back of Rooney... and he gets a free kick, a decision he applauds.
    • 37' That could have repercussions for Tuesday's Champions League clash with Celtic... it's a hamstring apparently...
    • 36' Here comes the switch... O'Shea for Evra.
    • 34' Evra's got a problem here... and it looks like John O'Shea is going to come on to replace the Frenchman.
    • 33' The ball somehow bounces all the way across the goalmouth from the corner before being turned behind for yet another!
    • 32' Berbatov wins another corner for United, but seems more concerned with his inability to have got the ball into the centre.
    • 31' Very cool header from Robinson back to his keeper under pressure from a host of United players following a bit of head tennis in the Albion box.
    • 29' Rooney and Ronaldo link up well... but the latter is forced a little too wide and his eventual shot on goal is blocked.
    • 27' Guess what? Straight into the wall...
    • 26' Ronaldo wins another free kick... this time as Olsson bangs into him... and there'll be another chance for him to have a pop at goal. 25 yards out, dead centre this one.
    • 25' Rooney! Oooh! Decent stop from Carson to deny Rooney a bullet header at the near post from Ronaldo's free kick!
    • 24' Ronaldo wins a free kick out on the left...
    • 23' Rooney has the ball in the back of the net but it won't count! Referee Mark Halsey adjudges the England man to have knocked Zuiverloon off the ball as he bore down on goal...
    • 21' Rafael steams up the wing past Park... he clearly doesn't like defending! The Brazilian ends up in the centre of midfield... Park will have to watch his back if United are not to be breached down the right hand side.
    • 19' Park breaks for United now! Olssoon lunges in on the Korean and must surely go into the book... he doesn't.
    • 18' Ronaldo shows off some nifty footwork... Zuiverloon doesn't really know what to do... but he does enough to put the United man off in the end and the move breaks down.
    • 16' Ronaldo leaps to meet Rooney's corner but it's over his head and West Brom clear their lines.
    • 15' United win a third corner of the game so far... Rooney takes it and soon wins a fourth as Greening heads behind.
    • 14' Here come West Brom though... Morrison feeds Brunt on the Baggies' left... he moves forward before firing a goalbound shot from 30 yards! Wrong option! Van der Sar gets well behind it and doesn't look fazed as he collects.
    • 12' It's all a bit flat at the moment... the crowd are hardly creating an atmosphere and the play on the pitch has done little to excite the fans so far.
    • 10' Berbatov looks for Park... and finds him with a lovely little clipped ball in... Park's first touch is decent, but Donk shepherds the ball back to Carson in the end.
    • 9' No, he's going to go for goal himself... straight into the wall and cleared by the Baggies.
    • 9' Park wins a free kick after a foul by Donk... and Ronaldo will have a change to put a decent ball into the West Brom box.
    • 8' Greening sends a free kick into the United box... Vidic reads it well though and leaves it to bounce out of play.
    • 7' Corner now to United... Rooney over it... but his effort fails to get past the near post and West Brom will be able to bring the ball forward.
    • 5' Ronaldo lets off the first shot on target of the day! It's easy for Carson though.... perhaps Ronaldo would have been better off looking for Park in the middle then?
    • 4' Fletcher mops up well in the centre of the park and he wins a polite round of applause for his efforts.
    • 3' Here goes Ronaldo on his first run forward of the day... but the Portuguese rather leaves the ball behind and the move breaks down.
    • 2' Rafael gets forward straight from the kick-off... he likes a foray forward, the 18-year-old.
    • 1' Here we go with today's final Premier League game! Underway at Old Trafford!
    • - With the three other members of the 'big four' winning this afternoon, the pressure is on United to take all three points off West Brom...
    • - Referee: Mark Halsey (Lancashire)
    • - And West Brom line-up like this: Carson, Zuiverloon, Donk, Olsson, Robinson, Morrison, Koren, Borja Valero, Greening, Brunt, Bednar - Subs: Kiely, Hoefkens, Cech, Barnett, Miller, MacDonald, Moore
    • - Here's United's starting XI: Van der Sar, Rafael Da Silva, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Ronaldo, Fletcher, Giggs, Park, Berbatov, Rooney - Subs: Kuszczak, Neville, Brown, Nani, O'Shea, Evans, Gibson
    • - The teams are in, and United will hand a debut to Brazilian youngster Rafael Da Silva.
    • - Hello and welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE coverage of today's late kick-off in Manchester!

  • Team Stats

    Manchester United Stats West Bromwich
    56% Possession 43%
    23 Shots 6
    9 Shots on target 2
    1 Saves 3
    16 Corners 1
    14 Fouls 11
    4 Offsides 2
    0 Yellow cards 1
    0 Red cards 0
    12 Tackles 26
    457 Accurate passes 330
    99 Bad passes 60

  • 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 8 0 0
      5 Rio Ferdinand 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 48 1 0
      3 Patrice Evra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 16 0
      21 Rafael Pereira da Silva 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 23 1 4
      15 Nemanja Vidic 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 30 5 2
      24 Darren Fletcher 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 66 13 1
      13 Ji-sung Park 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 19 2 2
      7 Cristiano Ronaldo 1 7 2 0 3 0 0 39 11 1
      11 Ryan Giggs 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 71 22 0
      9 Dimitar Berbatov 1 3 2 2 2 0 1 39 7 0
      10 Wayne Rooney 1 7 4 1 1 2 2 44 9 0
      22 John O'Shea 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 20 10 1
      17 Luís Almeida da Cunha 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 6 2 0
      29 Tomasz Kuszczak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      6 Wes Brown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      28 Darron Gibson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      2 Gary Neville 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 18 0 1
      23 Jonny Evans 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • West Bromwich
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      19 Scott Carson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 0
      30 Ryan Donk 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 1 3
      3 Paul Robinson 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 32 18 2
      22 Gianni Zuiverloon 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 23 0 8
      26 Jonas Olsson 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 22 1 2
      8 Jonathan Greening 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 66 5 4
      28 Borja Valero 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 50 8 3
      7 Robert Koren 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 32 5 0
      27 James Morrison 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 32 3 3
      11 Chris Brunt 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 31 12 1
      9 Roman Bednar 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 6 4 0
      5 Leon Barnett 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      4 Marek Cech 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      16 Luke Moore 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 8 0 0
      2 Carl Hoefkens 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      15 Sherjill MacDonald 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      1 Dean Kiely 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      10 Ishmael Miller 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 12 0 0

  • Summary

    • 90' GOAL! Nani makes it four with a far post tap in after Rooney's slide-rule pass finds the substitute unmarked! 4-0!
    • 90' Miller's through again here! Strong run from the big man... in the end Giggs gets back to do enough just to put him off at the last! Van der Sar makes the save and West Brom have their first corner of the game!
    • 87' Miller! Oooh what a strike from the former Manchester City man! Inches wide of the post with Van der Sar beaten all ends up!
    • 73' Rooney! Oooh! He gets on the end of another cross into the box, but this time he turns the ball wide of the target!
    • 71' GOAL! Berbatov makes it three! Nani centres and the Bulgarian simply sticks out a leg to divert the ball past Carson! He barely celebrates as United seal all three points!
    • 69' GOAL! Ronaldo doubles United's lead with a cool finish under the body of Carson after having been played in by a lovely through pass from Rooney! 2-0 and United should be comfortable now!
    • 61' Rooney again forces Carson into action with a sharp first time drive from Giggs's through pass!
    • 56' GOAL! ROONEY! As soon as he's played in you know he has just one thing on his mind - scoring! He cuts inside Donk and fires a low shot past Carson to open the scoring! United one-nil up!
    • 55' Berbatov brings Carson into action again with a crisp strike from outside the box! This one's easy for the England international though...
    • 51' Lovely passing move from United! Until it reaches O'Shea, that is, whose control lets him down... the ball reaches Rooney nevertheless and the England man lets fly! Good save by Carson!
    • 29' Rooney and Ronaldo link up well... but the latter is forced a little too wide and his eventual shot on goal is blocked.
    • 25' Rooney! Oooh! Decent stop from Carson to deny Rooney a bullet header at the near post from Ronaldo's free kick!
    • 23' Rooney has the ball in the back of the net but it won't count! Referee Mark Halsey adjudges the England man to have knocked Zuiverloon off the ball as he bore down on goal...

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Mark Halsey

  • Manchester United

    Manager: Alex Ferguson

    Captain: Ryan Giggs

    Starting line-up

    • E. van der Sar
    • R. Da Silva Substitution Out (66′)
    • N. Vidic
    • R. Ferdinand
    • P. Evra Substitution Out (36′)
    • D. Fletcher
    • R. Giggs
    • C. Ronaldo Goal
    • J. Park Substitution Out (70′)
    • W. Rooney Goal
    • D. Berbatov Goal

    Subs

    • G. Neville Substitution In66′
    • W. Brown
    • J. O'Shea Substitution In36′
    • T. Kuszczak
    • .. Nani Substitution In70′ Goal
    • D. Gibson
    • J. Evans

    Injured

    • P. Scholes
    • R. Possebon

    Suspended

    None

  • West Bromwich

    Manager: Tony Mowbray

    Captain: Jonathan Greening

    Starting line-up

    • S. Carson
    • G. Zuiverloon Yellow Card
    • R. Donk
    • J. Olsson
    • P. Robinson
    • R. Koren Substitution Out (72′)
    • V. Borja
    • J. Morrison
    • J. Greening
    • C. Brunt
    • R. Bednar Substitution Out (53′)

    Subs

    • D. Kiely
    • L. Moore Substitution In72′
    • M. Cech
    • I. Miller Substitution In53′
    • L. Barnett
    • S. MacDonald
    • C. Hoefkens

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None

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