29 April 2008

Match Review (Chelsea vs Man U)

Did the better team won? No! Chelsea was better in the first half, while Utd was better in the 2nd. Bad decisions by the referee and the assistant referee! Kick in the face was a foul and at least a yellow card, whether delibrate or not. Holding a player in the box preventing him from attacking the ball is a penalty (it was given to Gerrard when the ball was not even played in). Several fouls against Utd players were not penalised. The penalty? It was more of 20-80 & Chelsea got the 20 (worse handball was not given for Uts during the Blackburn game). The referee had gone from bad to worse and include those from Europe games as well.



Van der Sar (6.5): Did well, but distribution of ball was poor.

Brown (5.5): Could not match Drogba's strength.

Ferdinand (7): Held defence well on most occasions.

Vidic (5.5): Went to hospital again, missed dearly in the game.

Silvestre (7): Best performace by him since several years ago.

Nani (5): No threat, decision-makings were generally poor.

Fletcher (6.5): Industrous and good efforts.

Carrick (6): Defended well, but there was no one for him to pass forward!

Anderson (5): Over-hyped after his first few impressive games for Utd. Had been not playing well since.

Giggs (5.5): Average game, time to retire soon.

Rooney (6): Scored well on a lucky break. Looks unfir throughout the game.



Hargreaves (6) (sub Vidic 14) Good cover at right back.

Ronaldo (6) (sub Rooney 63) Good shot cleared off line. Held back by Ballack in the penalty box, but referee was blinded.

O'Shea (sub Anderson 65) Disciplined role 5

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