Chelsea v Manchester United – Second half review: UEFA Champions League - Part 1
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Michael-Essien-c25294 led their attack in the 46th minute, but Park Ji Sung brought the Ghanaian midfielder to the ground
with an ill-timed sliding challenge. The referee spotted this infringement as Chelsea was awarded a free kick. In the 49th minute, Rafael da Silva and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Yuri-Zhirkov-c37683 down
the right hand side of Manchester United’s attack.
The Brazilian full back was left as the worse off man in his collision with Drogba, as he was taken off the field for some medical treatment. In the 51st minute, Chelsea had another glorious chance to equalize at the Stamford Bridge, when Patrice
Evra’s slip down the left hand side allowed Drogba to regain control of the ball. The former Marseille goal-scorer, whipped in an accurate cross towards Ramirez, who astonishingly missed the target with his header from around about six yards out inside the
Manchester United penalty area.
In the 52nd minute, Rafael da Silva left the field for the Red Devils’ due to his knee injury which, he sustained in his earlier clash with Drogba, and was replaced by Luis http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Antonio-Valencia-c6345 to a right wing
back position. In the 55th minute, the away crowd at Stamford Bridge thought that Manchester United had doubled their advantage after Rooney had the ball in the back of the Chelsea net, following a skilful one-two passing routine with Javier Hernandez.
However, the linesman had raised his flag on the far side as Hernandez was in an offside position when he had collected the pass from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 in the first place, thus the goal was disallowed by the match official. In the 57th minute, Chelsea
pushed onwards once again as this time http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Frank-Lampard-c14097 delivered a cross from the home team’s corner kick.
Lampard’s cross found Drogba on the far post who unleashed a brilliant bicycle kick attempt at Edwin Van Der Sar’s goal. Unfortunately, for Ancelotti’s team, Drogba’s effort went wide of the mark as the score line remained at 0-1 to the visitors. In the
60th minute, Ramirez became the second Chelsea player to go into the referee’s book after Zhirkov was shown the first yellow card of the match in the first half for his foul on Hernandez. The Brazilian midfielder was duly shown a yellow card due
to his late sliding challenge on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Patrice-Evra-c29231.
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