Manchester City versus Manchester United – Community Shield: First half review (Part 1)
Manchester United took on Manchester City at the Wembley stadium in London to kick off the English league season with the community shield encounter. Both the teams took to the field with their first choice line ups as Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752
Ferguson decided to start with United’s new goalkeeping acquisition http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rio-Ferdinand-c31173 in central defence. Patrice
Evra was deployed at the left back berth.
In midfield, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dimitar-Berbatov-c11254
in attack with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Carlos-c8346 Tevez was left out of the squad completely.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vincent-Kompany-c36184,
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Patrice-Evra-c29231 was brought down thanks to a mistimed tackle by Richards.
Ashley Young took the opportunity to deliver from the ensuing set piece but the former Aston Villa man was unable to bypass the first line of defence in Manchester City’s penalty area as Vincent Kompany headed the ball away with
relative ease. In the 4th minute, a reckless clearance inside the Manchester City penalty area meant that the ball fell kindly for Ashley Young whose shot was hit straight at http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Joe-Hart-c18699 who made no mistake in gathering in the tame effort.
In the 5th minute, City responded with their first concrete offensive move of the afternoon as Kolarov carried the ball forward down the left hand side of the Blues’ attack. The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lazio-c39775 wing back whipped in a wonderful
cross towards Edin Dzeko inside the Manchester United penalty area but Rio Ferdinand read the flight of the ball perfectly and cleared the cross away even though he was under pressure from the Manchester City forward. In the 6th minute, City pressurized
the Manchester United defence into giving away a corner kick as Vidic headed away Milner’s cross which was originally intended for Dzeko.
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