Manchester United Came On Top at Old Trafford: Football News
Chelsea has long aspired to the Champions' League crown, an aspiration which has become something of an obsession for Roman Abramovich, Chelsea’s owner. His dreams were dashed again by an English team.
The first leg went Manchester United’s way with a score line of 1-0. They won the second leg as well by 2-1, thus winning the tie on an aggregate of 3-1.
Carlo Ancelotti has not been happy with the current http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 squad and is reluctant in owning it. He might not get another chance as he is likely to be fired. Another failure at the European stage will not sit well with Abramovich,
who has fired people like Jose Mourinho and Luiz Felipe Scolari in the past.
Everything went United's way, who took the lead in the game through Javier Hernandez. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Park-Ji-Sung-c29147 responded within a minute to win
the match for his side. Manchester United also had a goal disallowed for marginal offside. United outclassed Chelsea once again and booked their berth in the semi final.
Before this match, Carlo Ancelotti was unsure about the inclusion of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fernando-Torres-c13707 in the starting line-up. However, the Spaniard did get his place as Didier Drogba was kept on the bench. Torres looked shaky in front of the
goal and was in no position to threaten Manchester's defence. He was substituted after half time.
Ancelotti also kept John Mikel Obi on the bench as Ramires made his way into the starting line-up. This was another poor decision as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ramires-c30523 broke under pressure and picked up two yellow cards in quick succession.
Sir Alex Ferguson rested some of his players for the game against Manchester City on the weekend. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Antonio-Valencia-c6345 was kept as a substitute, leaving a place for Park Ji-Sung in the starting XI. Hernandez took the place of Dimitar
Berbatov. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wes-Brown-c36791 was also constrained to the bench. Nevertheless, these were some tough decisions but they paid off in the end as both the scorers for United were the unlikely starters in the game.
The combination of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ryan-Giggs-c31985 made a brilliant run from the right and fired a low
cross towards the centre of six-yard box. Hernandez was present on the other end and he did not miss.
The introduction of Drogba, in the second half, seemed to change the visitors' fortune. They looked more potent in attack and were more enthusiastic. Everything went black for the Blues when Ramires was shown a red with 20 minutes
still on the clock. However, Drogba refused to give scoring seven minutes later. In the end, United managed to hold on to their lead and will play either http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 Milan or Schalke in the semi-finals of the tournament.
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