West Bromwich Albion versus Manchester United: First half review – English Premier League
Manchester United took on West Bromwich Albion in their first league encounter of the season away at the Hawthorns stadium. West Bromwich Albion were dealt a blow right before the start of the match as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Peter-Odemwingie-c29794 was considered
unfit to start against the English league champions so Roy Hodgson went with a front two partnership of West Bromwich’s summer transfer window signing Shane Long and their veteran forward Tchoyi. Tchoyi played just behind Long as West Bromwich lined up in
a formation that looked like a 4-4-1-1 when they had the ball at their feet.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ben-Foster-c7445 started in goal for the Baggies; the former Manchester United goalkeeper was bought by Roy Hodgson in the transfer window from the relegated English Premier League side Birmingham City. On the other hand, Manchester
United also started with their new goalkeeper http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fabio-c13152 da Silva at left back.
United’s midfield also had a youthful look to it as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Daniel-c9879 Welbeck was given the nod ahead
of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dimitar-Berbatov-c11254 as he accompanied Wayne Rooney in the offensive end of the field. Manchester United started the match strongly and they made their opponents pay for their shoddy defending at the back in the 13th minute when Ashley Young and
Wayne Rooney combined to a fantastic effect.
Rooney back heeled the ball to Young before collecting it back from his compatriot at the edge of the West Bromwich penalty area. The English striker then had the vision to blast the ball into the bottom right hand corner with
his left foot, past the despairing Ben Foster as Manchester United took at the lead straight away at the Hawthorns stadium. In the 22nd minute, Luis Nani had the chance to add to Manchester United’s lead as he was played in by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 after
Daniel Welbeck played the Englishman in. However http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nani-c27299’s eventual finish was skied over the bar as the score line remained at 1-0 to United.
Nonetheless, West Bromwich slowly played their way back into the match and got their equalizing goal before the half time break courtesy of an error by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-de-Gea-c10463. Shane Long found space inside the Manchester United penalty area
and fired a low shot into the bottom right hand corner of the Manchester United goal as the ball went underneath the Spanish shot stopper. Regardless, the first half soon came to an end shortly after with the score line level at 1-1.
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