There are still life for for Young Manutd side after Besiktas match. The critics only care about the result but not really care about how Manutd controlled the match in the game against Besiktas. Only luck brings Manutd down in that match!!
However, early today… Darren Gibson prove that he is ready to be The Next Paul Scholes. His marvelous double strike that actually reminds me to Paul Scholes brings Manutd into League Cup semi final.(buttttt…. its actually more like Lampard rather than Scholes..hehehe).
With Arsenal and Chelsea also in the hunt of semi final spots… this year League Cup will be more meaningful to be won!!
Man United midfielder Darron Gibson struck twice in the first half in a rematch of last season’s final that was won by United in a penalty shootout.
“It was a good team performance following last week. We bounced back and the young lads did well,” Gibson said. “We didn’t go out to try and prove anything. Sometimes you have bad days and today was a good day.”
Anderson was the creator of the 17th-minute opening goal, surging forward before cutting inside to lay the ball into the path of Gibson, whose low shot crept into the corner of the net.
The second came at the end of a flowing move started by Park Ji-sung and continued by Dimitar Berbatov, who picked out Danny Welbeck and played a one-two with Gibson. The midfielder struck high into the net from the edge of the area.
“The movement and working off the ball was good – and a terrific finish,” United manager Alex Ferguson said. “Gibson and Anderson did very well in the middle of the park. We’re two games away from Wembley, that’s good. We’ll enjoy the semifinal and these lads will play again.”
Ferguson’s priorities are the Champions League and Premier League, and so the 67-year-old Scot gave many of his younger players the chance to gain first-team experience.
“We are gaining as a club because they are getting the chance to play in these matches,” Ferguson said. “They are all definitely getting better.”
But Spurs manager Harry Redknapp, whose side is third in the Premier League just behind United, deployed a strong lineup.
“I am very disappointed. You are never going to get a better opportunity than we did tonight,” Redknapp said.
