Manchester United Fan In Malaysia

I don’t understand why the media give too much attention for Community Shield this season. When Manutd barely scored in last season Community Shield…nobody said that Portsmouth will fight for the title!! But…why this season when United scored 2 goals…dominated in the 1st half although without Van der Sar & Vidic…and people keeps talking about this is the end of United and everybody said that..Liverpool might win this season Premier League. Hahahahaha.. what a sick joke!! Chelsea needs a referee to make it 2-2 while United play it fair to get the result.

I watched the match..losing is hurt but I don’t think that I am worried with the result. It’s a good match for United especially in the first half. Chelsea as expected were quite slow and old… United players can easily take the ball from their leg either from the back..from side..or in front. Nothing to worry…but in the 2nd half…United players look tired and can’t continue playing the same match as 1st half. No more quick move..quick tackle..and its cost United dearly.

Afterall…it’s only a friendly match & I am feeling the same as United losing the Audi Cup against Bayern in penalty.

Hopefully… Manutd is ready for the start of season against Birmingham!! A goal feast will make everybody shut up and hopefully United can do it. Micheal Owen’s goal will make it sweeter!!

Let’s the game beginnnn….

Chelsea 2 United 2 (4-1 on pens)

The Community Shield was prised from United’s grasp in an enthralling clash at Wembley, a game that required a penalty shoot-out to separate two evenly-matched sides. Despite this defeat, 4-1 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in normal time, the Reds’ performance provides plenty of promise for the season ahead.

Nani had given United the lead with a long-range effort after just ten minutes, then Ricardo Carvalho equalised shortly after half-time. But in a competition that used to be called the Charity Shield, there was little charity in Chelsea’s second. As Patrice Evra lay prostrate on the ground after a bad Michael Ballack challenge, referee Chris Foy neglected to stop play and Frank Lampard scored what everyone thought was the winner. That was until substitute Ryan Giggs picked out Wayne Rooney’s run, and the Reds forward expertly finished to send the tie to the lottery of spot-kicks.

A very good match considering in this kind of tournament.. every match is more like friendly match rather than the actual competition. Bayern Munich
Were the better team in the first half…but when second half started… the German powerhouse required nerves of steel to fend off Manutd attack in front of a sell-out crowd of 69,000 at their Allianz Arena after United strikers Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen missed great chances in the second half to win the match.

Bayern enjoyed the better of the first half, in which Mario Gomez and Dimitar Berbatov both hit the woodwork, but United then had the better opportunities after the interval – only for Rooney and Owen to fail to beat Bayern goalkeeper Michael Rensing in one-on-one situations.

The tackle on new signing Micheal Owen by Bayern’s Martin Demichelis was a major scare for Manutd fan and Sir Alex. If it had been a competitive match Demichelis would have received a red card. Then, the striker stayed on but was left holding his ankle as he tried to run the problem off.
He eventually went on to play until the 78th minute when he was replaced by Wayne Rooney.

Final score….
Both team failed to score in normal time and at the end..the epic penalty showdown has been won by Bayern Munich 7-6.

Penalties

Ryan Giggs 1-1 Alexander Baumjohann
Anderson 2-2 Edson Braafheid
Nani 3-3 Hamit Altintop
Patrice Evra 3-3 Danijel Pranjic
Wayne Rooney 4-4 Jose Ernesto Sosa
Darren Fletcher 5-5 Andreas Ottl
Paul Scholes 6-6 Holger Badstuber
Jonathan Evans 6-7 Daniel Van Buyten

Line Ups

Bayern Munich:
Rensing; Lahm (Pranjic 62), Demichelis (van Buyten 62), Breno (Badstuber 62), Braafheid; van Bommel (Altintop 46); Tymoshchuk (Ottl 77), Schweinsteiger (Sosa 62), Baumjohann; Gomez (Gorlitz 62), Muller (Sene 77)
Sub not used: Butt

Manchester United:
van der Sar; Fletcher, Ferdinand (Cathcart 69), Evans, Evra; Gibson (Valencia 63), Scholes, Giggs, Nani; Owen (Rooney 78), Berbatov (Anderson 78)
Subs not used: Foster, Park, Tosic, Carrick, Fabio, O’Shea, Macheda

* All images courtesy of Manutd.com

Interesting match if we compared with the match against Malaysia. This match is the toughest match in Asia Tour so far.

The 64,000 capacity Korean crowd had been baying for an appearance from their hero since he first emerged for the warm-up, but they would have to wait for a fifteen-minute cameo late on as the midfielder was named on a ten-man bench.

Final result : FC Seoul 2 Manchester United 3

Team Line-ups

United: Kuszczak (Van der Sar 46); O’Shea, Ferdinand, Brown, Evra (Fabio 74); Fletcher (Gibson 46), Anderson (Nani 61), Carrick (Park 74), Giggs (Scholes 61); Rooney (Berbatov 61), Macheda (Owen 61).
Subs not used: Evans, Tosic.

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