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Originally Posted by Allybabba22
Great game last night, Thought Utd were brilliant for 30mins in the first half, But after that it was all Chelsea and how they did not win that match I will never know, IMO the better team lost last night but thats football...
Also thought the melee at the end spoiled the game a bit, I did not like what Tevez done, It was ok to put the ball out in the corner for the Chelsea throw after the injury, But I thought he was bang out of order calling on all the Utd players to put pressure on the throw in (Chelsea did not do that, They put the ball out in Utds half but never put any pressure on and it was thrown back to Van der Sar), It was really very unsportsmanlike and I hate seeing that in the game, Thats what sparked the shite at the end and ended up with the Drogba sending off (which he deserved for the slap)... He should be proud, Just typical Utd, Cheating bastards...5555555.. 
PS: Plus they lost me 50 euros  |
Sorry but I don't agree with that.
United completed dominated the 1st half other than a few spells here and there from Chelsea, UTD should have been 3-0 up and game over after 45 minutes but 2 clear chances were 'fluffed', maybe under pressure?, who knows. The chelsea equaliser was against run of play and a lucky double deflection but fair play to Lampard for doing what any decent midfielder would do, running in and taking a chance, that chance paid off but it has to be said, good fortune to come to him like that.
The 2nd half of course was the complete opposite of the first, with Chelsea having the same dominance Utd had 1st half, but Utd defended well enough to ride out the storm, you of course will tell me Chelsea hit the post and the upright in 2nd half/1st period extra time, but my answer to that is the match stats speaks for themselves and Utd had as many clear cut chances to score as Chelsea did. Extra time was open game encounter, unable to seperate the sides in my view.
The Chelsea manager claims the best team lost, and also claims Chelsea are the best team in the league this year which is not correct, Chelsea are strong indeed but the best football has most certainly been Arsenal for the sheer brilliance going forward, I would put Man U 2nd place for the stuff they have played throughout the season and Chelsea joint 3rd with Liverpool.
Statistic Manchester United Chelsea
Goals scored 1 1
Total shots 12 24
Shots on target 8 7
Ball possession 58% 42%
Corner kicks 5 8
Fouls committed 22 25
Offsides 1 2
Yellow cards 4 4
Red cards 0 1
Those stats are from wikipedia and speak for themselves like I said.
Now let's look at the route to the final, Man U arguably had the harder route having to knock out Roma and then facing by far the most surperior team in the competition BARCELONA, not one team comes even close to the magentic passing carousel of movement they produce, just dazzling.
This of course is similar to when Chelsea dealt with Barcelona under the wing of 'the special one' who I had a lot of respect for by the way, that paved the way for 'lucky lucky liverpool' who had the easier route and fluked their way past chelsea into the final, a final which AC Milan should have won, although I won't take anything away from Gerrard's maginficent performance and I happen to think Carragher is the best english defender we got.
You want to talk about cheating? What about the penalty shoot out in the Liverpool/Milan final, where the liverpool goalkeeper kept leaving his line and advancing toward the penalty taker, by as much as 2 metres in 1 case by the look of it, amazed me the ref let it go as that is clearly illegal in today's game, he actually should have recieved a warning and perhaps a yellow card for that, 'but that's football' as you quite rightly said.
This is how I would sum up the final last night which I think is a far more true assesment than your's.
An epic final which was a great advert for the English premiership, had everything you could want, blood, sweat, tears, handbags at dawn, great movement and energy from both sides in very hard conditions which was evident from the amount of cramp suffered. Even stevens and both teams completely equal by the end of 120 minutes.
Both deserved to win, neither deserved to lose and it's a shame they can't give winners medals and a cup to both in cases like last night.
I'm pleased Utd won but feel sympathy for the Chelsea players and fans at the same time.
Anyone's thoughts on what I just said, agree or disagree?