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After Sundays lacklustre game against Reading, you would hope United would have improved their form for this evenings game against Portsmouth... A highly anticipated Tevez appearence was enough to get the majority of fans excited, surely this game we would win easily? The first 10 minutes showed Tevez highly charged and ready for a tough game, though he looked extremely lonely upfront. On the 15th minute, Nani showed his excellent close ball skills and cleverly flicked the ball onto Paul Scholes who volleyed the ball into the left hand corner bringing his total premier league goals to 96 taking him past Ruud Van Nistelrooy to be United's top premier league scoring player. All was looking good, but the remainder of the first half would be filled with non-eventful attempts. On the 53rd minute, United were struck a huge blow when Matthew Taylor crossed on a break for Portsmouth and Benjani struck his header past Edwin van der Sar, who hadn't really seen any action until then. Portsmouth with new found confidence seemed to pick up their game a little and Benjani seemed to be all over the United half, luckily nothing become of Pompey's highly energised moments. United would have further chances when Ronaldo's curling cross on 67 minutes found Giggs eight yards out, but his volley was to be saved by James. The Red Army hadn't given up and were given further hope when, with 7 minutes to go, Sulley Muntari was sent off for a second bookable offence for a foul on Michael Carrick. Sadly Ronaldo would soon go down the same route after headbutting somebody in the box before a United corner. Ronaldo missing the next 3 matches was a terrible end to a fairly awful start to the season, with the Manchester Derby at Old Trafford next match, we can't afford for the bad luck to continue! Discuss this article on the forums. (0 posts) Write Comment (0 Comments) |
