Marching from first game!!
That too without Rooney and Ronaldo.For me the bad part was that i missed the first half and also the game was aired at Sony PiX which ruined my mood with ESPN.Always enjoyed BPL matches over there.

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United were fabulous for second half,first half i missed.Tevez and Giggs were working pretty good with each other.Apart from being Man of the Match and scorer from penalty shoot out Tevez did exceptionally great in keeping tempo of the game.There were times when both sides were dulled and hardly anyone was getting interested in slides or tackles.But Tevez turned the game on with fierce runs and strikes.Had he been out of the game this match wouldn’t have been qualified as Shield match.
With Fletcher as Ronaldo was a good site.At least this proves that we have his substitute.In this 3 months till Ronaldo will be off we can use him as a winger.Fletcher still needs more experience.His place can be changed if he works out with his crossing and long run ability.As such the mid is too saturated for United and will take real deal with yourself to get in there.Fletcher still needs a lot of pace and strength to match or out class Ronaldo.Will take time but he can be there.
Our Center Mid, Carrick and Scholes .Playing since long time now they have worked out their ways for when one stays up and when the other stays down.They both are the fusion of an aggressive defender and a fierce mid-fielder.Both are awesome in breaking counter attacks and short quick through balls.For now we can completely rely on both of these.Though we still have Anderson and Hargo who too can go well in that position.But both will be out for quite a long time.Hargo’s consistency is scary i mean with his injury past.Anderson though has to get his composure back to fight for spot
Also nice to see was our new promotion F.Cambpell.The kid was good.Atleast for the time by till we don’t get any strikers he can work out well for us.

This Community shield has turned me on cant wait to get the Premier League started.

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The Community Shield delivered exactly what every ManU fan expected: a win against Chelsea.
Sadly our trophy win wasn’t as exciting as we’d have loved it to be, but penalties decided the tie.

ManU dominated the first half, with fast football in the midfield and a well organized position game. The Chelsea midfield was almost invisible during all of the first 45 minutes and the Reds ruled. Chelsea hardly created any chance, actually they hardly created any good midfield combination. We covered the whole midfield and except two breakthrough chances Chelsea was rather invisible. During the first 30 minutes our best man definitely was Patrice Evra, and it was him in the 34rd minute who, after a quick 1-2 with Ronaldo, delivered the decisive assist on Giggs left foot. Giggs terminated without hesitating in the right upper corner. View Giggs’ goal here.

For the next 10 minutes ManU continued to control the midfield, but a brilliant pass of Ashley Cole launched Malouda who scored, after arguably having pulled down Rio Ferdinand. 1-1 Was the score when both teams left the pitch.

After the break Chelsea became more prominent in the game, but not because they controlled more, rather because the number of bad passes by ManU started to accumulate. Ronaldo’s chance in the early minutes of the second half, brilliantly saved by Chech, was not representative of our game at all.
Even after Mikael Silvestre was changed for Nani, ManU couldn’t really take advantage of the game.
ManU slightly kept control of the game, but mostly because of the weak performance of Chelsea.

The scoreboard locked at 1-1 after 90 minutes lead to penalties and this would become the moment of one of the most questioned players lately: Edwin Van Der Sar.
Edwin saved the first three Chelsea penalties, taken resp. by Pizarro, Lampard and Shaun Wright-Philips. Rio Ferdinand and Michael Carrick both converted perfectly, leaving the honours of scoring the decisive penalty to Wayne Rooney.

Chelsea V Manchester United Community shield 2007 penalties

Even though Jose could once more realize how little a club Chelsea is, today’s game learned us that there still is a long way to go and we still have to improve on almost every line. Defense, midfield and even the attack will have to work lots to integrate Carlos Tevez’s style in our game. Nothing is won yet, but it all looks great so far.

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Tags:   Community Shield · Giggs · VDS