WOOHOO!! Man United kicked off to a great start in the new season, romping to a marvelous 3-1 victory over Chelsea in the contention for the Community Shield. Finally, the Reds were showing some teamwork. Last season, Wayne Rooney was the sole striker and the whole team seemed to consist of only 1 player. Once he slumped, the whole team slumped.
The match was extremely exciting and kept on see-sawing. After only eight minutes, Paul Scholes had the first opportunity for Man Utd from Valencia's right-wing cross, an an effort which blazed just over the crossbar. If the shot had went in, Chelsea would have been plenty embarrassed, man!! Too bad, but never mind. They were embarrassed anyway-3-1 loss, what a scoreline!! What's more for the team who bagged the F.A cup and the EPL last season.
Anyways, there were plenty of chances for each side. Nicholas Anelka's effort stung the hands of Van der Sar, Rooney could'nt tuck his shot in properly after being released by Scholes, and Ivanovic, trying to clear the ball with a diving header, nearly headed a Michael Owen cross into his own net,-what a joker!!
In the 41st minute the deadlock was finally broken by Valencia. Again, Scholes sent a 50 yard ball down the pitch for Rooney to chase and Rooney somehow managed to squeeze in a cross (cheekily) between john Terry's legs-shows how undeserving he is of the captain's armband after the sex scandal, even though that was quite long ago- for Valencia to smash into the goal.
However at the break Reds manager Fergie made some astonishing changes. He replaced Park Ji Sung with new signing Hernandez and Berbatov and Nani came on for Rooney and Owen. Surprising considering Berbatov's awful form last season and Nani just recovering from an injury. Anyway it yielded even more surprising results. Valencia, who gave Ashley Cole a torrid time and made him look like a tortoise, and I don;t mean in a good sense like the tortoise in Aesop's Fable, you know 'Slow and steady wins the race', yeah, chased O'Shea's flighted pass down the line and picked out Hernandez in the six-yard box. Hernandez was about to score when he tripped. The whole flew upwards while he fell forward, ball connected with head, and the former sailed into the net to make the score 2-0.
Chelsea grabbed a consolation when Van der Sar parried Sturridge's shot into Salomon Kalou's path. Kalou of course hammered the ball in.
However in the dying moments, the whole team worked together, passing to each other 17 times before Nani's flicked pass created space for Berbatov's sumptuous chip which ended the game 3-1 and broke Chelsea hearts, and no, I do NOT in the least feel sorry for them.
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