United vs. Arsenal Live!
I'm a bit goal starved after yesterday's CL semi-final, so I'm looking for a good old fashioned Premiership goalfest today.Join me from 2:45 EST for the big one!
posted by The Blue Devil @ 2:15 PM
Lakenheath Old Boys
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
I'm a bit goal starved after yesterday's CL semi-final, so I'm looking for a good old fashioned Premiership goalfest today.Join me from 2:45 EST for the big one!
Lakenheath Old Boys
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
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144 Comments:
I am here and very nervous!!
Arsenal team: Almunia, Sagna, Toure, Silvestre, Gibbs, Song Billong, Diaby, Walcott, Fabregas, Nasri, Adebayor. Subs: Fabianski, Eduardo, Denilson, Ramsey, Djourou, Bendtner, Eboue.
Man Utd team: Van der Sar, O'Shea, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Fletcher, Carrick, Anderson, Ronaldo, Tevez, Rooney. Subs: Foster, Berbatov, Giggs, Park, Scholes, Rafael Da Silva, Evans.
Afternoon, Dave! What did you do? Leave the kids with a sub?
Tevez and Roon up front, Berba on the bench. Your thoughts?
23 games unbeaten in the Champions League
United have that record. Long may it continue
Hey Bob, glad to see Tevez on the field. We looked might dangerous with all three of them on
Giggs not on the field to make appearance number 800
that would be MIGHTY dangerous
I've got a MyP2P Ustream of ESPN2 up and looking good. I think I'll stick with that one since you're probably watching the same coverage.
1932: Players who can miss the second leg if they get booked tonight: Wayne Rooney, Patrice Evra, Samir Nasri, Alex Song, Abou Diaby.
OR
could miss the Final if booked next time
Here comes the teams!
Teams coming out!!!
COME ON UNITED!!
Believe!!!!
Roon is the key figure in that group. Should he sacrifice a yellow tonight if things are going well?
FIVE English starters
Even better - I found a Sky Sports stream. Hope it continues to work. I'm sick of Tommy.
Fergie's working over time on the gum tonight. And we're off!
We're off
Oooh, a looping header from Roon nearly creeps into the far corner.
Rooney almost scores after 90 seconds!!
What are you watching?
I have the TV on and a Sky on atdhe
OOOH, a slip and Ron cracks it a across the box
Great start!
What was Gibbs playing at there! Ronaldo in but wastes the opportunity.
Actually, on the replay it was a great save from Almunia from a Sagna header rather than off Roon. Would have been an o.g. Great save!
All United so far. Song hacks Ronaldo. And Nasri has kicked out. Bollocking from the ref.
Nasri will have to watch himself now. A yellow would put him out of the second leg.
I've got Sky on one of the JustinTV streams. It's pretty good.
Almost a great pass by Roon
My stream just gave out. Famous last words. Any ideas?
United have slowed down a little
Have the Arse weathered the storm?
What's happening?
Ron sets up Tevez
Weak shot
He could have gone back to Tev
I've got a Spanish language stream up with bad sound on Atdhe. Best I can do right now. I don't want to miss too much of the match.
Walcott got round the back there but couldn't find anyone with his ball in.
Arsenal get the ball in the box for the first time but a naff cross by Theo
These teams know each other far too well. That's one of the weaknesses of this tourney. The players must be thinking - "Bah, not you lot again!"
O'Shea's got the close control of a backyard shed.
Michael Carrick - ugliest man in football today?
I want goals! I want goals! I want goals!
Are you in the bog, Dave?
atdhe's third link is ESPN
What a save by Almunia off of Tev
BUGGER
Ooh, point blank save by Almunia from Tevez there! The Spaniard's keeping the Arse in this one.
YES!!!
JOHN O'SHEA??!!!!?????
GOAL! O'Shea knocks it in from the corner!
United 1-0 up!
What a finish!!
Great play by Carrick. He is back on track!
It says it only supports IE or Firefox in Windows when I pop it on.
THat's the fourth one
the third one is ESPN
BBC Radio 5 Live's Graham Taylor: "The Arsenal players, unless I'm seeing things, look a bit unhappy in their roles and with the way they are playing."
I've lost the stream again. Grrrr.
http://www.iraqgoals.net/ch1.html
Third stream on Atdhe. Not broadcasting. Grrrr.
Half way through the first half. United are all over them
I hope they rue their lack of goals for the amount of possession
Roon tries a pile driver from half way hit wide.
I wish it was on target... that was hammered
That was Roon back there putting off Fabregas on the shot. Great work ethic from the lad.
Fab has a chance and whiffs and goes for a throw-in
Fab hits the target but saved and covered up by VDS
Arsenal starting to have a little offensive possession
KNOCK IT OFF
These commentators sound like they're living down a well. At least I'm getting to practice my Spanish.
Tommy Smith is an idiot!!
Another fabulous save from Almunia from a Ronaldo header!
What's tommy saying?
Great cross for Ronaldo but his header is brilliantly saved again by Alm
Saved again!
How do you say, "O'Shea bulges the old onion bag" in Spanish anyway?
United could be away and hiding!!
Arsenal scare me every time they go forward
STOP IT
Tevez went in on Almunia there and both of them are down writing now.
Away goals don't matter in the game!!
Smith is an idiot
Tevez almost in. Saved by Aluminum
Tevez shouldn't have gotten a yellow there!
Great run by Anderson
Roon seems to have moved into the center from the left wing
Anderson has been bossing the midfield
So what result would make you happy? 2-0? 3-0? 4-0?
Really happy with the performance so far
Not pleased with the score
Right now this deserves at least 3-0
Finally! I've got the ESPN2 coverage up on Atdhe stream #3. Nearly half time now.
Did Tommy really say that? What a berk!
What's Anderson doing in the center forward channel?
I think Anderson was on-side
We need another goal!
He just thinks both sides can score away from home
Great move from United. Just cut out by Silvestre.
Anderson tries to put Carrick through
Why didn't he go himself
Why does Smiffy mean by 'what people say about United' They pass the ball brilliantly!
Agreed. I think Arsene would take this result right now.
Walcott almost through!
I have no idea. Did you read that article that the Gooner sent? It had comments about Tommy. One Irish bloke said that if Tommy ever set foot in Dublin again, he'd give him a right kicking.
Half time
Great performance
Wish there were more goals to show for it!
Toward the Stretford End for the second half
Half-time: 1-0 United courtesy of O'Shea's strike. Job done so far for the Red Devils. They'll want to add to that in the second half.
I'll say it again - do United ever lose the toss? Or do teams just let them attack the Stretford End? I can't remember their not attacking the Stretford in the second half - can you?
Spurs sent them toward the Stretford End last week.
The commentators mentioned it
Of course, we scored FIVE attacking away from the SE
United need to hammer home their advantage.
I hope it doesn't come back to bite them
Why does ESPN have the white shirt of United and the red of Arsenal for today's match on the floor?
Couldn't they find out what shirts they were going to wear??
Yeah, Rooney was irresistable on Sunday.
No, they couldn't. Any other questions?
I hate how people say ArSENal!!
It is Arsnal really
Teams are out.... come on UNITED!!!
Dear oh dear - I've lost the stream again, right before kick-off. I'm off to find the Spanish one again.
United have not started like they did the first half
One goal from 135 minutes of Champions League semi final action. Not exactly value for money, is it? Good thing we're not paying anything!
Wow - first time I've been able to get LiveVSS loaded all day and it comes up with Martin and Andy first try. Brilliant!
Great work from Carrick
I don't think Tevez was off-side again!!
Mine doesn't work
Ron has a shot blocked
Anderson has been all over the park tonight
He was supposed to be marking Fab
Now Anderson wastes a corner
This match has gone off the boil.
Song's getting close to a booking.
Did you try the first United-Arsenal link?
Web page doesn't open at all
Wasted corner by Anderson. Straight over everyone.
I know - that was the same for me for most of the afternoon. But suddenly it loaded for me and the first link brought up Martin and Andy on Sky Sports 2.
Evra has been the weak link tonight not O'Shea
Thirty five minutes left. Still 1-0.
A mistake by Fletch almost gets the Arse in
Rio to the rescue
We really need another goal or two
Useless shot by Anderson...he'll never score!
How can a Brazilian not know how to score?
Adebayor has a nice shot
Over the bar. I didn't have a good feeling when it bounced perfectly for him
Oooh, Fabregas was nearly in there, but Rio knocked him off it.
Anderson is an enigma. When you signed him, I remember looking at some YouTube clips of him and they all showed him doing these amazing runs and scoring great goals. Who knew that he would play as a holding mid?
My link has frozen - bye bye Martin and Andy. It was good while it lasted!
25 to go
Here comes Ryan Giggs making his 800th appearance for United
Mr. PFA Player of the Year
I think that is for the career not season
Tevez off for Berbatov
Ronaldo with an absolute cracker!!
OFF THE CROSSBAR
I hope Arsenal don't score... they don't deserve to
Here come Bendtner
Berbatov had no pace to get that ball.... he should have gotten that
Theo is the one coming off
Great run by Roon into the box but his cross is cut out
Carrick hits a nice shot wide
I'm off to my class, mate. Best of luck!
Another dangerous cross by United's best wide man... Rooney but cleared
Take care
Giggs crosses cleared by Silvestre
We REALLY need another goal
13 to go
Giggs gets it in the net but called back
Says he is offside.... very close
Of course Tommy Smith says he was so he wasn't
Commentators say that Berba hasn't scored in his last six games... he scored against Spurs you Plonker!
Eduardo coming on with under 10 to go
He is coming on for Adebayor with 8 to go
The commentator just repeated himself about Berbatov
HE SCORED ON SATURDAY!!!
It is Derek and not Tommy!!!!
The Arse have free kick
Rio fouled Eduardo and got hit in the family jewels
VDS comes for it but doesn't get it but Bendtner hits it wide
Rio is down again.
Rio is coming off for Evans
Rio is walking off holding his ribs
Please be okay Rio
2 to go plus added time
Keep your head Roon
4 added minutes
Ron has a chance but hits it widely wide
2 to go
United give the ball away twice
Throw in to the Arse
Under one to go
Very close to the end
That's it!
Manchester United 1 Arsenal 0
just as I predicted JOHN O'SHEA was the game winner!
I guess that score is okay but we deserved much more! Alumunia was Arsenal's hero
On to the Emirates!!
I plan on doing a sicky on that day
Talk to you guys on the weekend.
United kick off against Boro at 7:45
Take care
BBC Radio 5 Live's Graham Taylor: "Will it be enough for Manchester United, that's the question? Though from an Arsenal point of view, they've got to beat United by two goals to go through, and not many teams do that."
I hope you're right Graham, I hope you're right!
Well, it's all to play then for next week in both matches. Can't wait. I'll be there on Saturday morning with bells on, Dave.
By the way, on the Berba issues, are you sure that the goal was counted to him because it looked as if it might have been an own goal off Gomez. Maybe Derek is right?
No way Berba's goal
Manchester United 5 - 2 Tottenham Hotspur
29' 0 - 1 Darren Bent
32' 0 - 2 Luka Modric
57' Cristiano Ronaldo (pen) 1 - 2
67' Wayne Rooney 2 - 2
68' Cristiano Ronaldo 3 - 2
71' Wayne Rooney 4 - 2
79' Dimitar Berbatov 5 - 2
Right, you are, mate. I was just trying to possibly justify Derek Rae's incompetence. Fair enough.
One more reason to celebrate the end of ESPN2's coverage of the CL.
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