Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Man Utd Destroy Roman Army


Tonight in the quarter final of the champions league in Europe, Manchester United were behind 2-1 in the 2nd leg against Roma. In the previous game Man Utd lost their skipper Paul Scholes due to suspension and in a premiership games during the week had players Park and Vidic injured.

This was looking like the of the run of man utd in the champions league. Before the game outside Old Trafford fans were causing trouble further creating tension into this decisive game for man utd

However 11 minutes into the game Man Utd came flying out of the blocks with 3 goals in the first 20 minutes. United went further on into the game adding 4 more and letting in one goal from a defensive absent-minded Roma to leave the result at 7-1 with the score being 8-3 over both legs.

Graham Taylor says "This will go down in the history books as one of Manchester United's best European performances.

Nobody expected it, and I defy anyone to say that they did"

In the game man utd biggest spend of the summer Michael Carrick also really took to his role and also became a valuable attacker scoring 2 superb goals

"I think Carrick really arrived as a United player in this game and for me, he was United's best player in the first half.

He played his role as a holding midfielder to perfection but he also broke forward to support the attack and his second goal was fantastic" Taylor added

Man Utd now go onto the semi-finals toface either AC Milan or Bayern Munich

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