The Sports Review

March 5, 2008

Hargreaves makes the first goal for Manchester

Filed under: Football — admin @ 8:46 am

Owen Hargreaves made his first goal for Manchester United in the match against Fulham in the Barclays Premier League. With this 3-0 win, the reigning Premier League champions, Manchester United, reduced the lead of Arsenal to 1 point. In the second leg of the UEFA Champions League, Manchester Utd will meet Lyon and in the Quarter- finals of FA Cup they face Portsmouth. The team Manchester Utd is fully fit and Sir Alex Ferguson gets the option of selecting the best players for the coming matches as all his top players are injury free. Hargreaves is sure that the Red Devils will become treble champions this year.

According to Hargreves, this is the most interesting part of any season and he is happy that he is with Red Devils. He is proud about the performance of the team and considers the strength and the age of the players as advantage in competitions. The team is balanced with young and active players as well as old and experienced members like Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Edwin van der Sar. The Manchester United team definitely has the prospective of winning the European title, if all the players put the 100% effort into each game. The players are like the pieces of a puzzle, every thing should fall in the exact position for the picture to be complete, such that every player should do their work perfectly to win a match.

March 3, 2008

Manchester United closing in on Premiership leader Arsenal

Filed under: Football — admin @ 11:54 pm

Manchester United had a stunning victory over the Fullham at the Craven Cottage in the Barclays Premier league. With this victory Manchester has cut the upper hand of Arsenal in this league. United made this victory by taking the help of its top players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney only at the last 20 minutes of the match. Their defense line was also not very strong as Nemanja Vidic and Ryan Giggs were injured. Even though many of their star players were resting, Manchester was able to celebrate victory because of Owen Hargreaves and Park Ji-Sung. Owen made the first goal for the United by a well finished free kick and Ji-sung made the goal by a beautiful header.

The domination of Manchester united was clear through out the game. They played beautifully by showing good control over the ball and making calculated passes. They made their first shot within three minutes of the start of the game. Third goal was gifted by the Fulham player, Simon Davies, he made a self goal in John Shea’s pass. He came to play the match after a one – match ban. Now Arsenal has very powerful competition in reaching the premiership of the league.

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