Saturday, October 28, 2006
23:59:00
Update on the Man Utd vs Bolton match at full time:Final Score: 4-0Scorers: Rooney(3), RonaldoUtd made a blistering start to the match, with 2 goals in the first 12 minutes, and even those were only 5 minutes apart, Rooney bagging both of them. For the rest of the half, it was mostly a patient passing game played by United, they weren't too bothered about making any chances, just taking them as they come. The 2nd half began in the same vein as the 1st one ended, but then Bolton started finding their feet and began playing a long-ball game, taking every opportunity to launch the ball into the United penalty area, mostly from free-kicks(which United were giving quite a few of) and Ivan Campo's long throw-ins. these would have caused a few problems to the United defence of old, but Vidic was on top form, getting on the end of most of those balls and clearing them with strong headers. Bolton had only one clear chance in the 2nd half, and that was from a long ball which subsequently fell to Ivan Campo, whose shot was well-blocked by Van der Sar, with his legs. In between all this, United had a few chances. Giggs had a right foot shot well saved by Jussi Jaaskelainen, and both Saha and Rooney wasted chances, before the ball broke for Saha in the 81st minute, and he unselfishly squared the ball for Ronaldo to tap home.After the third goal, Bolton seemed to lose all fight, and Allardyce even threw on some youngsters just to give them a game, knowing the match was lost. Bolton's attacks lost the sense of urgency they had prior to the 3rd goal. Fletcher (who had been brought on for Giggs) provided the assist for Rooney's third and United's fourth in the 89th minute, knocking the ball right into the path of Rooney's run and Rooney finished well into the bottom left-hand corner of the goal for his hat-trick, in his 21st birthday week.ok the above report looks EXTREMELY 'straight-from-the-newspaper-ish'. hahahaha. but i don't care, United won convincingly and that's all that matters. Our goal difference improves yet again, and we're back at the top of the table. I hope more of this comes in the rest of the season. we'll need this kind of form if we want to win the Premiership again.CheersAnonyman!