Manchester United vs. Manchester City Review

United went nine points clear at the top of the Premiership with a convincing, if a difficult, win against Citeh! The game was extremely exciting and Citeh put up a good show much to our surprise.

Wayne Rooney scored an early goal for us, when one of Citeh’s defenders made a complete hash of a backpass and Rooney was lurking nearby to slot home and open the scoring for United as early as five minutes into the game! We were looking sharp early on and might have made Citeh pay even more had it not been for some last-ditch defending by them.

Citeh did have a fair share of possession in the first half, and to their credit created a couple of chances which a clinical striker would have put away but it was not to be and it could be said that we got our second against the run of play. Gabriel Heinze stole the ball out on the left edge of the box and drilled in a shot was parried in by Louis Saha. This gave United a comfortable 2-0 lead going into the break and the tie seemingly over with.

Citeh came out with much more purpose after the break and had the majority of the ball and for once, United looked nervy. O’Shea came on for Saha in a tactical switch but that didn’t prevent Citeh’s attacks as they grabbed one back through a great individual goal by Trabelsi. That, however, only set the wheels back into motion as United got back into the groove and the persistance finally paid off when Rooney’s shot got deflected and landed into Ronaldo’s feet who made no mistakes in putting it in the back of the net to seal the game and the three points for United!

Other Reports: BBC, Soccernet.

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Manchester United Transfer Rumours

A lot of rumours have been flying around lately about players coming in and going out come the January transfer window. Starting with Owen Hargreaves who’s been linked to us on more than occassion. Apparently he’s on his way here in January and I, for one, would love to see him in a Red shirt! The only downer with him is that he’d be cup-tied for us having already for Bayern in the Champions League. Fergie has come out all praises for Owen Hargreaves today, read that article here.

Moving on, there’s also rumours of Gabriel Heinze making his way to PSG. Considering he was linked recently to Real Madrid and he personally quashed those rumours, I think this is another one of SUN’s worthless pieces of stories of absolutely no significance.

There is also talk of Alan Smith being the subject of a £6million bid from Aston Villa. But I think we can safely regard that as just a rumour since Smith has always figured in Fergie’s plan whenever he’s fit and is a valuable member of our squad especially for important mid-season and CL games coming up.

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