Manchester United vs. Manchester City Review

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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.