Posts Tagged ‘Manchester United’
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
They already have the Carling Cup. They are on top in the premiership. They have proven themselves before in the champions league and are playing some of their best football of the season. So the question is whether or not they can bring home an unheard of 5 trophies in one season. They are making the push. Do you think they will make take it the distance?
They will have to clean house in the rest of the league to do so even though they are on top by 7 points. But quite possibly the most difficult task in front of them is that in order to advance for a 5th cup of the season, the Club world Cup, they will need to win the champions league trophy and a lot of stiff competition is still out there looking to ruin the would be history making run at 5 cups.
Tags: Club World Cup, Manchester United, Premiership
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
When the European Football 2007/08 season is almost finishing, different things can be analysed to check how the season has developed and which have been the most relevant facts during the nine months of competition.One of the most important facts are the goals scored, both in the domestic leagues and in the Champions League. In this aspect there is a name leading both tables: Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United with a total of 37 goals scored followed by Fernando Torres from Liverpool with 29 goals scored. But let’s go to the tables to see all details of the goals scored: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) National LeaguesCristiano Ronaldo - Manchester United 30 3 88 38 33 20 3Daniel Güiza - Mallorca 24 0 115 38 34 18 1Emmanuel Adebayor - Arsenal 24 3 118 32 35 17 1Luis Fabiano - Sevilla 23 2 93 33 28 16 4Fernando Torres – Liverpool 23 0 106 35 32 17 4Luca Toni – Bayern Munich 21 0 117 34 29 15 3
Marco Borriello – Genoa 19 5 146 43 33 14 4
David Trezeguet – Juventus 19 1 152 27 34 14 2
Mario Gomez – Stuttgart 18 0 100 32 23 13 2
Alessandro del Piero – Juventus 18 2 143 26 35 13 3
Kevin Kuranyi – Schalke 04 15 0 171 28 30 10 1 Champions League Cristiano Ronaldo – Manchester United 7 1 128 36 10 6 3Steven Gerrard – Liverpool 6 2 182 20 12 6 0Didier Drogba – Chelsea 6 0 151 31 10 4 2
Fernando Torres – Liverpool 6 0 145 20 10 5 1
Lionel Messi – FC Barcelona 6 1 121 33 9 5 1
(1) Goals Scored
(2) Penalties
(3) Minutes per Goal
(4) % of Team Goals
(5) Appearances
(6) Games Scored
Crucial Goals
Tags: Liverpool, Manchester United, Messi
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Champions League semi-finals are served. The big clashes between Liverpool FC and Chelsea FC and FC Barcelona and Manchester United FC will select the two teams who will travel to Moscow for the Final on 21st May. Reds boss Sir Alex Ferguson can’t wait to face Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final and is advancing some of his thoughts.
The Catalans beat Schalke 1-0 (2-0 on aggregate) to progress to the semi-final, but they will be without suspended skipper Carlos Puyol for the first-leg tie at the Camp Nou on 23rd April and Alex Ferguson opinion on this fact after United’s 1-0 win over Rome, which takes the Reds comfortably through 3-0 on aggregate is: “Payola’s is a very good player, so that’s interesting,”
And he adds: “We have the opportunity now to achieve something really special. We want to go to Barcelona and show we’re a good team. Barcelona are a wonderful club but we can’t go there and be negative. If we do that then we’ve got a chance.”
The United manager surprised everyone with his starting line-up against AS Rome, leaving Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo and Paul Scholes on the bench. But he defended his decision and maintained his faith was repaid by the performance and the final result.
“We have to think about Arsenal on Sunday and you have to look at the big picture at times,” Sir Alex added: “We were going into a game at Old Trafford with a two-goal lead and I have to trust the players in that situation.
“I keep saying it’s the best squad I’ve ever had so if that’s the case then why shouldn’t I play them? I took out Scholes, Rooney and Ronaldo, but Ji-sung Park, Carlos Tevez and Owen Hargreaves were our three best players.”Having said all this, Alex Ferguson as well as all football fans must await the matches to be played at Camp Nou on 23rd April and at Old Trafford on 29th April to know the final result although what it is 100% sure is that at least an English team – Liverpool or Chelsea – will be one of the finalists.
Tags: Chelsea, FC Barcelona, Manchester United
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