FA Cup 5th Round

Wembley..Wembley..We're the famous Man United and we're going to Wembley

Crunch time at Old Trafford on last weekend as Man Utd takes on Arse-nal. Fergie had omitted many first team members like Ronaldo and Tevez in anticipation for the Champions League match. So, it's kinda like a gamble. Arsenal on the other hand are not in the best of shape with almost their entire first team squad decimated by injury. Adebayor is only half-fit. Many people anticipated it to be a close and tight match. But it didn't happened. The effect of Wayne Rooney in the team was clearly seee. The boy was pushing and pushing Arsenal's defence constantly and before long, he knocked in a goal with his head. Not long afterthat, second goal was put in by Fletcher thanks to a clever run and assist by Nani. And Nani himself rounded it up with a goal by beating the offside line. And just within the first half, the disorganized and dazed Arsenal was down 0-3 to United.

Ohh..the problems didn't end there for Arse-nal. Eboue had to screw himself up by smacking against Patrice. The game was long gone for Arse-nal before half-time. And with one man less, they really had to hold the floodgates now. Lehmann was sleeping in the first half half but he's more alert at the 2nd half by stopping a few potential United goal. Eventually, another goal was in and the finishing touches were done yet again by Fergie's favourite Scotsman, Fletcher.

United clearly had a uniform tactic to dismantle and tear Arsenal apart. There was emphasis on headers as shown by 3 out of 4 of the goals. Rooney on the other hand has been repeatedly trying to beat the offside line in an attempt to unsettle Arsenal's back four. I'm really impressed with Nani's performance in this match especially on the assists that he had set up. Arsenal's selection of players also played a part in their demise. Their team this time is totally haphazard even with Fabregas inside. They have noobs like Hoyte and Traore in the team plus two old timers like Gilberto and Lehmann who are supposedly "betrayed" by professor Wenger. Seriously, I can't imagine what sort of motivation that Gilberto and Lehmann have to help their soon-to-be-gone employers after all the nonsense they've been through. With Bendtner as one of the people leading the strikeforce, it's hard to see Arsenal getting any goals in the match. One can see Arsenal's desperation as Wenger puts on the half-fit Adebayor. And at the same time, Adebayor is desperate enough to try a dive but his theatrics was too pathetic to fool the referee. Lol..he only reacted a second or two after the tackle. Dude, if you wanna learn diving, learn from Ronaldo or Robben and when you do dive, don't do a delayed reaction.

The hillarious thing in this match was how the United players were teasing Arsenal. Rooney obstructed Gilberto from taking a free kick by dribbling the ball around childishly. The referee gave him a yellow card for time wasting..lol. The other one was interesting and it happened during play time. Nani trapped the ball with his head and started bouncing it with the head and the his feet while poor Hoyte was hopelessly chasing him around and falling flat on his face in the process.

Overall, it was a great match coupled by the excellent manner in which Man Utd had won it. Anyways, I can't believe it that Man Utd's being paired up again with another EPL side at the next round. It's Portsmouth up next for United while Chelsea got the slayer of Liverpool, which brings me to my next point. Okay, *clears throat*, Liverpool LOST to BARNSLEY right in ANFIELD. Oh gosh, need to say anymore? LOL, what in the world was Rafa Benitez doing? His time is up, even if the board don't sack him, the fans will slaughter him.