Ruthlessly crushed

Berbatov leaves Cech biting the dust

It was yet another exciting coming together of the two gigantic behemoths of the English Premier League. The draw at Stamford Bridge left an unsatisfactory feeling for the United players and they look forward in going for the kill with Chelsea visiting them at Old Trafford. Nobody would have expected the scoreline gap on Sunday to be such a massive difference with Man Utd romping 3-0 past Chelsea. There were some selection surprises on both sides, but Ferguson turns out to be the better wily old fox than Scolari.

Scolari's decision to leave out Anelka from the starting eleven raises some big question marks as he decided to play Drogba alone upfront. Perhaps he thought that Drogba would be better equipped to handle the physical nature of Vidic and Neville. On the other hand, Fergie's decision to start with Giggs turns out to be a tactical genius as the good old Welsh winger torments the Chelsea backline with his set-pieces. Experience enabled him to waltz his old legs past the crowded midfield.

Man Utd took authority in the first half in ensuring that they push upfront against Chelsea as much as possible. Quick passing and moving of the ball ensured that Chelsea would see as little possession in their half and thereby limiting their shooting chances. It was a pretty much dirty tackling game with boots flying all over. Lampard was already booked at the 4th minute. Bosingwa was in the referee's book in the 27th and weirdest nonsense is both Portuguese buddies Ronaldo and Carvalho ended up squaring up with each other and both were duly cautioned by the referee. Lol, ditch those nationality loyalties..it's the Premier League now..haha. Several handball appeals were up and some of them appear legitimate in favour of United but the referee refused to give them.

At the 45th minute, there was a bungle up after Ronaldo headed in a goal from Giggs' cross. On the first look, it seemed that the reason was that Giggs did not place the ball on the D for the corner before he floated in the cross. Giggs and Rooney raced to the assistant referee to protest incessantly. On the second look, it was revealed that the referee got it really wrong coz that was some ingenuity on Rooney's part which was taken straight from the practice ground. The person taking the corner was actually Rooney and he took it quickly by pushing the ball slightly out from the D first. So, the ball was in fact legally in play by then. Then Giggs took his own sweet time to jog to the ball, nobody realised it and that probably gave the impression to the referee that Giggs was the actual taker. Ok, so the referee orders for take two and Giggs swung in another corner into the box and this time it was picked out by Berba who flicked it to Vidic. The Serbian nicely connected it with a diving header passed the helpless Cech. Apparently, Chelsea looked too bemused in the whole episode to organise themselves and they left out people to guard the posts. Well, I think it's a goal of justice and at that moment it's just fated that United WILL score..hahahaha. Maybe they could retry 3 or 5 times, but it will still go in..lol

On the second half, Scolari decide to change things around by taking Deco out and putting in Anelka. Wrong tactic again I would say, he should have taken Drogba out coz he was pretty much below par the whole match and didn't even get a shot at van der Sar. Anelka is a solo striker and obviously he wouldn't stick it well with Drogba. Anelka had always worked best alone as shown in the previous matches. Actually, the whole Chelsea team was shitty and they don't even look threatening at all. Defensive mistakes were plenty and Terry was there occassionally to close down a shot. Joe Cole looks rusty all over because he hasn't being playing for a long time. It didn't look like the Chelsea that everyone knew about. Since Man Utd are 1-0 up already, they had a way much easier job and one more goal would suffice to seal the game. At the 63rd minute, Evra raced down the left and cross a ball into the box where Rooney was left with a simple tap in. The night was over by then coz it's a massive job to come back from 0-2 away, unless of course, United does the Gooners' generosity way of gifting two goals in the last minute..lol. Berbatov ends the night for Man Utd brilliantly in banging in the 3rd. It was technical expertise as Berba connects to Ronaldo's free kick cross using his perfect first touch abilities. Absolutely humiliating for Chelski. I think even Derby could cause more threat than them..haha. Scolari and his dudes were forced to eat humble pie as Jose Mourinho looks on from the spectators. Scolari is in deep trouble, because not even Avram Grant had produced such a disastrous run of results. Draws against folks like Fulham and Southend were really uncalled for. I think that moustache fella is losing control of his squad already.

Hmmm..I'm ruing on the fact that I did not put Vidic as the captain in my Fantasy Premier League team when he's got a goal and a clean sheet plus a bonus. Actually I did put him as captain before I went back to Nilai but I changed the captain to Zaki on the last minute when I reached my hostel. I was thinking that it would be hard to keep a clean sheet against Chelsea but I was wrong..haha. And Zaki did not score in his match. Ughhhhh..if only on that day I didn't come back that early. That would teach me not to dally too much with stuffs and trust my instinct rather than my brains..lol.

Overall, it's a brilliant result for United considering they have been goal-shy for the past Premier League matches. It would be interesting to see how Chelski would pick themselves out of the mess. Man Utd would probably have avenged the ghost of the 0-3 drubbing at Stamford Bridge a couple of years ago..haha. On a separate note, a couple of days ago, Ronaldo was involved in a Ferrari crash in the tunnel and it was most fortunate that he escaped unhurt. Lol, van der Sar was driving behind him and he ended up giving Ronaldo a lift to training. Chelski fans of course took to the opportunity to take a jab at him by chanting "You should have died in the tunnel"..haha. Sorry folks, he lives and Chelski will have many more years of nightmare with him around..lol. As regards to the typically quiet Benitez's bizarre outburst at Fergie, the Spanish probably felt the heat now that United are closing in on the gap. With two games at hand and if Man Utd were to win both of them, they would technically leapfrog over Liverpool. And I foresee the Scousers dropping many more idiotic points in the future..lol.