ManU v ASRoma — Matchnotes
By: Sam | April 1st, 200838th Minute | Roma 0 :: Man Utd 1
Just as I was refreshing screen at the 34-minute mark, an omenous feeling crept over me: “It’s been all Roma, about time for Ronaldo to score.”
This from The Guardian’s Scott Murray …
38 min: GOAL!!! Roma 0-1 Man Utd. What a fantastic header from… yes… who else. Scholes is found free in the Roma box on the right, but he’s running away from goal. It makes no difference to the quality of the cross back across into the area, a first-time reverse ball which stands up in the centre and invites the onrushing Ronaldo to hammer a header into the top-left corner. Absolutely fantastic, especially when you consider United have up until this point done nothing whatsoever.
That’s the needed away goal. United will relax into the second half of this frightening field trip.
Earlier: a nervous, frantic start followed by giallorossi settling at 15 minutes and providing a lesson in geometry. Vucinic proving too hard for Vidic to master. Vidic off on a stretcher; O’Shay to the lions.
Reds able to absorb Roma’s modest pressure, then they spring in what is a text-book away-style counter and finish. Splendid stuff from Manchester United, the team Mr Spalletti called “the best in the world.”
HALFTIME
Whistle. More giallorossi. More De Rossi, allovertheplace. Fuggeddabbaaatit!
60th minute: Taddei out, Giuly in.
Van der Sar is earning his keep. Roma press.
66th minute: United score on the counter.
74th minute: Game’s on ice, United in Rope-a-Dope.
Amazing close call: Ronaldo crosses to Rooney who flubs it innocently wide. Tevez in, Rooney off.
United will go on to win the Champions League with a professional away performance like this.
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