Both teams just had a match last Saturday where MU won 1-0 against Sunderland while Chelsea lost to Southampton due to players rotation. Rafa Benitez sent out almost all his first team players to face MU, however a few Fergie's first team players were out of the game due to injury like Rooney, Vidic, and Rafael. Van Persie and Kagawa were not in the first team list too due to the match on Saturday.
Both team players:
Manchester United | Chelsea |
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1 David De Gea 3 Patrice Evra 4 Phil Jones 5 Rio Ferdinand 12 Chris Smalling 7 Antonio Valencia 16 Michael Carrick 17 Nani 23 Tom Cleverley 14 Javier Hernández 19 Danny Welbeck |
1 Petr Cech 2 Branislav Ivanovic 3 Ashley Cole 4 David Luiz 28 César Azpilicueta 7 Ramires 10 Juan Mata 11 Oscar 12 John Mikel Obi 17 Eden Hazard 29 Demba Ba |
The first 15 minutes of the match, United were aggressive and made a few attacks to Chelsea. But after that United seems like drop form and Chelsea took back the possession. However, there was no goal from both teams and end up 0-0 for the first half.
It didn't took long for Chelsea to score a goal on the second half when Mata pass a great ball and Ba manage to get thru Ferdinand and score a splendid goal for Chelsea. A clever flick by Ba who was a newly signed player from Newcastle during the January transfer market.
A splendid goal from Ba |
Even though Chelsea had scored a goal, it still wasn't a wake up call for United. The United players were still like dreaming around, can't make a fine attack to Chelsea. It was said to be Carrick's worst game of the season which he had made a lot of passing mistake and didn't have a well done long pass.
Although United wasn't played well in the match, there was still a few chances for them to score an equalizer. However it was Cech's great form that save Chelsea, he had save 2 deadly balls shot by the little pea- Hernandez.
A long shot from Chicharito |
The scoreboard maintain as 1-0 till the final whistle blow and Chelsea proceed to Semi Final face against Man City. It was truly the better team won, Chelsea deserve the victory.
Yet another season MU is out of the FA Cup. The last FA Cup that United won was in 2003/04 when Nistelrooy was still in the team. Well, from now on MU can focus on getting the 20th EPL title. Next week, United will face the noisy neighbour - Man City. If United win, then they shall secure their 20th title !
GLORY GLORY MAN UNITED!!!
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