Cristiano Ronaldo & Wayne Rooney Video
April 18, 2008
Some great skills & goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney, the two world class players of Manchester United !
Sir Alex Ferguson: Manchester United could still lose
April 17, 2008
Man Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes that his club could still yet fail to win the Premiership this season. United have a commanding five point lead at the top of the table.
“Wigan holding Chelsea puts us in a good position but in my experience in life you don’t take things for granted,” he said.
“We’ve got some difficult games ahead - Blackburn, West Ham, Chelsea and Wigan. We have three away games and one at home so we have to do a job.
“Because we have difficult games left, there is still a lot to play for and it could still go down to the wire.
“We could lose to Chelsea and we could lose all our remaining games. It’s a very difficult league these days.”
Cristiano Ronaldo will stay at Old Trafford
April 17, 2008
Cristiano Ronaldo says he is angry at all the speculation over his future insisting on Wednesday that he wants to stay at Old Trafford.
The Portugal international has scored 37 goals this season and that dazzling form has prompted links with some of United’s leading European rivals.
But the 23-year-old told The Sun newspaper that he wasn’t planning a move away from Manchester United any time soon.
“I just don’t care what the whole world seems to want to say about me or speculate about my future.
“I’ve said it a thousand times and, by now, people should realise…I’m totally happy at United,” he told the tabloid.
“I’m in the form of my life and I’m having the season of my career so far so it makes me mad sometimes to read some of the things which are supposed to be related to my future.
“I get angry but I’m trying to accept it’s a waste of energy to be furious because it is not worth it.”
Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal 13.04.08 | Premiership | Video
April 14, 2008
Man Utd : Cristiano Ronaldo 54′ Hargreaves 72′
Arsenal : Adebayor 48′
MANCHESTER UNITED 0-1 ARSENAL (ADEBAYOR) Emmanuel Adebayor somehow turns the ball into the back of the net with what seemed to be his arm :
MANCHESTER UNITED 1-1 ARSENAL (CRISTIANO RONALDO) Cristiano Ronaldo puts his second penalty in the same corner of the goal but Jens Lehmann still couldn’t get his hands to it :
MANCHESTER UNITED 2-1 ARSENAL (HARGREAVES) Owen Hargreaves scores a top draw free kick to give United the lead :
Red Devils end Arsenal’s hopes | Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal
April 14, 2008
Cristiano Ronaldo’s 38th goal of the season and Owen Hargreaves’s free-kick lifted Manchester United to a 2-1 win over Arsenal and a step closer to retaining their Premier League title on Sunday.
Defeat at Old Trafford left Arsenal contemplating a third successive season without silverware.
The Gunners are nine points adrift after a disastrous run of just two wins in 13 games that has effectively cost them any chance of honours at home and in Europe this term.
It was a point conceded by Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger who, when asked on Sky Sports about his side’s title hopes after this defeat, replied: “Yes we are out.
“We played with quality and spirit, and I’m very proud of our performance. What can you do?,” the Frenchman added.
Arsenal had been five points ahead in February but, despite their slump, Wenger said bad fortune rather than poor performance had been the Gunners’ greatest problem.
“The last two months, we have been not very lucky - and you could see that again,” Wenger insisted. “I believe this team is good enough.”
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, whose team still have to go to second-placed Chelsea on April 26, added: That was a big big game for us and we’ve come through it.”
Emmanuel Adebayor’s 48th minute opening goal had threatened to blow the title race wide open as Arsenal responded bravely to their devastating midweek Champions League defeat by Liverpool.
But Ferguson’s side responded to move six points clear of second-placed Chelsea with just four games remaining.
Any suggestion that Arsenal were still smarting from their painful defeat at Anfield was quickly overruled by a determined start that saw the visitors take control of the game without managing to turn their supremacy into goals.
Ferguson, asked what it was like to watch the game, replied: “Torture.”
The Scot added: “The quality of that game was outstanding, you won’t get a better game this year. You couldn’t ask for more from a team than Arsenal have produced today and we still managed to win it.”
Outspoken Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann, who last week vented his fury at being left on the sidelines by Wenger, made some fine saves after a wrist injury to Manuel Almunia gave him a rare start.
His afternoon’s work that blemished only by the keeper’s questionable positioning for Hargreaves’ match-winning free-kick.
Before then Arsenal had appeared to be on course to revive their title challenge when they finally took the lead three minutes into the second-half through Adebayor.
The chance came after Robin van Persie rescued a fluffed free-kick routine and sent a left wing cross into Edwin van der Sar’s six-yard box where indecision between the keeper and centre-back Rio Ferdinand allowed Adebayor to score, although replays indicated he’d handled, not headed, the ball home.
Just as against Liverpool, Arsenal’s challenge was to hang onto the lead but - echoing the Anfield clash - they conceded a penalty within minutes to allow Ronaldo to level.
William Gallas’s clumsy handball presented the Portuguese with the spot-kick and Ronaldo kept his nerve to beat Lehmann twice after being ordered to retake the first effort after Park Ji-Sung had encroached into the box.
“That was some pressure wasn’t it,” Ferguson said of Ronaldo’s penalty.
Ferguson signalled his intention to go for victory by immediately introducing Anderson and Carlos Tevez and the move almost brought immediate reward when Tevez flashed a 30-yard drive inches wide.
“When Arsenal scored, it forced my hand,” Ferguson explained.
Arsenal responded by hitting the post when Brown inadvertently deflected Gael Clichy’s cross but the decisive moment of the game came in the 72nd minute when Patrice Evra was brought down by Gilberto Silva.
The position appeared tailor-made for Cristiano Ronaldo but instead it was Hargreaves who curled the ball over the wall and inside Lehmann’s right-hand post.
Ronaldo wants to win the Ballon d’Or
April 12, 2008
Cristiano Ronaldo is eyeing the Ballon d’Or accolade and wants to be crowned the best player in the world. Ronaldo has already bagged 38 goals this season.
He told the Daily Mail: “I am concentrating on the Premier League and Champions League, but my ultimate aim is to be the best in the world. I work every day towards that, but only God knows if, one day, I will eventually get that Ballon d’Or, which is so important to me.”
The Portugal winger added: “I am living through one of the best periods of my career. I’m in good physical shape and I’m working hard. Thanks to that, the goals and results have arrived.”
Cristiano Ronaldo and Ferguson won March awards
April 12, 2008
Sir Alex Ferguson and Cristiano Ronaldo have won the manager and player of the month awards for March.
“It is Ferguson’s 21st manager of the month award, claiming his first in August 1993, while Cristiano Ronaldo has now won the player award on four occasions.
The prizes crown an exceptional month for Manchester United, who won all their Premier League games without conceding a goal.
Ronaldo, last year’s Barclays Player and Young Player of the Season, has scored 37 goals so far this season.
The Red Devils started March with a convincing 3-0 victory at Fulham, followed by a 1-0 win over Derby at Pride Park with Ronaldo scoring the only goal.
The Portuguese winger claimed both goals in the 2-0 win over Bolton and scored again in a 3-0 home win against Liverpool.
Ferguson’s side rounded off March with a 4-0 victory over Aston Villa in which Ronaldo added to his Premier League tally of 27 goals this season.
The former Sporting Lisbon player - who also claimed January’s prize - is now six goals ahead of Liverpool striker Fernando Torres in the race for the Barclays Golden Boot award.”
Ronaldo eyes second PFA award
April 11, 2008
Cristiano Ronaldo heads the list of players nominated for this year’s Professional Footballers Association player of the year award. The Manchester United winger, who also claimed the award last year, faces competition from the Arsenal duo of Cesc Fábregas and Emmanuel Adebayor, Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres, and the Portsmouth goalkeeper David James.
Ronaldo is widely expected to receive the award after a season in which he has been universally acclaimed for his dazzling contribution to Manchester United’s pursuit of a Premier League and Champions League double. A landmark campaign has seen the Portuguese score 37 goals, surpassing George Best’s club record tally for a winger of 32, which had stood since United’s European Cup-winning campaign of 1967-68.
MU 1-0 AS Roma 09.04.08 | Champions League | Video
April 10, 2008
Man Utd : Tevez 70′
The outstanding Hargreaves crosses for TEVEZ to guide a diving header past Doni :
Tevez goal steers United into semis | Photos
April 10, 2008
Manchester United FC can start preparing for a fascinating-looking UEFA Champions League semi-final meeting with FC Barcelona after Carlos Tévez’s second-half header completed the conquest of AS Roma.
The Premier League leaders may call Old Trafford the ‘Theatre of Dreams’ but for Roma it is a place of nightmares. Humiliated here last season and beaten again on their return in this term’s group stage, their faint hopes of a comeback from last week’s 2-0 loss effectively vanished altogether when Daniele De Rossi sent a 30th-minute penalty high over the crossbar.
Tévez’s goal merely confirmed the inevitable, leaving United to look forward to their fifth last-four berth under Sir Alex Ferguson, who, given his plethora of forward options, must fancy their prospects of a first final appearance since 1999.
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- AS Roma’s Daniele De Rossi reacts after missing a penalty as Manchester United’s Mikael Silvestre looks on during their Champions League quarter-final, second leg football match at Old Trafford in Manchester
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- Manchester United’s Owen Hargreaves (top) is tackled by AS Roma’s Philippe Mexes during their Champions League quarter-final, second leg football match at Old Trafford in Manchester
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- Manchester United’s manager Alex Ferguson (R) speaks with Wayne Rooney during their Champions League quarter-final, second leg football match against AS Roma at Old Trafford in Manchester
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- Champions League Manchester United-AS Roma Tevez
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- Champions League Manchester United - Roma Gary Neville returns
