Manchester United 4-2 Everton (match discussion and videos)
Well, you can’t say United don’t have heart - actually, while this win has been a gift from Ian Turner and Phil Neville, credit to the side for the way they kept going.
With Bolton drawing away at Stamford Bridge, expect Jose Mourinho to carp about United’s win with something along the lines of ‘if we had sides gifting us wins we’d be 20 points ahead’ and possibly questioning Phil Neville’s loyalty to Everton (which, to be honest, he won’t be the only one to do so.
Props to Chris Eagles for scoring - he’ll be crazy tonight, won’t he - and props to United for not letting their heads drop when possibly everyone else had thought they had lost.
United vs Everton Goals
United 0-1 Everton (Stubbs)
United 0-2 Everton (Fernandes)
United 1-2 Everton (O’Shea)
United 2-2 Everton (Phil Neville)
United 3-2 Everton (Wayne Rooney)
United 4-2 Everton (Chris Eagles)!
Not much to say about the match apart from that 
United were scrappy, so were Everton, and the Everton fans deserve to be really pissed off at the result.
Both sides had handballs in the penalty area, so canceled out, hopefully.
After the game, the United team came on the pitch to celebrate, it was not only an unbelievable come back but also a great chance to wrap up the league now, with 3 games to go and 5 points ahead.
Match Preview
Injuries Update
As of now, Saha is ‘expected’ to return and he’ll be on the bench for today’s Everton game. Hopefully that will translate into a 30 minute outing and then another outing at the San Siro.
Ferdinand is ‘expected’ to be fit for Wednesday’s game, while Vidic will go for a scan on Monday to check his progress and ‘might’ be fit for the Manchester City clash next Saturday.
All things considered, that means that Manchester United are now pushing to get Rio, Saha and Vidic fit for the Chelsea game - a game Ferguson will want to win.
Neville is no closer to a return, but even if Ferguson hasn’t publicly admitted it, Neville’s loss is not a great loss. Brown is very capable of covering at right-back and gives United the pace that Neville lacks.
Park is out for the season and he’ll be traveling to the US to get his knee checked out. Evra’s fit and should play at Goodison Park today.
No news so far on Kieran Richardson, while Ferguson will be hoping that his key players (Ronaldo, Rooney, Giggs, Scholes) don’t get injured. As things stand, he can’t even afford to have Fletcher injured (who’s playing very decently this season).
United vs Everton
With Heinze and Brown playing in the middle, I don’t doubt that United will do a decent job at defending, but somehow you feel that they are bound to concede a goal. Luckily, at the other end Rooney and Ronaldo have 21 goals each for the club this season and are in exellent form. Smith will be there as well and United will ‘expect’ to score at least twice, regardless of how good Everton are.
I’m predicting a 1-2 win for United, but considering where we are in the season, nothing can be taken for granted. Everton could easily take a draw or even a win out of this game.
You still feel though, that Manchester United aren’t going to give up without a fight. And while the press talks about Chelsea’s late goals, United’s ‘comebacks’ this season have been quite spectacular.
With Reading playing at home against Newcastle and Bolton away to Chelsea, this is an excellent chance for Everton to get a lead on their 5th spot rivals this season.
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Neville’s loss is not a great loss?No way!How many years have passed since you last wore your boots Ahmed?
I agree with your predicted scoreline though I don’t expect a tough match for United. I’m pegging United to score an early first and then play possession football as long as they can.
United 0-1 Everton (Stubbs)
United 0-2 Everton (Fernandes)
United 1-2 Everton (O’Shea)
United 2-2 Everton (Phil Neville)
United 3-2 Everton (Wayne Rooney)
What a fantastic match and a great way to win the title.
Glory Glory Man United.
Glory Glory Man Utd!
Sure win!
Sign Fernandes! pretty good player! or nolan or parker! yeah!….
n i still think that evra sucks! very small, lightwieght, cant pass nor score…only can do sliding tackle without getting the ball! hahahaha!!! even leighton baines is better! with whopping freekicks! sign baines or bale next season!
Evra is alright! Has passed and scored!
Pity I missed the match! Great result!
Well done Reds!
United must be Champions now - look for Mourhino going crazy again this week…with something or somebody - or both.
Not sure Roman Abramovich appreciates Jose’s antics too much.
There could still be some surprises in the summer with his employment at Chelsea - since his rants and raves don’t exactly reflect well on the Chelsea Football Club..
Ed, I agree, I know the Chelsea fans get behind him no matter what he say’s but some of thing’s he’s said of late have been embarrassing to Chelsea football club.
I know he’s a fan of WWF/WWE but he shouldn’t be brining professional football down to that level of pantomime.
Its not unreasonable to think he might be on his way if all they win is the Carling cup is it?
@ Kienu:
Clearly you have not been watching too many United games to suggest Evra sucks. We have an explosive attacking width because we have two backs (Evra & Neville) that can support Giggs & Ronaldo down the flanks. Plus considering how much a stud Heinze was last season how is it possible that a “very small lightweight can’t pass can’t score” is keeping Heinze rooted on the bench.
We don’t need gary neville! We have phil neville scoring for us, would so laugh if everton beat chelsea and he scored!
2 thing man utd need to sign for next season is a finisher and another decent center and left mid-field… that it most likely be of to another season of win
zoogs
emphasis on “was” keeping him on the bench… until the injury crisis haha
3 thing i mean hehe
Just a thought. If a former player of a big club, in some other league, scored a key own goal for his former club while playing for a smaller team with no title aspirations, thus assuring his former club would at the very least continue to maintain high expectations to win the title…I wonder what the reaction in the English press would be.
avrv:-The reaction of the English press would probably be nil. Hope this helps.
Moaninho must be surely on his way out….I think some of those outrageous talk of chelski winning the Quad will be stop…And did anybody watch those chelski fans reaction when everton scored the first goal?? You got the taste of the same medicine after 70 mins…Chelski deserves that….. Damn hell chelski can buy any player in this world to make sure man utd doesnt get him but hell he will never have the Pride of a red devil and can never play the red devil brand of football…..Thats greatness defined…..I pity that ballack…What a mistake the dude made….
i’m actually quite glad we didn’t get ballack, because michael carrick is already starting to show what a fine signing he’ll turn out to be.
unlike a certain shevchenko or ballack…
I agree with you karan….All I said was that Ballack made a mistake going to Roman’s club…He sould have stayed on at Bayern…Sorry for not completing the sentence….
How about seeing if you can get Dimitar Berbatov - he’s looked great for Tottenham all season - scored another great goal today - and would certainly be great acquisition for ManU.
Can’t get both, so what to do?
Poor guy must have been a mess. It’s not easy to do something that embarrassing.
Ahmed,Kienu and co.
Whoever thinks Evra is not good enough to play for MU is wrong.In 06-07 season SAF has rediscovered the wings’ power.He uses Ronaldo down to the right flank and Gary isn’t that good any more to help Ronaldo so much as we think.Ronaldo dominates the right flank by his own and Neville is there just for the defensive duties.
As for the left wing Giggs can’t be that fast to dominate it.So, it’s Evra who helps him and has the 1-2 passes with Giggs and the centres by the line and the great off the ball running.What a slow left wing would it have been if we had Heinze?Can’t you see it?He is not the strong defensive full-back but a back that has ofensive abilities and duties.Before he came to MU he was playing left winger such as Giggs.He is now a great attacking back.We can’t have our power on our left without him.PLEASE give him the praise he deserves!
Phil Neville is there!Got it back to the net!He was on fire today!What a finish!Let’s see it once again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDcmrrzuzYA
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Evra played leftback for the Monaco team that made CL final againt Porto. I remember hearing rumours of him going to United since then.
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thank u everton players u have won our manunited thanks a lot
Evra sucks big time. He isn’t fit for the premeirship.He’s the only blemish on a manu side.I wud prefer to play with o shea on the left side.
Evra is supposed to defend foremost but half the time he plays as a mid or forward doesn’t carry out his defensive duties.
1) Against liverpool bellamy troubled vidic coz evra wasn’t out there helping in defence instead he was roaming in the mid’s.
2) He goes to ground easily.Never gets the ball.
3) His crosses are not accurate.Most of the time they don’t rise in the air.
4) Against AC Milan the way he stumbled upon heinze was a shame.When he shud have been going for the ball. Also wen he was alone & in a very good position he strayed offside.
5) his passes weren’t accurate against everton.
he is a complete waste.Sell him.I don’t think nebody wud buy him & think of it ppl were sparking rumours that heinze will go coz evra has arrived.Hahaha.This evra is a no-brainer.Even richardson can do a better job than evra.
Thank goodness he is suspended for AC milan match.It’s a big relief.How about a thread AHmed On getting evra out of manu.
come on, Neville won’t have been a mess. They’re going to get another million of the Rooney money if we win the Premiership. I know he simply LOVED United and stayed on for another two years just for that, but he is also the kind of guy who just wouldn’t do that. (But of course, I’m happy he did, and I like him even more than I did
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4) Against AC Milan the way he stumbled upon heinze was a shame.When he shud have been going for the ball.
obviously you never realised that wingbacks are supposed to funnel to the middle when on defence. The problem was Heinze mistimed his tackle and ended up stopping evra’s covering run.
Slaton I am sure you play football.Chintan,obviously, hou can’t unserstand that Evra is not responsible for what Ferguson wants to play in the left wing,nor for the tardy-Giggsy. I think that Evra has had his time in 06-07 season to adapt to the english style of football.The only problem with this full-back is that he can’t keep his nerves.That’s why he makes mistakes.Maybe he is not for an italian style defense but for Manchester and for the Giggs-assistant role he is the absolute player.
Giggs assistant? Nicccce!!!
chintan rules! ru frm malaysia? nice one mate! sign baines or bales! n pedersen! and pazzini the young italian! and parker and nolan!
I am from India kienu & stalon my friend Evra’s covering run should have been behind heinze & Kaka if kaka manged to take the ball away from heinze. He ran straight toward heinze not looking for the ball not looking for kaka. He just keeps on running like a mad dog without a leash.