Manchester United 0-0 Everton – F.A. Cup Semifinals – 19 April 2009 – Live Blog
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I’m stunned by fergie’s team selection! Is he sacraficing the competition? This is a very good Everton side and to me Fergie’s got to be kidding????!!!!
April 19th, 2009 @ 14:47whos bd condell?
April 19th, 2009 @ 15:15who’s erwf?
April 19th, 2009 @ 15:26oh wait, I remember! erwf is the guy who doesn’t think before he comments
BD Condell has been around on the site for a while now, do you really have this short a memory?
April 19th, 2009 @ 15:27coming back to topic, we don’t seem to be getting the FA Cup here. Guess I’ve only got Victor
@Brian – I dunno mate, I like this team selection. He’s giving some players a rest and others he’s giving them the chance of a lifetime to stake a place in the first team.
If it keeps key players fit for the run-in, why not. This side, if it plays to potential, should be able to get a result here, plus we’ve got Berba / Nani / Scholes on the bench.
April 19th, 2009 @ 15:32One of the main promotions in football this year is respect. Respect too players, coaches, managers, players and of course referees. David Moyes talked about referees always siding against him and put alot of pressure on the referee today. Welbeck went down in the penaly area and wasnt given a penalty. Why? I looked at it up close and he was tripped and why would he dive he had a open goal it was a proffesional foul. And David Moyes is too blam to me. He put pressure on a referee before the game which is not proffesional.
April 19th, 2009 @ 17:55Sorry to say, but Fergie chose an absolutely awful team
He could have at least had Berbatov from the start
He underestimated Everton and he paid the price
I hope Chelsea win.
April 19th, 2009 @ 17:55United should have beat everton, we were unlucky. But we definitely should have had Ronaldo or Rooney or even Fletcher on the bench, any of them could have scored today. The only way we can forgive this is by winning the league and champions league..
April 19th, 2009 @ 19:50No one can really say anything about Moyes winding up the ref, Ferguson has done it plenty of times himself.
April 20th, 2009 @ 00:10Well, on one hand this hurts less than I expected. On the other hand I really hoped to see Fergie go all out for the FA Cup.
He says he played the kids after looking at the pitch but that’s bullshit. He rested the players, pure and simple, and gambled on the FA Cup with kids. The pitch is bad but cannot be used as an excuse when both teams are new to it.
I was telling Russell before the weekend that Fergie is old-school and would never sacrifice the cup, but he effectively did so by sending out a young team.
Given our situation this season, maybe it was the right decision. I do know that Fergie is the best-placed person to make that decision, just like Rafa is the best-placed person to decide to pull off Torres / Mascherano off at Stamford Bridge with the game still to be won.
We like to romanticise the game but the fact is, both managers will be judged on the league – United by their ability to beat Liverpool’s best challenge in forever and Liverpool by their ability to make this ‘their year’.
Of course there’s the Champions League and Arsenal to take care of, but it looks like the league is top priority for United now. In fact if Villareal had qualified for the semis, I would have taken a punt at United playing weakened sides in both legs
60+ games in a season will kill the best of squads – and this squad isn’t THAT strong yet.
April 20th, 2009 @ 03:51we might have had a stonewall penalty but those are the breaks, and we had a few decisions going our way too (at least that’s what I’ve read, damned cable operators didn’t put the game on here). Was Riley influenced into NOT giving United a penalty? That would be a convenient reason, wouldn’t it?
April 20th, 2009 @ 03:56Well, despite what I said beforehand I think the youngsters gave a very good account of themselves and overall Utd shaded the contest!
Not a great game with very few chances. Penalties are always a lottery. Not sure about the choice of penalty takers for Utd though.
As a Utd fan the PL and CL are the 2 big ones and if sacraficing the FA cup delivers them then I’ve no problem with that.
No guarantees of course!
April 20th, 2009 @ 07:00MUFC WILL STILL BE THE BEST NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!!!!!
April 20th, 2009 @ 10:13Haha Man u lost. Man u should have won though. That should have been a penalty. I think i know why Riley didnt give it. Moyes was saying something about Riley supporting Man U and all, so if Riley gave that penalty, Moyes and the media could easily say Man u won cuz Riley was biased. Go home Man u… You wouldn’t have won the quintuple anyway.
April 20th, 2009 @ 10:15haha who is erwf that cracked me up
April 20th, 2009 @ 12:52That “nudge” on Pienaar involved an elbow and Welbeck wasn’t “hauled down” as the BBC reported in a recap article. It’s good to see some of you Red Devil fans are doing more than just making excuses, though. Whom will you be rooting for on May 30th?
April 21st, 2009 @ 13:21From Toffeeweb.com, too (I only watched all of regulation b/c I neglected to tape the program after the game on Sunday unfortunately so I can’t comment myself):
“In the cold light of television replays, it appears as though they had a case — so too might Pienaar have done after 37 minutes when Rafael shoved him off the ball in the area with his arm — but what probably won’t be talked about much in the aftermath by those sympathetic to the Red Devils’ cause is the incident in extra time that canceled out that penalty controversy: having turned Vidic and left him for dead, Cahill was harshly pulled up for a foul he didn’t commit and denied a clear run on goal.”
April 21st, 2009 @ 14:51It was a very poorly officiated match. I understand why David Moyes did what he did, but he should be fined. I understand Sir Alex does this kind of stuff all the time, and I hate it when he does it, too. Mike Riley was clearly afraid to call ANY penalty that wasn’t a clear-cut, obvious, no-doubt-about-it infraction. That’s why he didn’t give United the call on the Welbeck incident and that’s why he didn’t give one to Everton for Pienaar. It really compromised the quality of the match and cast a pall over what should have been a glorious day for Everton.
April 22nd, 2009 @ 16:51Put it this way. If the penalty situation had happened to Everton and Utd won the shoot-out we’d never hear the end of it.
FACKT!
April 23rd, 2009 @ 13:34Just watched the final good clean game, both side played good football
May 30th, 2009 @ 16:45Chelsea deserved it