FA Cup ~ Manchester United vs Portsmouth ~ March 8
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the highlights for this match here:
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I really dun like Kuszack leh.... Now he conceded a penalty and got red carded.... Most importantly, we got knocked out.... When is Ben Foster coming back??? I also dunno why Sir Alex subs tevez when Scoles is not playing well....
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FA Cup left Boro or Cardiff , Bristol Rovers or WBA , Pompey and BArnsley
All shot-gun team .....
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Originally posted by Poolman:
Why the word luck always come out when Man Utd lost ?
Pompey defend better , control better , better cooler 'keeper .
The better team won .
Just like barnsley , the better team beaten Chelsea .
you big joker, we got a blatant penalty turned down by the stupid ref, we hit the post, got 2 clearences off the line, they had all the luck smiling on them
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Everyone must watch the highlights. Manutd attacks so many times, have so many close chances and yet cannot score a single goal. Looks like they got cursed.
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Mna u played better, no question. Pompey gameplan is plain to see, defend in numbers, and strike on counter attack.
Pompey stuck to its plan and strike on one of the few forays in man u half and the defenders were caught out. I wonder what they doing in the Pompey's half when they should be defending and Rooney shd be attacking and not defending, like their roles reversed.
Well this is the fa cup, not those teams that played well will win. Think 2005 Fa cup finals, when man u attack and attack, but failed to score and arsenal went on to win the cup via pks.
1988 fa cup finals when liverpool played wimbledon as league champions, who would have thought wimbledon to upset liverpool, who also missed a pk by John Aldrige.
Tongue in cheek, even if the ref gave a pk to ronaldo, I think being Pompey's night, James might have saved or ronaldo going to miss the pk.
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Sometimes the manager and players should talk less and concentrate on the game at hand.
Like fergie criticising the semi finals being played at wembley when his team was not yet in the semi finals. He should talk when his team is in the semi's.
Its as if his team was already in the semis, sounded so cocky, no wonder Pompey players were so fired up and gave 110% yesterday.
Sometimes the opposing manager just need to show the players what the opponent manager said in the press, its enough to fire them up for the match already, no need give so much prep talk.
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the best part of fa cup now is.. Now in the semis, only left Portsmouth as the only premier league side.. the rest are all from lower divisions after cardiff knocked out boro.. lmaoooo.. This fa cup is full of giant killers.. I hope barnsley win the final fa cup.. even if they don't, by beating chelsea and liverpool on their way to the semis is already godlike lols..
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Dun bother about this match already la, Arsenal drew last night!
DERBY next on our hit list. We beat them we get top spot!
And i dont mind seeing a fresh face lift the FA cup (: (Barnsley ftw haha)
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Yea... barnsley FTW!!!
I hope they beat Portsmouth
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Originally posted by sand king:
Dun bother about this match already la, Arsenal drew last night!
DERBY next on our hit list. We beat them we get top spot!
And i dont mind seeing a fresh face lift the FA cup (: (Barnsley ftw haha)
given Barnsley knocked out Pool and Chelsea, they already did what alot of Premier Clubs can't.
So they deserve a shot in the finals.
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but one observation, it seems Portsmouth's players all build like tree mountains..
I think they can play rugby just as well.
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Originally posted by daniu82:
I really dun like Kuszack leh.... Now he conceded a penalty and got red carded.... Most importantly, we got knocked out.... When is Ben Foster coming back??? I also dunno why Sir Alex subs tevez when Scoles is not playing well....
hi,
to be fair to him, I felt the Baros was not tripped, but he kicked the keeper and fell himself.
some can blame rooney, anderson, but where the hell was Evra or Brown?? Why our main man, Rooney is covering at the back?
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Whatever the result here lah... At least Wigan did a good job in holding Arsenal...
Considering that United have a harder run-in to the EPL title than Arsenal, they really need to be ahead by a few points in order to stay top...
Even their visit to Middlesbrough can't be consider easy as Middlesbrough has always been a problem team for them just like West Ham has too... And to make it all the worse, they also have to go to Wigan at the end of the season where they could be fighting for survival in the premiership...
Top all this, they still have the CL to play for... And if the signs are to be belief, whenever they comeback from a CL match, the team is not the same as usual, normally not as good... Just see Chelsea and Arsenal and you can understand...
March
8 Bolton (H) - Postpone
15 Derby (A)
22 Liverpool (H)
29 Aston Villa (H)
April
5 Middlesbrough (A)
12 Arsenal (H)
19 Blackburn (A)
26 Chelsea (A)
May
3 West Ham (H)
11 Wigan (A)============================
March
15 Middlesbrough (H)
22 Chelsea (A)
29 Bolton (A)
April
5 Liverpool (H)
12 Man Utd (A)
19 Reading (H)
26 Derby (A)
May
3 Everton (H)
11 Sunderland (A)