Manchester United v Urawa Reds - The Official Thread

Originally Posted by redstu7

has it finished yet??

The pain? No.

3-2 Urawara last minute clincher.

Originally Posted by Part 36 Offer

are you sure it is 2-2??

just seen goal. £#%&!ing @#%&!s

Originally Posted by n48

3-2 Urawara last minute clincher.

yeah own goal by paul parker

Originally Posted by redstu7

has it finished yet??

yes 2 each

2-2

Bastard!

Originally Posted by Scabs

2-2

Bastard!

Bastard? Why? Who cares?

I get very excited by pre-seasons...

sorry.

I feel deep shame.

I had also gone all in on a win.

Originally Posted by violater

he failed at newcastle and only florished at parma who are a relegation scrapping team. he found his level.

Bit like Tevez at West Ham then? Only Tevez is turned into a hero for saving a relegation threatened team even though Rossi made more of an impact in a similar situtation.

If Rossi is sold and Smith stay it will be a joke.

As for the game, Urawa were quite impressive, decent pace to their game, quite creative. Utd were rusty, though Rooney looked quite good, Scholes was very sharp, though played very deep.

Evans looked a bit sluggish,at fault for the second goal, beaten very easily. Pique is often criticised for his lack of pace but Evans is similarly slow, and his passing from the back was none too impressive. Simpson is a good athlete, physically looks a bit like Quinton Fortune, same running style, but again his use of the ball could improve.

Originally Posted by antonin jablonsky

Bastard? Why? Who cares?

vds. apparently he's all washed up. i'm expecting a deal for craig gordon by mid afternoon.

Originally Posted by borsuk

vds. apparently he's all washed up. i'm expecting a deal for craig gordon by mid afternoon.

I thought we were getting an Argie keeper no-one here's ever seen, that's normally the case.

MEN Match Report :-

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...._united_2.html

Urawa Red Diamonds 2 United 2

17/ 7/2007


UNITED'S Far East tour opened in disappointing fashion as J-League champions Urawa Red Diamonds held their Premier League counterparts in Saitama.

Second-half strikes from Darren Fletcher and Cristiano Ronaldo appeared to have saved Edwin van der Sar's blushes after the veteran goalkeeper inexplicably gifted Hideki Uchidate a 25th-minute opener.

But former Feyenoord midfielder Shinji Ono finished off a superb solo effort near the end to earn Reds a draw, no mean feat considering three of their key men are currently aiding Japan's Asian Cup bid.

Despite the late setback, it was a useful workout for Sir Alex Ferguson's men, who were without minor injury victims Owen Hargreaves and Nani, although Van der Sar probably did not enjoy himself too much.

There certainly seemed no apparent reason for Uchidate's speculative effort to find the net, other than the United goalkeeper completely misreading it as he moved towards his right-hand post, only for the ball to curl inside him.

A fumbled parry in the second half, by which time United had seized the initiative, offered a reminder of the uncharacteristic blunders Van der Sar made at the end of last term.

Form

Although Ferguson is hardly likely to stress out too much at such an early stage of United's preparations for the defence of their Premier League crown, Van der Sar needs to be in top form ahead of the season opener against Reading on August 12 given Ben Foster is out until March following knee surgery.

After easing themselves into the contest, United increased their tempo immediately after Urawa grabbed their shock opener.

Paul Scholes and Wayne Rooney might have levelled before the break but it took only two minutes of the second period for the visitors to level.

For all his industry and gameness, Fletcher would appear to have more to be worried about from Hargreaves' arrival than most.

Yet, preferred to Alan Smith, whose own future is also in doubt, the Scot kept his head in fine style to belt home the leveller after Michael Carrick had supplied a neat cut-back.

Up to that point, Ronaldo had been a sporadic spark, raising the greatest enthusiasm from a near-capacity, yet strangely muted, 58,716 crowd, with his array of tricks.

He clearly has not lost his eye for goal though and after 23 strikes last term, cut off the left wing then let fly with a thunderous shot which flicked off Satoshi Horinouchi before nestling in the bottom corner.

Rooney wasted another excellent opportunity to open his account after Ronaldo played him in and the England forward was made to pay immediately as Ono slalomed his way into the United box before finishing superbly to earn the Japanese outfit a share of the spoils.

United: Van der Sar, Brown, Ferdinand (Evans, 45), Vidic (Simpson, 45), Evra (Silvestre, 45), Ronaldo, Fletcher, Carrick (O'Shea, 69), Giggs (Smith, 69), Scholes, Rooney

Subs: Kuszczak, Heaton, Bardsley

1-0 Uchidate
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1-1 Fletcher
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1-2 Ronaldo
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2-2 Ono
[DM]483ypSD4paGNSi27A[/DM]

possibly 4 of the worse goals i have ever seen!!

We look like the £#%&!ing dippers in those shirts.

Originally Posted by antonin jablonsky

We look like the £#%&!ing dippers in those shirts.

Agree, not liking the new design at all, last years kit was a classic, this one is not.

Originally Posted by antonin jablonsky

We look like the £#%&!ing dippers in those shirts.

i posted that earlier, wrong shade of red, wrong, wrong, £#%&!ing wrong

Thanks for the clips!

The shirt? Me no like.

Im not diggin it either.

Wrong red and I don't like the white stripe up the back.

Jonny Evans is £#%&!ing shite.