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Opponent's playing at home, MU series of threats earlier release through Dimitar Berbatov and Javier Hernandez. However, long-distance kicks in the minute Paul Scholes was the one making the eleventh-MU could beat out your opponent.
The situation does not necessarily make the MU winning the upper hand. Instead, they several times threatened by the host, which is quite adamant to catch up. Fortunately, goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar did well to confront opponents of business.
One of the important rescue Van der Sar was twice thwarted when Dickson Etuhu shot in the 31st minute. At that time, Etuhu opened fire and Van der Sar dismissed. The ball then rolled back to Etuhu who fired into the net. However, Van der Sar was able to reach out and throw the ball.
Manchester itself has a number of other opportunities, but failed to turn it into goals, such as when Berbatov fired a ball that deviated from the target in the 37th minute. Score was 1-0 last until halftime.
Entering the second half, Manchester United tried to pressure. However, Fulham able to thwart the attempts of the enemy and slowly rise up to attack, to be able to score an equalizer through Simon Davies on 57 minutes.
Goals stems from the success of Damien Duff through adangan Patrice Evra and then release the bait to Bobby Zamora on the left side in the penalty box MU. The enemy convoy, he let go of the bait into the middle of the penalty box flat, which Davies was greeted with a kick that makes the ball lodged in the upper left corner of goalkeeper Van der Sar.
MU back a chance to surpass Fulham, through Dimitar Berbatov in the 67th minute. Controlling the ball in the penalty box, he fired the ball, which unfortunately fell right into the arms of David Stockdale.
MU has not created a new opportunity, when Fulham almost turned through a Danny Murphy's winner at minute 71. From outside the penalty box, he fired a shot hard into the bottom left corner of the goalkeeper, who succeeded Van der Sar pushed over away from the target.
After that, both sides again exchanged threats, through Zamora (80) and Nani (82). However, none of them led to goals, until MU won the scoring in the 84th minute, thanks to an own goal Brede Hangeland.
Fulham bad luck continued when on 86 minutes, the referee gave a penalty gift to MU, following Duff handsball. Nani who is believed to execute, send the ball into the bottom right corner of the goal, which unfortunately could still be blocked Stockdale.
Two fatal mistakes that make Fulham threatened to lose it eventually paid off by Hangeland, with scoring position in the 89th minute. At that time, from the middle of the penalty box, he managed to gore Damien Duff corner soccer goalkeeper Van der Sar signed.
The goal was to restore morale and confidence Fulham. With relatively little time, they tried to find the last goal. Unfortunately, until the long whistle sounded, none of the goals is created.
During the 90 minutes, MU controlled the ball as much as 58 percent and the right to release eight shots on goal from 22 businesses. Meanwhile, Fulham created eight golden opportunity from 20 experiments.
The composition of players:
Fulham: 12-David Stockdale; 3-Paul Konchesky, Brede Hangeland five-, 18-Aaron Hughes, 4-John Pantsil, 16-Damien Duff, 20-Dickson Etuhu, 13-Danny Murphy (27-Jonathan greening 81), 29 -Simon Davies (11-Zoltan Gera 90), 23-Clint Dempsey (30-Moussa Dembele 61), 25-Bobby Zamora
MU: 1-Edwin van der Sar; 3-Patrice Evra, 23-Jonathan Evans, 15-Nemanja Vidic, 22-John O'Shea; 13-Park Ji-Sung (17-Nani 67), 18-Paul Scholes, 24 -Darren Fletcher, 25-Antonio Valencia (11-Ryan Giggs 74), 9-Dimitar Berbatov, 14-Javier Hernandez (7-Michael Owen 74)
