No freebies, that I am aware of. The clubs' sites have webcasts, but you have to pay for them as part of their annual subscription packages. Kickoff's at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET (and midnight Melbourne time for me here). Game's on PPV in the USA-- but I have it live on free-to-air here via SBS. So I can at least help out with the PbP, as long as my day-long fatigue doesn't smack me about like a ton of bricks. Will fill in the loose ends on the news round-up ASAP...
* * *I'm William, and this is the news* * * Fergie enjoys rare injury-free luxury -- Man Utd's official site Has brief quips about the goalkeeping dilemma [*]Preview -- Man Utd's official site [*]Fergie keen to keep Rio -- sportinglife.com [*]Keane ready for United return -- sportinglife.com [*]Carroll's Cup final battle -- sportinglife.com [*]United deny star duo to leave -- sportinglife.com [*]MAN UTD v LIVERPOOL: Previous Meetings -- sportinglife.com [*]Match preview & OPTA stats -- skysports.com [*]Fergie purring over strike potential -- Yahoo's UK site, via TeamTalk [*]Match preview, complete with facts & figures -- The BBC [*]Kleberson gets support -- The BBC [*]Match preview -- Manchester Evening News Also, one thing that I think plays into Howard's advantage here is that there is much more pressure, relatively speaking, on Liverpool tonight than there is on United, with regard to a Champions League place. And there aren't too many games that United can claim that about.
I am not 100% sure it will be on but it usually is. www.1054centuryfm.com needs registration, its free and fast to sign up
Timmy starts. Man Utd vs Liverpool Man Utd: Howard, G, Neville, Brown, Silvestre, O'Shea, Fletcher, Keane, P, Neville, Ronaldo, Saha, Giggs Subs: Carroll, Butt, Bellion, Djemba-Djemba, Solskjaer
Tim starts in United's goal. Lineups, per sportinglife.com's matchtracker... MANCHESTER UNITED 14. Tim Howard 2. Gary Neville 6. Wes Brown 27. Mikael Silvestre 22. John O'Shea 24. Darren Fletcher 16. Roy Keane 3. Phil Neville 7. Cristiano Ronaldo 9. Louis Saha 11. Ryan Giggs Subs 13. Roy Carroll (GK) 8. Nicky Butt 12. David Bellion 19. Eric Djemba-Djemba 20. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer LIVERPOOL 1. Jerzy Dudek 3. Steve Finnan 2. Stephane Henchoz 4. Sami Hyypia 23. Jamie Carragher 13. Danny Murphy 17. Steven Gerrard 16. Dietmar Hamann 18. John Arne Riise 10. Michael Owen 7. Harry Kewell Subs 5. Milan Baros 8. Emile Heskey 11. Vladimir Smicer 28. Bruno Cheyrou 29. Patrice Luzi Bernardi (GK)
The game is on!! 2nd min. -- Gary Neville's bad backpass for Howard results in an early corner for Liverpool, from which nothing happens.
14th min. -- Finnan, after the ball comes off the boot of Kewell, puts over the top of Howard's goal from about 23 yards out. 15th min. -- Howard comes out to cut a ball off, intended for Hamann.
18th min. -- Saha's shot from 12 yards, after a cut-back and fancy footwork from Ronaldo, makes for an easy save for Dudek. 19th min. -- Ronaldo booked, for dissent.
21st min. -- Kewell fires over Howard's goal with the left foot, from 25 yards out. 22nd min. -- Fletcher sends in a chip that Dudek has no trouble with, cutting it off ahead of Saha. 23rd min. -- Riise chooses "safety first", heading out a Ronaldo cross for a corner, from which United can't do anything with.
25th min. -- Silvestre fouls Kewell 25-30 yards from goal, a lunge against the Aussie which earns the Frenchman a yellow card. 26th min. -- The ensuing free kick, taken by Riise, bounds off the United wall, resulting in a corner. Hyypia's header from that corner easily claimed by Howard.
United with 64 per cent possession in the last five minutes. 29th min. -- Dudek claims a ball delivered by O'Shea and intended for Giggs.
32nd min. -- Henchoz booked for Liverpool, for what commentator Martin Tyler termed a "cynical challenge".
33rd min. -- Giggs' free kick on the restart swerves past the post, on the opposite side of it, to Dudek's left.
36th min. -- Four-man United move results in a corner, a flag kick from Giggs that Dudek cuts off. 37th min. -- Keane appears to be cut on the back of his scalp. Comes off for treatment (a "blood rule", as we call it over here).
Saha makes a move into the box after receiving a perfectly-weighted return pass from Giggs, but Liverpool's defenders recover well to stop the move. Halftime whistle goes... scoreless. Howard not really challenged by any Liverpool shots of note yet. Whatever shots have come in his general direction have sailed wide of a post of over a crossbar. His distribution has been good, and United's defence has been organised quite well.
61st min. -- Gerrard wins a penalty for Liverpool, Gary Neville concedes it. Murphy steps up and converts it, upper 90 over Howard's outstretched right hand. 1-0, Liverpool.