9/20 -- Howard: Man Utd v Arsenal {R.}

Image of soccerfan running between rooms in my head.

Arsenal with some possession as game takes a breather.

60th minute.

 

Tim with one of his first few touches this half - slightly mistouches a back pass and has to step out of his box. No danger.

ManU win a free kick on the left side of Arsenal's box. Rolando sends in a low cross that looked to hit Ruud in the old onion bag.

Arsenal counter and win corner.

62nd minute.

 

Soccerfan and I both ponied up for the PPV.

Corner came to nothing as Toure headed out.

 

Arsenal putting pressure on ManU's defense -- cross in the box cleared.

2nd cross into the box claimed by Tim who starts break with a toss.

On the other end, Ruud almost receives dangerous pass in the box but goes out for a goal kick.

65 minutes gone.

 

Goal kick Arsenal.

67 minutes gone.

Pires warming up

 

Arsenal on the break -- long pass to Henry who gets off decent cross but no one on the back post.

Throw in Arsenal.

70 minutes gone.

Ugly collision leaves Fortune dazed and confused.

 

Arsenal with some possession. Comes to nothing.

Ronaldo in the box gets off cross but is blocked out.

Henry offside on break.

74 minutes gone.

 

Very dangerous chance for Arsenal as 1-2 goes to Vieira in the box but Tim came out well to intercept.

Forlan on for O'Shea in the 76th minute.

 

$16 something.

Ronaldo wins fk in the corner but Gigg's cross is claimed easily by Lehmann.

Arsenal on the reak but Fortune does well to block Bergkamp's cross.

78 minutes gone.

Nice pass to Ruud from Ronaldo but Ruud unfortunately misplays it behind him. He might have been free on goal.

Vieira sees yellow not sure for what.

 

Ronaldo with 2 step-overs then a nice cross which is cleared out of the box. ManU with another cross in the box which is cleared also.

Ruud manages to mount Vieira who is gone! 2nd yellow and RED CARD on Vieira as tempers are flaring.

 

Actually game has picked up considerably in the 2nd half. Vieira's 2nd yellow was for trying to kick Ruud while he (Vieira) was on the ground. Looked like it might have been a retaliation, but I didn't see what Ruud did. Ruud gets a yellow card.

82 minutes gone.

Edu on for Dennis Bergkamp.