park starts against arsenal.. he seems to play in more important matches this season.. and nani plays in less important matches
Arsenal v Man Utd PREMIER LEAGUE Venue: Emirates Stadium Date: Saturday 8 November Kick-off: 1230 GMT Arsenal 01 Almunia 03 Sagna 10 Gallas 18 Silvestre 22 Clichy 14 Walcott 04 Fabregas 15 Denilson 08 Nasri 02 Diaby 26 Bendtner Substitutes 21 Fabianski, 05 Toure, 12 Vela, 16 Ramsey, 17 Song Billong, 19 Wilshere, 20 Djourou Man Utd 01 Van der Sar 02 Neville 05 Ferdinand 15 Vidic 03 Evra 07 Ronaldo 08 Anderson 16 Carrick 13 Park 10 Rooney 09 Berbatov Substitutes 29 Kuszczak, 11 Giggs, 17 Nani, 21 R Da Silva, 22 O'Shea, 23 Evans, 32 Tevez Ref: Howard Webb
looks like a 12.45pm kick off. but they are still introducing the players. there will be a minute of silence b4 kick off. Rememberence Sunday.
lol BBC Radio 5 commentator said he thought it was a little disrespectful that Ferguson rested so many starters against Celtic on Wednesday, not that he would tell Ferguson what to do.
ManU wearing blue. Park Ji-sung had a shooting chance just outside the box but he let the squared ball go thru his legs and sold a dummy to the defenders to allow another ManU player behind him to take a free shot.
Always get the feeling that Park will score against Arsenal...he just seems to get up for this match more than any other...not that he starts or nothing. )
Had an earlier chance when Vidic shot at goal that was always veering off target, Park Ji-sung tried to head it back on target, but the shot was a rocket and he just missed it. that move started off from a freekick at the 3rd min. Park Ji-sung is also defending quite well, stole the ball off Walcott couple of times already.
So far this match is great. Living up to the big bill. Arsenal is up for it and playing attacking football, lovely passes. ManU also playing attacking football, countering fast and quick.
well, he is certainly playing a very attacking game today, spending far more time in offence way up the field. he has been doing that far more this season so far. The frequency of such plays means it must be part of Ferguson's strategic decision as well as Park Ji-sung own personal desire.
and looking back, Park Ji-sung this season has be far more vocal in his wish to score more goals, despite ManU this season have more attacking option than they had in recent years, which as a result Tevez is hardly seeing any play time. fck, Park Ji-sung! shot at goal, a great run (1/4 of the pitch) and a good shot as well, well saved parried by Almunia. He went pass 2-3 defenders.
I thought Park had a pretty good game... had a nice dummy allowing for a Rooney shot in the first half and some nice interplay with Evra... in the second half, soon after Nasri's second, Park gave a perfect cross to a breaking Ronaldo, who sidefooted wide. And then there was his one shot (left footed) where he created space for himself, alone in the box. He was pretty good today.
FT Arsenal 2 - 1 ManU Well Park Ji-sung played the full 90min and overall played well. There were couple of definite assists if only Ronaldo could have found the target. Park Ji-sung also showed nice movement and passing. Arsenal v ManU match was always going to be a hard, one of those key Big4 match up that the season may be decided upon. Arsenal got all three points keeping their title ambitions further alive, whereas ManU's one game advantage is now used up with nil point to show for it.
Is that true? ManU has never lots when Park started? Since 2005? Also, anyone have highlight clips of Park? ESPN's highlights were pretty dry.
dont know without looking it up but we are talking about a record streak, the record being the number of matches league, cup and CL that ManU did not lose when Park Ji-sung started. its a bit like the no losses at home streak kind of thing. ManU first highlighted this record last season, one of those sport stats people like to bandy around i guess. again cant remember when the record started and how many games it exactly is but its quite a number of games.
Freaking boo yeh, GO ARSENAL!!! What a classic match guys.. Park was definitely one of Man Utd's better players, he had a really good game.
Just finished watching the whole match and... wow, just wow, Arsenal just dominated United with multiple fast breaks. They just blew past them with their pace down the wings helped by one key United player who was out of position constantly - Berbatov. This was the first full match I saw them playing with Berb. What exactly is this guy's position in the United? I saw him dropping as far back as where he could have played a DM role, except that he never played much of defense. Berb singlehandly gave Arsenal all the space they need to exploit on a fast break. It's OK to have Berb drop back as a point of attack (obviously he was not used as out and out striker), but you can't have him not defend the middle when shit hits the fan. If he doesn't defend, it puts a lot of stress on back 4 (actually back 3 because Evra was bombing that left flank at will) to deal with fast and pacy Arsenal wingers. How many times did we see 3 on 3 or 4 on 4 fast break opportunities? Also, Berb need to be more consistent in his positioning. He doesn't need to drop all the way to the center line, but rather drop just enough to be that link man btw midfielders and wingers. If you have any doubt on what I said above, go back and watch last year's match, any match that they played with Tevez up front, and compare that to the match played yesterday. If it wasn't for Rooney's ************ form, Berb would have been subbed out in the second half. Lastly, it's time Neville stopped playing in a high profile game. He just doesn't have it anymore. He was by far the worst player on the pitch. He couldn't pass, couldn't tackle, out of position multiple times, he was just bad, period.
Good analysis JASF. Wish I could add onto that, but unfortunately, I don't have FSC anymore. Saw those Park highlights, and I gotta say, Park looked a lot more explosive. He had a great shot on goal in the late first half, and whipped in some good crosses. Overall, just some intelligent play that I enjoyed watching. Apparently, I can't say the same about United. I have a question. What the hell is Berbatov doing there? I tried liking him--I really did, but there isn't much about this guy that really stands out. Even on Tottenham I didn't see him as much of a big deal (But maybe that's just me.) I think Tevez is much, much better than him. From what I see, Tevez normally plays 100% and he's always running around the pitch. I actually feel really bad for Tevez, because he definitely does not belong on the bench. Oh, and nice goal by Rafael. Hopefully he'll be a accomplished succcessor of Gary Neville.