2 minute mark: Lucio with an excellent defensive tackle on Saviola.
15 minute mark: Reyes burns Brown with speed.. strong cross to Saviola in the box.. Lucio is on him.. he shoots.. hard shot.. Howard with an impressive save.
16 minute mark: Downing crosses to Fletcher.. he shoots.. barely wide left.
25 minute mark: Howard stops a long shot from Vieira.
27 minute mark: Reyes burns Brown.. gets into the box.. shoots.. upper left corner.. GREAT save by Howard!
Halftime: 0-0 tie. Generally an evan match, but we are very fortunate that Howard made a few very big saves. We have over 75,000 fans here today!
60 minute mark: Eagles takes a corner kick.. finds Lucio in the middle of the box.. he heads it.. great header.. Alumnia barely tips it over the bar.
72 minute mark: I put Cook on for Fletcher and King on for Alan Smith who is tired.
81 minute mark: Reyes crosses to Henry who heads it to Saviola in the box.. Saviola fakes out Ferdinand.. dribbles to his left.. fires it up into the upper right hand corner of the net. GOAL. Down 1-0.
88 minute mark: Downing crosses to King who shoots.. Almunia punches it over the bar.
Game over. 1-0 loss
They outshot us 9-8 (6-3 on target)
Jose Antonio Reyes won MoM, 8 for form, 20 of 27 passes, 0 of 1 tackles, 2 of 7 headers, 1 interception, 6 runs, 3 fouls drawn.
Lucio had an 8 for form. The rest of the team had 7's.