[Eaglesfan27]

6 minute mark: Downing passes into the box.. Rooney shoots.. the keeper blocks it.. King shoots the rebound.. a defender blocks it.. Parker shoots.. a defender blocks it and clears it.

8 minute mark: sousa shoots from 20 yards out.. hits the crossbar.. Howard clears the rebound.

14 minute mark: Alves dribbles past two of my men.. passes to Maia in the left side of the box.. he centers it to Pepe in the middle of the box.. he shoots.. lower right corner.. Howard is slow to get to it.. GOAL. Down 1-0.

26 minute mark: Howard stops a long shot from Maia.

35 minute mark: Parker steals the ball.. passes it to Rooney just inside the box.. he shoots immediately.. lower right corner.. it is just inside the post... GOAL!!!!! 1-1.



Halftime: 1-1 tie.




50 minute mark: Carlos passes to Pepe who is 30 yards out.. he shoots a powerful banana shot.. upper right corner.. Howard tries to get to it.. it's too fast.. he can't get there. GOAL. Down 2-1.

60 minute mark: Ortega gets a yellow card for tripping Pepe.

61 minute mark: Alves with a corner kick to the near post.. Pepe heads it.. upper left corner.. GOAL!!!! 3-1. Clearly, I should have been more worried about Pepe!

74 minute mark: Oswald on for Parker and Schreurs on for Ortega.

88 minute mark: Rooney takes a free kick from 25 yards out.. strong curving shot.. upper right corner.. the keeper dives.. blocks it.


Game over. 3-1 loss on the road.

We were outshot 12-6 (5-5 on target)

Pepe wins MoM, 10 for form, 20 of 25 passes, 0 of 1 tackles, 4 of 5 headers, 3 goals.

The 34 year old veteran Brazilian centreback/midfielder clearly still had something left!