2 minute mark: Downing is called for a trip.. dubious call.. Saha and Adriano are both angry.. they both get yellow cards for arguing with the ref.
12 minute mark: Eagles gets a yellow card for tripping Taylor.
25 minute mark: Downing gets called for a trip on Carlton Cole. Yellow card for downing.
28 minute mark: Lucio gets a yellow card for a trip on Cole. Mendes takes the free kick.. it hits the crossbar.. bounces back to Cole.. he shoots.. upper right corner.. GOAL. Down 1-0
30 minute mark: chivu gets a yellow card for a trip on Mendes.. this ref is horrible!
32 minute mark: Mendes collides with Downing.. he is hurt bad.. no yellow card for Mendes
Downing has to come off.. I put Mamam in for him.
43 minute mark: Eagles passes to Adriano just outside the box.. he shoots.. good save by Robinson
44 minute mark: Djemba shoots from 25 yards out.. Robinson saves it.
Halftime: Down 1-0. They have over 35,000 fans cheering them today.
54 minute mark: Cole gets a yellow card for a handball.
62 minute mark: Saha is tired, I put van Nistelrooy on for him.
83 minute mark: Adriano gets his second yellow card for pulling Mendes jersey. We need goals so I pull Brown.. and put Cook in at striker.. playing a 3-4-2.
86 minute mark: Djemba is injured in a collision with Mendes.. he can't play any longer. I have used all 3 subs, so I have to go to a 3-3-2.
93 minute mark: Eagles passes long to King who centers for Fletcher.. hard shot.. curving towards the upper right corner.. curving.. curving.. the keeper saves it.
Game over. A very disappointing 1-0 loss. Michael Tomlinson has become my hatest referee, ever. We were given 8 yellow cards. They were given 2 yellow cards.
They outshot us 7-4 (3-1 on target in our favor)
Cristian Chivu won MoM, 8 for form, 36 of 44 passes, 4 of 4 tackles, 6 of 6 headers, 3 interceptions.
Lucio also had an 8. The rest of the team had 7's except for Mamam who only had a 6. I hope Downing isn't hurt for too long...