The England national team take on USA tonight for a friendly match staged at Wembley Stadium. The event will see the reunion of the English United and Chelsea players who battled it out in the European Cup final a week ago today.
This meeting could have been extremely painful for our lads if the result hadn’t gone our way. Nobody likes losing, but players like Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand seem to struggle more than most with the idea of defeat. Whilst training with the likes of John Terry, Frank Lampard and Joe Cole would have been great inspiration for improvement next season, not wanting to have the disappointment rubbed in their faces again, I certainly am chuffed that our lads are the ones that get to be gracious today, rather than bitter in defeat.
Following the Cup final, Frank Lampard bitterly claimed that the best team did not win.
“We deserved to win,” he claimed. “Nobody could deny we didn’t. We completely dominated the game and created countless chances. The best team didn’t win.”
Over the course of the two hour match, United forced 4 saves from Petr Cech, obviously not including the chance that gave us the goal, to make it a total of 5 shots on target. In stark contrast to this, Chelsea just had 1 shot on target, from which they scored a goal, after the ball deflected cruelly off not one, but two United defenders, before an Edwin Van der Sar slip on the wet grass left Lampard with a simple tap in.
Over the course of the two hour match, United were in possession of the ball 56% of the time, in comparison to Chelsea’s 44%. We had a territorial advantage of 52.5% to Chelsea’s 47.5%. We had a passing success of 80% to Chelsea’s 71%. The only area where Chelsea proved to dominate, like Lampard claims, is with off target shot. Chelsea had a go but failed to hit the target an incredible 18 times.
So today, as the players meet for training, what do you think our lads have to say to Lampard?
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id imagine as professionals they would have cast off club allegiences and be focused on the job at hand representing england!
They’ll no doubt be apologising for the injustice that night. Surely you cannot be claiming UTD’s weak shots straight at the keeper are better chances than any one of the three times chelsea hit the post. Statistics paint a deceptive picture, but I wouldn’t expect anything other than UTD fans claiming a deserved victory as graciousness has never been a trait of a Ferguson team.
Yeh you would like to think that!
Personally id not be saying a lot about it, but I would be spitting in JT’s face!
You forgot to mention Chelsea hitting the post and cross bar
Also forgot to mention John Terry slipped, not only Van der Sar
I’m sure they are laughing at how stupid English pundits are. Everyones been waxing lyrical about our football but then we get outplayed by Chelsea in the league and in the Cup final. How can anyone claim this is Fergie’s best team when a team in mangerial and boardroom turmoil could and probably should have won both. If Mourinho was still in charge there I think we’d have very different views about our team and its progress.
how was it like sucking patrice evra’s pussy?
Maybe that’s why their team didn’t win – because they are too busy concentrating on what should have been or what they could have done and pointing fingers instead of focusing on what needs to be done… Nuff said!
Never met a match going United fan that had any interest in the England national team. Who cares if they don’t get on? United are the champions of Europe and that’s all that matters!!!
haha. lets hope the “soccer” stars put a few past them tonight
United > England
Easy for the utd guys to get on with the task at hand and I’m sure they already had a good laugh at comments coming from Chelsea.
Had Tevez taken one of his chances early on in the final, it might have been an embarrassing result for Chelsea cause UTD were far superior until Chelsea had that lucky goal.
But if it was me, i just couldn’t resist mentioning the Utd victory all the same
Maybe they’re asking Frank if he’d like to come play for a big team?
We were undefeated in the Chapion’s League
Chelsea lost twice…get over it
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
Maybe they tell him how it is to lift the Champions League trophy, because he’ll never experience such a thing.
They’re telling Frank how much they paid the ref and gloated about the succession of corners given as goal-kicks to break up Chelsea attacks when Utd were collapsing in the second half. Then there were the sending off decisions against Scholes, Tevez and Rio that weren’t given. It really was that funny – you had to laugh.
certainly you are right Squiddy…the ref knowing which team deserves victory will do anything in his power to make decisions go for the better team’s favor. Yes it certainly is a laugh knowing United have more fans in the referees union as oppose to Chelski….LOL….too bad so dad….I don’t cdare how UTD win it…but they did…LOL….
Awww Squiddy, is someone a little bit bitter?
Hey Christo you are correce graciousness has never been a trait of a Ferguson tieam. However winning is. And Geoff, hittong the woodwork is not on target. Let’s face it you should have been 3 down by half time
There is such a thing as graceous in defeat, but it seems that anyone associated with chelsea lacks that quality. it is ashame that a team that has no right to come second to Manchester United, has in 2 competitions, money may bo some success but never can it buy you tradition
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If you watch the England USA game when Terry scores the header notice who the VERY first teammates to come and congratulate him are. Not Joe Cole, not Lampard, but Rio, Wes, Rooney, and Hargo.
The players at United are pure class and 100% professional.
They were telling him that football is a game and in games the best teams are not determined by dominance but the result they are capable of getting out of their play.
The records in 2020 will show the winner but not the best team of the day (which is a debatable one anyway).
Maybe they are telling him he is a fat, over-rated pr*ck….. United were deserved winners of the Champions League… Not on the performance in the final but on the overall tournament….. Chelsea had the easy road to the final while we always got the hardest team possible…. Sign of a great team is one that has a bad day and doesn’t play well but still wins.. Unlike Chelsea who were horrible to watch the whole season
I think it’s hilarious how everyone’s talking like scoring in a friendly makes up for Terry’s stupendous penalty miss, haha.
ha ha ha … Champions, champions, champions.
In Feb ol’ joey cole was going on about chelsea having what it takes to win 4 trophies… apparently not joe. Obviously didn’t have what it takes to win one – bring on the tears
What a load of bollocks from some of the renties, how the memory fades so quickly, watch it again to realise how very lucky you were it wasnt 3-0 by HT, an easy 3-0 I might add, but it wasnt, just like hitting the woodwork wasnt just like Terry and Anelka wasnt, full of ifs, maybes and buts……. And for lumpard to say the “best team”, united completely dominated the 1st half, we won fairly and thats that….get over it, over 2 hrs there was nothing really to seperate them thats why theres a penalty shoot out, and we won it, nuff said
the reasonable thing would be to tell Lamps to leg it and leave the rentboy to cry by himself
Sorry Lampard as a player you cant gauge the statistic only the football experts will tell you that. For your infomation the refree did not accept your boss money to turn the game arround so its hardluck to Chelski
rio: “frankie… we don’t think you’re good enough for the england team”
hargreaves: “it’s always gonna be me plus one other in the midflield and i can’t see you making the starting 11″
wes: “i took gary’s position in the england team and i can take yours too”
Is Ray Clemence saying ” Even I have got a European Cup winners medal Frank”
Actually, Rio and Rooney are talking to each other …
Rio: “did you hear that fat w@nker talking cr@pp at the end of our game the other night?”
Rooney: “I don’t listen to losers. Speaking of which, didn’t Maureen just call Chelski losers?”
Rio: “Yes. Almost Carling Cup, almost League, almost Champions’ League … almost is nothing. Then something about the philosophy of a loser!”
fatboy..ha ha ha
wtf!! why the hell are their chelsea fans on this, fuck off
they might say i taught the b itter blues wwhere the other team