** komentar saya :
1. Motivasi pemain Southend lebih tinggi apalagi setelah mencetak gol
2. Ambisi utk mengalahkan team besar membuat kiper Southend bermain luar biasa..
3. Pemain2 United kurang greget, kecuali Ronaldo, Rooney yg lumayanlah, yg
jelek mainnya richardson, Smitthy, fletcher, silvestre, yg lain yah....gitu deh
hehehe
4. MANCHESTER UNITED layak kalah....no doubt Southend menang dg sukses
5. Silakan bergembira bagi para ABU.....moga2 subuh nanti gak mengalami hal yg
sama....
Southend 1 United 0
ROCK-BOTTOM Championship side Southend dumped Premiership leaders United out of
the Carling Cup at Roots Hall.
Highly-rated Shrimpers striker Freddy Eastwood sealed the win thanks to a fine
first-half free-kick, and try as they might the Reds could not respond.
Sir Alex Ferguson sent out a strong side including Wayne Rooney and Cristiano
Ronaldo, but spirited defence from Steve Tilson's men saw the underdogs through.
And although it was Eastwood who scored the goal, the real hero of the night
was Southend keeper Darryl Flahavan.
He produced a hat-trick of stupendous saves, all of which denied Ronaldo who,
just like Rooney, tried his heart out but could not prevent Southend recording
a shock win that took them into the last eight for the first time in their
history.
It was a serious jolt for Ferguson, who only 24 hours ago celebrated an amazing
two decades at the Old Trafford helm.
Throughout the past week, Ferguson has attempted to deflect all the praise and
plaudits for his amazing achievements at Old Trafford by insisting he was more
concerned with the future than the past.
As such, and given they had come so close to humiliation at Crewe in the
previous round, it was no real surprise to see Rooney and Ronaldo in the Scot's
starting line-up as the Red Devils looked to book a quarter-final place for the
third time in four years.
Worry
Although precisely 43 league places separated the Premiership leaders from the
Championship basement boys, a strong start from the hosts could also have been
anticipated. Ferguson though presumably did not expect it to last the entire
length of the first half.
Jamal Campbell-Ryce was the initial worry, darting down the right flank with
menace while not quite managing to find a clinical final ball.
But it was Eastwood who soon took centre stage, showing the talent which
persuaded Derby to bid £1million for his services in the summer.
When David Jones chopped Campbell-Ryce down 25 yards out, it was Eastwood who
sent the free-kick searing into the top corner beyond the grasp of Tomasz
Kuszczak.
It was Eastwood's 10th goal of a stellar season and a capacity crowd, who have
not seen their team record a league win since mid-August, erupted, sensing a
shock of seismic proportions, caring not a jot this is supposed to be the
secondary domestic cup competition, and very much fourth on United's list of
priorities.
Jones came agonisingly close to snatching an immediate leveller when his
skidding left-footed shock clipped the base of a post with Flahavan beaten.
Sporadic
Flahavan had dealt comfortable enough with United's sporadic goal threat, most
of which came through Rooney, but the fingertip save he produced to deny
Ronaldo's instinctive 25-yard drive was world class.
Ferguson felt sufficiently concerned to forgo his seat in the directors' box to
make his way down to the visitors dugout and it was not long before he was
involved in a heated exchange with the fourth official, although the precise
nature of his complaint was unknown.
If Flahavan had been relatively inactive before the interval, he made up for it
at the start of the second half as his personal duel with Ronaldo stepped up a
notch.
First, the Portugal winger tried his luck with a snapshot which Flahavan
managed to push away.
Then Ronaldo let fly with the type of stinging free-kick which has become his
trademark this season but, again, the Southend keeper was equal to the task.
United laid siege to the Southend goal for the final 20 minutes but too often
Rooney and Ronaldo tried to force a way through on their own and the visitors,
marshalled superbly by Spencer Prior, a League Cup winner from his Leicester
days, were able to keep them at bay.
The nearest the Red Devils came to an equaliser was through Gabriel Heinze,
whose 20-yard shot seemed destined for the corner of Flahavan's goal but
instead flew just wide of his left-hand post.
Thanks & God Bless You
Samuel Rismana S
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
HAPUS BAGIAN EMAIL YG TIDAK PERLU SEBELUM ME-REPLY.
==========================================================
Milis Tabloid BOLA
Untuk KELUAR DARI MILIS INI. Kirim Mail kosong (tanpa subject) ke alamat [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
==========================================================
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bolaml/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bolaml/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
