Manchester United Tie Gives Chelsea a Dewy Concern

By Stephen Lars

On Saturday English Premier League big wheel Manchester United drew 1-1 during the 35th closing round allowing Chelsea to reduce the opening to only three points.

The points were scored by South American Roque Santa Cruz who opened the scoreboard in the 21st minute and Manchester's goal came from the Argentinean Carlos Tevez in the 88th minute with a shooting to the net in combination with abusive midfielder Paul Scholes.

However the combatant of the day was Chelsea's goalkeeper Brad Friedel who played an exceptional game stopping some important goal shots above all when the visitors were hunting the haul desperately in the second half.

During the 79th minute Friedel stopped Tévez and consequent on Wayne Rooney as well as the Irish defence John O'Shea (86th) before the ambition arrived. Before the 64th minute the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo threw a ball against a post. This unforeseen result holds back Manchester's run for the title, which formerly seemed to be an easy deadweight for the "Red Devils."

On Thursday Chelsea won over Everton 0-1 and now had 78 points only three points shy of the in fashion leader. The isolated object of the pastime was that of Ghanaian Michael Essien during the first half of the game at the 41st minute.

On the other hand, Arsenal was left away of the competition for the title after career overrun by Reading 2-0. This amusement lay an limitation to Arsenal's five games without winning at the Emirates Stadium.

At last the Londoners managed to presentation a victory to their supporters thanks to the good work of the Spaniard Cesc Fábregas who was defending the centre of the field as well as Togolese Emmanuel Adebayor and of the Brazilian Gilberto; the 'Gunners', third in the general grouping are situated seven points behind of the leader.

Liverpool achieved a new victory, this time against Fulham (0-2), with a complete of eight points from Everton which is in fifth position in the battle for the title; situation which is not completely complicated as this allows them a pot for the attached Champions Union edition

Lastly; there is Bolton, which recently won over Middlesbrough 0-1 and was able to capture a breath. Meantime, the Derby County continues in evil shape after losing to West Ham 2-1.

This Sunday, Aston Village sixth place of the classification board, sank all the more also down after losing to Birmingham (5-1), while Newcastle took air after winning 2-0 over Sunderland.

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