MiM 6: Manchester United vs Liverpool

Match in Mind 6, by Shadiq A-H.
Free of Charge.
Manchester United 3-0 Liverpool
English Premier League
23/3/08
1.30pm
Old Trafford, Manchester

Intro: I don't really need to tell u why I wanted to watch this match. This is e biggest rivalry in English Football and thus, Man Utd vs Liverpool matches are e biggest in England. Wouldn't have missed this match for anything. Even a class outing wouldn't have let me miss it.. oops that didn't help boost e class sirit right? But yes, this is a massive match. Oh and I wanted to really really see Rafa Benitez get his first win over Sir Alex Ferguson. And of course, see Fernando Torres own Man Utd. (And while typing this I'm also trying to watch e second match, and they showed William Gallas give a talk to his Arsenal teammates, and oh my goodness it was really motivating. ahh i love strong team talks.)
Tactics: Liverpool started again with a formation tt is slowly, possibly, becoming Rafa's permanent formation, a 4-4-2 with Steven Gerrard just behind Fernando Torres. Man Utd started with an interesting 4-3-2-1, a formation they don't always use but looks good. Man Utd had both Ryan Giggs and Cristiano Ronaldo (tt guy on our blog) on e wings, while Liverpool had Alvaro Arbeloa and Fabio Aurelio to stop them, and if Ronaldo kept up his form, Aurelio was to have a looooooong match ahead. Man Utd had a midfield tt really had a great passing range, with Paul Scholes, Michael Carrick and Anderson, but Liverpool has Javier Mascherano to keep them down with e way he superbly reads e game. That was until Masherano got sent off, though.
My Man of the Match: Wayne Rooney (Man Utd). He missed a few good 1-on-1 chances but other than tt, he was good. Held e ball with him whenever he got it, let his teammates get into supporting positions, held off Jamie Carragher and Mascherano, passed to his teammates to set up chances, got into great great positions although he didn't make use of those positions to score. And he put e cross in for e 1st goal. And he didn't go mad with vulgarities too haha!
“What the..?”: Mascherano! u read e game so so well, but don't tell me u couldn't read e look on Steve Bennett's face? he had enough of u, and a red card was jus so.. inevitable. I must say, u let ur team down by wat u did, and Liverpool really needed a player like u in this match.
Commentator’s memorable quotes: e commentator was again Rob Hawthorne. He started by talking about how this was e EPL's biggest match and so on.. then came a few memorable quotes. "This is when e Man Utd fans get edgy, they think, yes it's Liverpool, we're 1-0 up, they're a man down, we're having all e possession, but we've only got 1 goal!", "If there's anyone to do it now, it's Gerrard", "Don't u know u were going too far with it? Don't u know about e climate in English football now with e whole debate about respect shown to Referees?", "And at Man Utd, if Nani scores here against Liverpool, he's in their folklore". - Hawthorne.
Implications/Expectations: Possibly e biggest impact this match would have on Liverpool is tt they have to play e very very very important match against Everton next weekend without Mascherano. Rafa, I expect, would really tell Mascherano about how he let Liverpool down. Ronaldo will be expected to jus get more and more goals this season (he scored 1 in this match btw). and e debate in England about respect for referees will continue.
See u all in sch tmr classmates. And oh my, my Bio ws, Maths trigo ws, BM essay, Huck Finn are all not yet started. ahh tmr la. Liverpool, we do wat we always do, we walk on.