Football Focus Highlight

Manchester United (MU) 0-1 surrender to Aston Villa in the Premier League duel continued, at Old Trafford, abtu (12/12/09). These results frustrate intentions "Red Devil" displaces Chelsea from the top of the league.

Before the match, Manchester United are in second place with 34 points, or just lost two points from Chelsea. This makes the ambition of mastering MU passionate standings.

Exploiting the benefits of appearing in a stable, perform faster direct MU since the early minutes. However, their efforts did not work out. Aggressiveness and militancy MU groove Villa feedback often run aground in the middle of the road.

Only when the game entered the tenth minute, MU had started to control the game. Villa weak in the midfield, making Manchester a few times can go up to around the penalty box Villa. However, MU penetration efforts often failed because the line discipline of the game Villa defender.

While Chelsea continued to trouble finding a gap inserted threat, even capable of winning Villa ahead through Gabriel Agbonlahor on 21 minutes. Exploiting cross Ashley Young, Agbonlahor sent a ball into the net MU, who escorted Tomasz Kuszczak.



Team Line-up:
MU: Kuszczak; Vidic, Brown, Evra, Fletcher; Anderson, Carrick; Park (Berbatov 63),Valencia; Giggs (Owen); Rooney

Villa: Friedel; Dunne, Cuellar, Warnock (Collins 62), Luke Young; Downing (Reo-Coker 81), Petrov, Ashley Young, Milner; Heskey (Carew 74), Agbonlahor