Manchester United Aston Villa : Wayne Rooney and the Carling Cup final was a child's head and Manchester United came from behind to keep the knockout competition for the first time with a 2-1 victory over Aston Villa.
• O'Neill bemoans Ibid Vidic refused to send off
After the start of an alternative, Rooney was only on the pitch because of an injury to Michael Owen, who had been drawn, James Milner's fourth from the penalty spot.
He would not allow that to prevent him from becoming a nuisance to the Wembley game winner against Aston Villa, despite 16 minutes of time, Rooney got on the end of Antonio Valencia's cross and headed home, shave another goal - for the fifth time in a row - to take his goal tally for the season to 28 and to allow United to retain the trophy after a thrilling Wembley Sir Alex Ferguson feared was not possible.
One of the more obvious reasons why Ferguson to choose to leave the best player out of an occasion like this was extended to the surface, which was claggy every time the Red Devils have played on the stadium reconstruction.
Fear of attrition game, in addition to the extra time, then play England, Premier League trip to the wolves, when victory will take his team up, and before that crucial meeting with AC Milan on March 10, it is assumed that this was Ferguson believes Rooney could walk without doing.
After any fears are unfounded on the pitch. And Aston Villa at the beginning of aviation means that there is no chance of any of the parties be allowed to turn this issue in many of the hassles was expected.
At that time, questioned Martin O'Neill how to avoid them Nemanja Vidic card of any kind for a foul on Gabriel Agbonlahor. Also wore in the contest, and a growing number of private players ended up in Phil Dowd of laptops, and increased criticism.
If Agbonlahor dashed when Vidic grabbed the first shirt, and a red card should have been. Instead, and Aston Villa striker admirably tried to stay on his feet after beating the Serbian access to Ashley Young's lofted pass behind the defense Nations. In the end, was more than necessary. Vidic stuck out his leg and hauled down Agbonlahor. Milner control his temper, and send Tomasz Kuszczak the wrong way to provide this contest with a craving starts.
He also tends to be the case when it was behind the fall of Nations, and the response was a comprehensive attack on the attack, which in turn provided with the villa to meet space. Mixture produced a dramatic scene, and more to accommodate the tie Ferguson's team quickly.
So solid all season, it was just luck, Richard Dunne sinners should come in a villa in the biggest game of this year. Irish and robbed by the Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov is close to the penalty, and although he made up the ground, and make him in the face of despair, Dan only succeeded in throwing the ball into Owen's path, and make the kind of instinctive first time by the completion of the profession out.
The contribution of Owen - Rooney and exile - came to an end three minutes before the end of the first half was to be regretted, despite the fact that watching Fabio Capello has long concluded that hamstrings Shuffle can not be trusted by the last World Cup.
Perhaps Capello also reached to the conclusion of Stephen Warnock should be delivered to the problematic left back berth against Egypt on Wednesday. But when Warnock slipped just before the end of the first half, and a man of the match between Valencia galloped past him down by the line, his cross eventually arriving at the feet of Park Ji-Sung, who was beaten on the inside of the post, where he jumped from the goal for Carlos Cuellar to hack clear .
Friedel keeping away built a remarkable effort from Michael Carrick after half-time, although the United Villa equal and can easily be leveled when Ashley Young sent a barrage of bouncing in the ground.
Problem to find Villa Rooney lurked. After the fall victim in the middle of last week, claimed Gianfranco Zola England striker has a touch of Midas. It is more the story of the boy is the type of writing at this moment, after flying home after another header to put his side ahead, and Rooney came painfully close to making it six the number of another when it crashed on the bar.
Villa responded in kind, Vidic inspired Emile Heskey headed to the bar special. But that would have spoiled the story.
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