[Eaglesfan27]

5 minute mark: Downing crosses to Cook outside the box.. he shoots.. over the bar.

14 minute mark: Downing tackles Gerrard with a two footed tackle.. yellow card for Downing.

18 minute mark: Ferdinand gets called for tripping Owens.. Cook is angry.. argues the call.. Cook gets a yellow card.

30 minute mark: Jordi pulls Adriano's jersey.. yellow card for Jordi.

35 minute mark: Rooney intercpets a keeper pass.. heads it up the pitch into the box.. runs and gets it.. shoots.. upper right corner.. GOAL!!!! 1-0! What a goal by Rooney!

40 minute mark: Stevanovic is tripped by Luis Garcia.. Garcia gets a yellow card.


Halftime: 1-0 lead. We have over 91,000 fans here today.


52 minute mark: Downing throws it into Stevanovic.. he passes it back to Downing on the left corner of the pitch.. Downing crosses to Rooney.. in the left half of the box.. he settles it.. shoots.. upper left corner.. the keeper dives.. it's past him! GOAL!!!! 2-0! That is Rooney's 20th goal of the year!

55 minute mark; D'Alessandro passes it into the box to Yakubu who heads it to D'Allesandro.. D'Allesandro shoots.. it deflects off Lucio.. Owens pounces on the rebound.. shoots.. upper right corner.. GOAL. 2-1.

63 minute mark: Howard stops a shot from D'Alessandro.

68 minute mark: Downing with a corner kick to the near post.. Stevanovic heads it.. the keeper saves it.

75 minute mark: Howard stops a shot by cisse.

77 minute mark: Cisse gets the ball 15 yards out.. shoots.. Howard saves it.

77 minute mark: Schreurs on for Cook who is tired, and King on for Adriano who is tired.

82 minute mark: D'Alessandro passes it into the box for Cisse.. he shoots.. Howard dives.. and catches it.

83 minute mark: D'Alessandro gets a yellow card for tripping Lucio.

86 minute mark: Schreurs with a long pass to Rooney.. he shoots.. GO.. offside on Rooney.

88 minute mark: D'Alessandro with a 40 yard shot.. it curves.. over Howard's head.. fortunately it curves a little wide right.

91 minute mark: Lucio gets a yellow card for tripping Cisse.

93 minute mark: King gets it at midfield.. makes a nice long pass to the box.. Rooney gets to it.. has a 1-on-1 with the keeper.. shoots.. the keeper dives.. tips it over the bar.


Game over. 2-1 win.

They outshot us 14-9 (8-6 on target in our favor)

Downing wins MoM, 10 for form, 14 of 17 passes, 0 tackles, 1 of 5 headers, 1 interception, 18 runs, 1 foul drawn, and 2 assists(?) I don't know he got credit for that one assist.

Rooney has 2 goals and a 9 for form. Eagles had an 8 for form. Brown had an 8 for form. The rest of the team had 7's.