[Eaglesfan27]

1st minute: Duff passes to McFadden just left of the box.. he crosses to the center of the box.. Smith jumps.. heads it.. over the bar.

15 minute mark: Duff passes to Djemba who is at the left corner of the box.. he shoots from 25 yards out.. banana shot.. curving.. wide right.. curving.. into the upper right corner! GOAL!!!! 1-0.

21 minute mark: Duff crosses it to the middle of the box.. Smith jumps.. heads it.. the keeper saves it.

31 minute mark: Cook gets a yellow card for tripping D'Alessandro.

32 minute mark: Jordi gets a yellow card for tripping McFadden.

43 minute mark: Howard stops a 15 yard shot from Owens.


Halftime: We are up 1-0. They have over 61,000 fans here today.


47 minute mark: Luis Garcia gets a yellow card for pushing Cook.

52 minute mark: Ferdinand blocks a hard shot from D'Allesandro.. Ferdinand has blocked several shots before they reached goal today.

54 minute mark: Cisse gets a breakaway.. dribbles into the box.. shoots from 15 yards out.. Howard blocks it.. he pounces on the rebound.

60 minute mark: Schreurs crosses it long to Duff.. he heads it to McFadden in the box.. McFadden shoots.. lower left corner.. the keeper saves it.

64 minute mark: Gerrard passes it to D'Alessandro.. he passes between two defenders to Owen.. Owen shoots.. upper right corner.. past Howard.. GOAL. 1-1.

65 minute mark: I put Rooney on for McFadden and Adriano on for Smith.

88 minute mark: Schreurs crosses to Rooney just outside the box.. hard shot.. curving.. upper right corner.. the keeper dives.. tips it over the bar.

90 minute mark: Gerrard is called for tripping Rooney.. yellow card for Gerrard.. Cisse argues the call.. yellow card.. he continues to argue the call.. that is his second yellow card!


Game over. 1-1 tie. Good enough for me.

We each had 14 shots (6-4 on target in our favor)

Duff won MoM, 8 for form, 28 of 42 passes, 1 of 3 tackles, 1 of 6 headers, 5 runs, 1 assist.

Djemba also had an 8 for form. The rest of the team had 7's.