3 minute mark: Schreurs crosses it to Duff in the left side of the box.. he shoots.. upper left corner.. great save by the keeper.
14 minute mark: Duff dribbles past two defenders.. crosses to Cook in the middle of the box.. he heads it.. upper left corner.. it's wide left.
32 minute mark: Silvestre passes to Duff.. he gets it left of the box.. crosses it to McFadden.. he heads it in.. GOA.. it is disallowed.. McFadden is judged to have unfairly pushed the defender.
Halftime: 0-0 tie. We have over 91,000 fans here today.
46 minute mark: Duff passes to Cook outside the box.. he shoots.. curving shot.. upper left corner.. the keeper dives.. saves it.. Great save.
50 minute mark: Cook passes to Stevanovic.. he shoots.. it deflects off a defender.. sails wide right.
54 minute mark: Duff passes to Stevanoic.. he shoots.. hard curving shot.. the keeper blocks it.. Schreurs piounces on the rebound.. shoots... upper left corner.. GOAL!!!! 1-0.
61 minute mark: Grygera passes it to Cook along the right sideline.. Cook quickly passes it into the 6 yard box.. McFadden heads it from 5 yards.. lower right corner.. GOAL!!!! 2-0. That is McFadden's 20th goal of the year!! He is my third player to have 20 goals on the year! (Rooney and Smith are the others.)
72 minute mark: Cahais on for Lucio and King on for McFadden who is tired.
85 minute mark: Howard stops a point blank Lauth shot.
90 minute mark: O'Shea with a good defensive play on Lauth.
Game over. 2-0 win! Our magic number is now 1 win and 1 tie
We outshot them 16-3 (11-1 on target)
Damien Duff has won MoM, 10 for form, 27 of 34 passes, 1 of 1 tackles, 0 of 3 headers, 12 runs, 4 fouls drawn.
Schreurs had a 9 for form. O'Shea and McFadden had 8's.
The rest of the team had 7's.