1st minute: Gerrard passes to Cisse in the left side of the box.. Cisse with a powerful curving shot... upper right corner... Howard dives.. blocks it!
7 minute mark: Cisse with a long range shot.. Gerrard gets teh rebound.. passes it back to Nino Ferro.. Ferro blasts a curving shot... upper left corner... It's out of Howard's reach. GOAL. Down 1-0 (5-4 our lead on aggregate.)
24 minute mark: Downing passes it to Rooney in the enemy's zone... Rooney fakes out Maduro.. he fakes out Holmes.. dribbles into the box.. shoots.. lower right corner... past the keeper... GOAL!!!! 1-1! That is Rooney's 20th goal of the year.
25 minute mark: Cook steals the ball... passes it to Adriano who heads it to Rooney outside the box... Rooney dribbles between two defenders... fakes out the keeper... shoots.. lower left corner... GOAL!!!! 2-1.
40 minute mark: Kirkland stops a flurry of our shots.
44 minute mark: Grygera gets a yellow card for tripping Cisse.
Halftime: 2-1 lead (7-4 on aggregate.) We have over 91,000 fans here today screaming loudly!
Schreurs picked up a minor injury and is limping badly. I'm putting Ortega in for him.
46 minute mark: Grygera picks up a serious injury and falls to the ground grabbing his ankle. I put Marchetti on for him.
51 minute mark: Wayne Bridge with a long diagonal cross to the far post... Ferro outjumps Salva and Howard... heads it... into the upper right corner.. GOAL. 2-2 game.
58 minute mark: Fletcher collides with Bridge and Fletcher is hurt. He has to come off. I put Godoy in for him.
61 minute mark: Rooney gets the ball at midfield.. dribbles down the left sideline.. past two defenders.. cuts towards the post.. dribbling along the baseline.. is he going to shoot.. draws another defender over.. fires a pass to the far post.. Ortega heads it.. the keeper dives.. gets a hand on it.. but it bounces in! GOAL!!!! 3-2! That is Ortega's 5th of the year.
76 minute mark: Rooney tries a 30 yard banana shot from midfield.. the keeper has a nice save.
Game over. 3-2 win for us
8-5 win on aggregate.
We outshot them 14-12 (10-6 on target)
Rooney wins MoM, 10 for form, 12 of 14 passes, 1 key pass, 0 tackles, 5 of 9 headers, 1 interception, 8 runs, 1 foul drawn, 1 assist, and 2 goals.