Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Chelsea vs. Manchester United recap

The Blues and Reds again faced off this weekend, with many Chelsea fans coming out of the game with many complaints. The refereeing overshadowed some beautiful goals by Robin Van Persie and Juan Mata; in other places, the scene was repeated, with Luis Suarez robbed of a winner in the Merseyside Darby and QPR losing points because of a clearly offside Mikel Arteta goal.

The game started bad early for Chelsea, with Robin Van Persie scoring a pair of goals withing the first fifteen minutes. The last fifteen minutes of the first half were dominated by Chelsea, and finally Juan Mata drained a beautiful free kick in the 44th minute to half the deficit. Fernando Torres caught a break just seconds later when he came in high on Tom Cleverly, getting only a yellow card. In the 53rd minute, Oscar put a cross back into the box for Ramires to head home the equaliser. Then, in the 63rd minute, the fun, or robbery of Blues fans, began. Ivanovic brought down an on goal Ashley Young, and was sent off for stopping a clear goal scoring opportunity. But that wasn't were the injustice started. When Torres was sent off for his second yellow for diving in the 69th minute. Getting sent off for diving is weak to start, but it was especially weak. It just didn't seem like it could even be worthy for a first yellow card, much less a match ending one. Now, with the West Londoners down two men, the Red Devils took the offensive. Only 6 minutes later, Javier Hernandez redirected a Rafael shot to score what eventually would be the game winner. But the key was that he was offside; he was even behind Petr Cech. The injustice was too great even for me; if there hadn't been other people watching the game with me, I would have turned the t.v. off. The game really ended there, as a 9 mine Chelsea couldn't hope to score against a 11 man United.

Now, a day after the game, Chelsea has filed complaints against referee Mark Clattenburg on the grounds that he racially abused John Obi Mikel and Juan Mata. It may seem like a bunch of vengance, but you can never know. See you next time.

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