In the end the game was not the best and only livened up in the last 5 minutes courtesy of Juan Mata deflected shot and villain of the peace David Luis. United have not been at there fluent best in the last few weeks and only 2 league wins in the last 6 has seen signs of players looking forward to the summer break.
They have deserved that but the performance on Sunday was well under the par. It was the first time since late 2009 have United failed to score at Old Trafford in a league game when Aston Villa earned a famous 1-0 win.
United made several changes with Lindegaard, Cleverley and Anderson all making rare starts. The first half really offered very little but Chelsea started brightly when Demba Ba went close but United nearly scored following good work by RVP but Cleverley blazed the ball over the bar. Oscar perhaps the brightest on the pitch had a shot tipped onto the post by Lindegaard.
Chelsea had restricted United whilst Luis went close with a long range effort but towards the end of the half United had two close chances when RVP wriggled his way through the centre halves and his shot went narrowly wide and moments later Giggs met a cross but his shot went wide.
The second half was pretty dreadful with both cancelling each other out but the last 10 minutes saw plenty of action when Rafael ran onto a deflected ball in the box and ready to square the ball to RVP in front of goal Ivanovic cleared the danger. It started to niggle when Jones was booked for body checking Ramires and Luis booked for dissent plus RVP and Torres had a verbal exchange. The 87th minute saw Juan Mata dink inside the box and his shot deflected of Phil Jones and the deadlock was broken. Cue mayhem in the last minute when Rafael retaliated at Luis and lashed out, he got a red card whilst Luis fell to the floor with the grace of a swan! Luis did himself no favours but Rafael did deserve to go as retaliation is not accepted.
The match ended and it was hard to pick a man of the match for United but Jonny Evans stood out in the wave of attacks Chelsea did produce. Next up is Swansea at home and the presentation of number 20.
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