Manchester United 3-0 Chelsea: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 11 January 2009
Result
Manchester United 3-0 Chelsea
Premier League · Sunday 11 January 2009, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Manchester United 3-0 Chelsea: match report
Manchester United won against Chelsea 3-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 11 January 2009. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Nemanja Vidić opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Manchester United's goals came from Nemanja Vidić (45+2'), Wayne Rooney (62') and Dimitar Berbatov (86'). Chelsea did not score.
Discipline: Manchester United received 3 yellow cards; Chelsea received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Manchester United were 4th on 38 points from 18 and Chelsea 2nd on 42 points from 20. Manchester United went on to finish that season 1st with 90 points, and Chelsea 3rd with 83.
Manchester United lined up in a 4-4-2 and Chelsea in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Manchester United wins, 5 draws and 3 for Chelsea.
Going into the match Manchester United's last five read W-W-D-W-W and Chelsea's D-W-D-D-W.
Key events
- 4'Yellow card · Frank Lampard
- 27'Yellow card · José Bosingwa
- 28'Yellow card · Ricardo Carvalho
- 28'Yellow card · Cristiano Ronaldo
- 45+2'Goal · Nemanja Vidić
- 62'Goal · Wayne Rooney
- 66'Yellow card · Wayne Rooney
- 68'Yellow card · Ji-Sung Park
- 81'Yellow card · John Terry
- 86'Goal · Dimitar Berbatov
- 87'Yellow card · Juliano Belletti
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester United expected line-up (4-4-2)
Edwin van der Sar, Rio Ferdinand, John O'Shea, Patrice Evra, Wes Brown, Darren Fletcher, Park Ji-Sung, Michael Carrick, Cristiano Ronaldo, Louis Saha
Chelsea expected line-up (4-3-3)
Petr Čech, Wayne Bridge, Ricardo Carvalho, Michael Ballack, Florent Malouda, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Nicolas Anelka, Juliano Haus Belletti, Claude Makélélé