HOWARD: One excellent second half save from Gudjohnsen 7
G NEVILLE: Blocked off the double threat of Cole and Bridge 7
O'SHEA: The Irishman had an even battle with Gronkjaer 6
BROWN: One dodgy moment but otherwise handled the one-man Chelsea attack comfortably 6
SILVESTRE: Shared duties on Gudjohnsen well with Brown 6
RONALDO: Crowd pleasing first half but faded in second 7
FLETCHER: Battling qualities very evident but a couple of loose moments let him down 6
P NEVILLE: Anchored the midfield without being dominant 6
GIGGS: Couldn't get into his most dangerous stride despite seeing a lot of ball 6
SCHOLES: Referee Bennett and Fergie deserve his thanks for his Cup Final place 6
VAN NISTELROOY: The striker Looked ring-rusty by his lively standards but alert in the one sniff of goal from outfield play 6
Substitutes
SAHA (Scholes 36): Was a threat 7
KLEBERSON (P Neville 78): Couldn't really get into it 5
SOLSKJAER (sub Ronaldo 87) - No time to make impact 5
Referee: S Bennett - Great restraint 7
Attendance: 67,609
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Errr Ronaldo, faded in the second half? Got no bloody service more like. Too much of the long ball over the middle.
Another lifeless performance. When are we going to see a return to the days of attacking,entertaining winning football we deserve. There is absolutely no creativity in the team. Ronaldo is the one shining light.
Giggs 6,??? Please tell me for what.Did another giggs appear on the field who I didn`t see?
Giggs 6 what game did you watch?Giggs was absolutely useless a rating of 1 would have been too high.
If those are your ratings for a dreadful Man U team, you would have to give 10 to every Chelsea player.
How the hell can Ronaldo gets 7 and Giggs 6. Ronaldo was outstanding in the first half, and I was very surprised when he was taken off. In the second half he was not given the ball. I'm sorry but Giggs is getting a lot of the ball and wasting it. I do not know what his problem is, but he's gone off the boil again, and is looking a very average player. We need to sign a left winger to push him to increase his performance or out of the door. One more thing, why is he captain. The captain leads by example, unfortunately he is giving the wrong example to his fellow players!!!
Sort of sums up the last few games really, no one really awful, no one really good. Could equally well have been 5's and 6's all round. For all their passing don't reckon Chelsea's ratings would be that different either: they didn't create that much and we had the best spell of either side after our equaliser. Giggs didn't do much, but it wasn't one of his utterly infuriating games either. Fletcher looked good on the highlights but they didn't show the times he took about 20 minutes to decide on a pass. Saha and Ronaldo had good 15-20 minute spells but then dropped out a bit. Thought Kleb was OK apart from one poor ballooned pass to the left wing, but then again he slotted into the more advanced position that Fletcher had been occupying. Still, given that most of the players were in their proper positions it should really have been somewhat better.
I thought Fletcher's performance deserved a better rating. He has improved greatly in terms of taking control of proceedings. I was pleasantly surprised to see him run around asking for the ball like Keane usually does. It looks like he's confident enough to start running games now that he feels established in the 1st team. What price he gets his 1st United goal against Millwall?
pity that these guys are not paid based on their commitment . what a 'spineless' performance by most of them . lets hope we see martin o'neil before more damage is done .