Another Draw For Manchester United

Javier Hernan­dez

It was another dis­ap­point­ing draw for Manchester United as they blew a one goal lead against Alan Pardew´s New­castle United team at Old Traf­ford on Sat­urday after­noon. A goal by Manchester United goal plun­derer Javier Hernan­dez put the hosts ahead shortly after the resump­tion before the vis­it­ing side evened the score thanks to a pen­alty from Senegal inter­na­tional Demba Ba in the 62nd minute of the game.

Both teams had their chances to score dur­ing the first half but the two defences held firm until the half time whistle. The Manchester United fans had to endure a mere four minutes into the second period, how­ever, before Javier Hernan­dez man­aged to open the scor­ing account after New­castle defender Steven Taylor had blocked a power­ful shot from Wayne Rooney. The Mag­pies almost equal­ised in the 60th minute but Fab­ri­cio Coloccini´s fero­cious effort was magic­ally saved by David de Gea in the Manchester United goal. After 62 minutes of play, a tackle from cent­ral defender Rio Ferdin­and on French winger Hatem Ben Arfa inside the box gave the vis­it­ors a con­tro­ver­sial pen­alty which Demba Ba slot­ted home to make the sco­reline read 1–1. There was even more drama in the 79th minute, though. when Argen­tina player Jonas Guti­er­rez was given his march­ing orders for his second yel­low card offence. While Manchester United remained unin­spired, Javier Hernan­dez remained their biggest threat. The Mex­ican striker had the ball in the net in stoppage–time but he was ruled off­side by ref­eree Mike Jones. With Manchester City draw­ing 1–1 with Liv­er­pool at Anfield, Manchester United are still five points behind Roberto Mancini´s play­ers in the Premier League title race.

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