Chelsea 1-1 Manchester United: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 21 September 2008
Result
Chelsea 1-1 Manchester United
Premier League · Sunday 21 September 2008, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Chelsea 1-1 Manchester United: match report
Chelsea drew with Manchester United 1-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 21 September 2008. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Ji-Sung Park opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Chelsea's goal came from Salomon Kalou (79'). Manchester United scored through Ji-Sung Park (18').
Discipline: Chelsea received 1 yellow card; Manchester United received 7 yellow cards.
Going into the game Chelsea were 3rd on 10 points from 4 and Manchester United 15th on 4 points from 3. Chelsea went on to finish that season 3rd with 83 points, and Manchester United 1st with 90.
Chelsea lined up in a 4-3-3 and Manchester United in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Chelsea wins, 5 draws and 2 for Manchester United.
Going into the match Chelsea's last five read W-D-W-W and Manchester United's L-W-D.
Key events
- 18'Goal · Ji-Sung Park
- 35'Yellow card · Paul Scholes
- 41'Yellow card · Rio Ferdinand
- 58'Yellow card · Gary Neville
- 59'Yellow card · Dimitar Berbatov
- 67'Yellow card · John Obi Mikel
- 79'Goal · Salomon Kalou
- 79'Yellow card · Wayne Rooney
- 86'Yellow card · Patrice Evra
- 90'Yellow card · Cristiano Ronaldo
Head-to-head
Team news
Chelsea expected line-up (4-3-3)
Petr Čech, Wayne Bridge, Ricardo Carvalho, Michael Ballack, Florent Malouda, Michael Essien, Nicolas Anelka, Juliano Haus Belletti, Claude Makélélé
Manchester United expected line-up (4-3-3)
Rio Ferdinand, John O'Shea, Mikaël Silvestre, Patrice Evra, Michael Carrick, Darren Fletcher, Cristiano Ronaldo, Louis Saha