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FA Cup Middlesbrough - Fan Football

Manchester United and Chelsea through to FA cup semi-finals

March 20th 2007 04:05
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Manchester United and Chelsea kept their 'treble' and 'quadruple' dreams alive after scoring wins over Middlesbrough and Tottenham in the FA cup quarter-final replays respectively.

The Red Devils went through courtesy of Cristiano Ronaldo's second-half penalty when the winger took a tumble under a Jonathan Woodgate tackle.

Up stepped Ronaldo to convert his own penalty past Boro's Aussie keeper Mark Schwarzer to send Middlesbrough tumbling out of the FA cup for another season.

In injury time, Boro substitute James Morrison was given a straight red-card for a reckless lunge on Ronaldo that sent the winger flying and sparked a touch-line tussle between the assistant coaches of both clubs.

Andriy Shevchenko


Meanwhile at White Hart Lane, Tottenham's surrendering of a 3-1 lead at Stamford Bridge came back to haunt them as superb second-half strikes from Andriy Shevchenko and Shaun Wright-Phillips sent Chelsea on their way to a 2-1 win and a place in the semi-finals.

If Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko had started to look a glimpse of his former self in recent weeks, then he confirmed he was well and truly back over-night with a gem of a goal.

Entering the penalty area from the right flank on 55 minutes, Shevchenko beat Steed Malbranque by cleverly checking his run, in the process switching the ball to his left boot.

He then arced a shot pass the helpless Paul Robinson into the top corner with a simply unstoppable shot.

The lead was doubled just after the hour mark with Didier Drogba trapping a long ball with his chest for Wright-Phillips to volley home first time for an equally impressive goal.

Spurs striker Robbie Keane converted a penalty in the 79th minute but it was too little too late.

Manchester United will now meet Watford and Chelsea will meet Blackburn in the FA cup semi-finals.

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Man Utd and Middlesbrough through to FA Cup Quarter Final

February 28th 2007 03:27
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Manchester United and Middlesbrough will meet each other in the quarter finals of the FA Cup with wins against Reading and West Brom respectively overnight.

The Red Devils made a blistering start with all three goals in the first six minutes of the game coming from defender Gabriel Heinze and strikers Louis Saha and Ole Gunnar Solksjaer.



Reading refused to give up after this catastrophic set-back and took the game to the Premier League leaders by scoring two goals in but eventually came up short on what would have been a come-back of seismic proportions.

Middlesbrough again had to thank Socceroos striker Mark Viduka for scoring the vital equaliser that sent the game into extra-time and then penalties.

With both sides locked at 1-1 after extra-time, penalties loomed and Boro went on to win 5-4 in the shoot-out to setup a quarter final clash against Manchester United at home.
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Middlesbrough 2 - 2 Bristol City

February 14th 2007 03:18
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Socceroos Mark Viduka and Mark Schwarzer helped their club side Middlesbrough to a thrilling penalties win in the FA cup overnight.

League one outfit Bristol City put up an amazing fight throughout the match to showcase just how tough and exciting the oldest cup competition in the world still is with Boro only just managing to scrape into the fifth round courtesy of the Aussie keeper's heroics between the sticks.

Bristol City took the lead in the 23rd minute and it took Viduka to come off the bench (he had initially been rested for this game) to equalise before Ayegbeni Yakubu had seemingly put the tie beyond the reach of Bristol in the 102nd minute.

Bristol dug deep and found an equaliser in the 117th minute to send the tie into a penalty shootout and this set the stage for Schwarzer to strut his stuff.

Schwarzer got Boro off to the perfect start by saving Jevon's opening attempt - and then, after Yakubu had hit the post with the scores at 4-4, the Australian kept out Woodman's effort to set the scene for Johnson to finally end the tension.

After the game, Viduka heaped praise on Bristol City: "It was one of those classic cup ties."

Middlesbrough will now meet West Brom in the fifth round.

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