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  • Tello (20)
  • Date:2009-11-25
  • Kick-off:19:45
  • Venue:Old Trafford
  • Attendance:74242
  • Referee:Lannoy, S

Live Commentary

90mins

Full-Time: MAN UTD 0-1 BESIKTAS.

90mins

Carrick's shot is straight at Rustu and that should be that.

90mins

Rustu is booked for some timewasting.

90mins

Rustu excels again, tipping away a Brown header from the corner. What a fantastic save that was.

90mins

Rustu makes a superb finger-tip save as Anderson dinks in a cross and Macheda heads goalwards from five yards out.

90mins

Carrick tries a left-foot shot from 25 yards, but his effort is a couple of yards too high.

90mins

Five added minutes to be played.

90mins

Obertan again tricks his way past his marker before delivering a wasteful cross.

90mins

Into the final minute of normal time.

89mins

Still United battle to find an equaliser.

87mins

Evra's shot is deflected away for a corner, which is cleared.

86mins

Evra goes down in the box, but the referee waives play on. United were a shade unlucky there.

85mins

Batuhan is booked after 14 seconds for kicking the ball away.

84mins

Final change for Besiktas, Bobo off and Batuhan Karadeniz on.

83mins

Evra tries his luck from distance and Rustu is down to make a comfortable save.

81mins

Brown does well to dispossess Bobo as Besiktas threaten on a rare counter.

81mins

Carrick wastes the opportunity with an appalling free-kick.

80mins

Welbeck wins a free-kick 20 yards from goal.

78mins

United are camped in the Besiktas half, can they find a way through?

75mins

Goalscorer Tello limps off and Ugur Inceman takes his place.

75mins

Neville plays Obertan in down the right, but again his cross is poor and goes out for a goal-kick.

74mins

Gibson makes way for Carrick and Rafael trots off and Patrice Evra comes on.

72mins

The zip shown early on by the likes of Gibson and Welbeck has all but disappeared.

70mins

Gibson's free-kick from 25 yards is more of a backpass than an effort on goal.

69mins

Just over 20 minutes to go of a game that has hardly been a stirring advert for the over-hyped Champions League.

68mins

United introduce Owen for Park.

67mins

Erhan Guven takes the place of Toraman.

66mins

The game has resumed.

63mins

Play is halted for a head wound to Toraman.

62mins

Macheda drifts in a fine cross from the left and Obertan's flicked header lands on the roof of the net.

61mins

Obertan drives forward and his low, left-footer is tipped away for a corner by Rustu.

60mins

Park finds space on the left, but cannot find the right ball in to create a chance.

59mins

Nearly an hour played and United are poised to make some changes.

56mins

Gibson makes a superb break from near to his own box and in the end his pass finds Park, who lashes a left-footer wide of target from just outside the area.

55mins

Tello fires the free-kick miles over the top of Foster's goal.

54mins

Gibson brings down Bobo 25 yards from goal and is lucky to escape a booking.

52mins

Welbeck gets in a shot from 20 yards, but it's high and wide of target.

50mins

It's Besiktas' turn to knock the ball around now.

48mins

Obertan makes a fine run across from the right and feeds Rafael, but his shot is booted clear by Ibrahim Toraman.

47mins

A slow start to the second period, with United playing keep-ball.

46mins

United get the second half underway.

45mins

Half-Time: MAN UTD 0-1 BESIKTAS.

43mins

Obertan shows off more trickery before his attempted cross goes out for a goal-kick.

41mins

Besiktas should have been two goals up as a superb move ends with Fink hitting the outside of the post from 12 yards, when he should have done better.

38mins

Gibson shoots from 35 yards and his effort is still rising at it heads into the stand behind the goal.

37mins

There's very little sparkle in the game, it's being played at a very slow pace.

35mins

Besiktas launch a superb counter-attack which ends with Wes Brown heading behind for a corner.

34mins

Just over ten minutes to half-time and United still cannot find a way through.

31mins

Rustu makes an excellent block as Obertan blasts in a shot after a fine pass from Welbeck.

30mins

Obertan does a few step-overs, before delivering a poor cross, less showing-off and more substance would do.

29mins

Nearly half an hour played and it's been mostly United, but yet Besiktas lead by the only goal.

26mins

Welbeck finds space down the right this time and his shot to the near post is blocked by the legs of Rustu.

25mins

Obertan plays the ball in towards Welbeck, but it's just too strong and Rustu gathers with ease.

23mins

Welbeck wriggles away on the left, but his shot goes into the sidenetting at Rustu's near post.

21mins

That came out of nothing, but United falling a goal behind has had no affect on an almost silent crowd.

20mins

MAN UTD 0-1 BESIKTAS, Rodrigo TELLO picks up the ball all of 30 yards out on the right and his left-footer beats Foster going down low to his right side.

18mins

Welbeck and Macheda link up well and the latter fires a left-footer narrowly wide of target from 20 yards out.

17mins

Macheda heads wide from a Park cross, but he has been penalised for a push.

15mins

Gibson has another effort on goal, but his 25-yarder is well wide of Rustu's goal.

13mins

Anderson's flag-kick is met by Nemanja Vidic, but he cannot direct his header on target.

13mins

Darron Gibson's shot is deflected onto the roof of the net for a corner.

11mins

Gary Neville gives the ball away and Rogerio Da Silva Bobo fires a shot well wide from 25 yards out.

9mins

Michael Fink cracks in a shot from distance, but it's straight at the waiting Ben Foster.

6mins

Besiktas need a win to have any chance of progressing, but they are under pressure as Rustu Recber blocks a Park Ji-Sung shot.

5mins

Macheda breaks down the left and his ball into the area finds Welbeck, but his shot is blocked.

4mins

A slightly subdued atmosphere at Old Trafford as there's little importance to this game.

2mins

United have enjoyed the better of the opening exchanges.

1mins

The action gets underway at Old Trafford.

0mins

Danny Welbeck and Federico Macheda lead the home attack, with Gabriel Obertan also making a start.

0mins

The Red Devils have already secured a place in the knockout stages and boss Sir Alex Ferguson has rested a host of first-team regulars.

0mins

Manchester United host Besiktas at Old Trafford in their latest Champions League Group B game.


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Match Report

Manchester United suffered a rare home defeat in the Champions League as they went down 1-0 to Turkish side Besiktas.

Danny Welbeck and Federico Macheda led the home attack, with Gabriel Obertan also making a start, while the likes of Michael Owen, Michael Carrick, Paul Scholes and Darren Fletcher all started on the bench.

United dominated the early minutes, with Darron Gibson to the fore and 13 minutes in Anderson's flag-kick was met by Nemanja Vidic, but he failed to direct his header on target.

However, an already quiet Old Trafford was silenced 20 minutes in as Rodrigo Tello picked up the ball all of 30 yards out on the right and his left-footer beat Ben Foster going away to his right, with the aid of a slight deflection.

Welbeck almost found an equaliser when visiting keeper Rustu Recber made a fine block following another fluent United move and the same player denied Gabriel Obertan with a similar save on the half-hour mark.

Four minutes before the half-time interval Besiktas passed up a superb chance to double their advantage, as a quickfire counter-attack ended with Michael Fink sidefooting against the outside of the post from 12 yards when he should have done better.

The second half got off to a slow start, with United struggling to find a way through a packed visitors' defence.

Just past the hour mark Obertan drove forward and his low, left-footer was tipped away for a corner by Rustu.

From that point on United rarely looked like getting back into the game, but in added-on time they carved out a couple of excellent openings.

First Rustu made a superb finger-tip save after Anderson dinked in a cross and Macheda flicked a header goalwards from five yards out.

From the resulting corner Rustu did even better to tip away a Wes Brown header and his efforts ensured that Besiktas held on to record a famous victory.

Manchester United

Besiktas

Corners

71

Fouls

1210

Goal attempts

206

Shots off target

123

Offsides

33

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