Minute-by-Minute: Gamba Osaka vs Manchester United

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Endo with a good free kick and VDS makes a good, but reasonably comfortable, save. He was in a great position to save it.

Bando gets the rebound and nearly scores, but again it's high and wide.
 
Darren Fletcher readying himself to come on.

Just like to make a slightly irrelevant comment, but it seems that Tevez does encourage a fluid formation more than anyone else in this team and that underlines his importance to the team for me.

Scholes off for Fletcher.
 
Evans on for Vidic. Lookes like a precaution because he's moving freely enough and he's not gone straight down the tunnel.
 
Goal Osaka

Fantastic goal by Osaka, poor defending from the midfielders and the defence is cut apart by a nice pass and great finish.
 
Goal United

Great ball by Fletcher puts Rooney in, who takes advantage of some poor defending and finishes expertly.
 
Osaka nearly scoring. Endo's shot saved brilliantly again by Van der Sar. Neville tackles Bando brilliantly to prevent him scoring a tap-in.

Suddenly this game is AWESOME again.
 
Ronaldo nearly gets his head on another Giggs corner.

Endo hits a dipping shot which VDS struggles to keep hold of and it nearly falls to an Osaka player for an open goal.

Gary Neville comes in and makes a fantastic tackle.

The game has come alive!
 
Goal United

Great build-up play by Nani and Evra, who then chips in a nice cross and Fletcher nods the ball in after an increasingly typical late run into the box by him.
 
Goal United

Unbelievable!

Rooney scores again, the defence is just ripped apart after some good play by Nani and a nice through ball by Giggs.

Brilliantly incisive, but awful defending.
 
This game is suddenly amazing. And all you suckers stuck at work have to console yourselves with is my charm and wit.

Meanwhile, United give away another freekick in a dangerous position. Looks like Endo will try again.
 
Rooney nearly gets in behind again but well cut out by Osaka. Really underlines how great Rooney's movement is, right up there with the best in the world and exactly why he can play this role brilliantly.

Free kick by Endo which is straight at VDS after a foul by Anderson. PLenty of power, not a lot of accuracy.

Rooney gets booked for stupidly being overly aggressive.
 
Great ball out by Fletcher to Nani who plays it to Rooney. He dummies it and Fletcher nearly runs onto the pass.

Penalty Osaka! Handball by Neville, apparently.

Harsh but you can see why he gave it.
 
Goal Osaka

Very comfortably placed into VDS' right corner by Endo.

Dived the right way but couldn't do anything about it.
 
Some frantic play in the middle of the pitch, now. Both teams seem to be over eager to attack and neither can really get a foothold in the centre. Still, makes for an exciting game!
 
Great cross in by Osaka from the left well defended by Evra, comes out to the right and another cross comes in. Lucas gets his head on it but it's well wide.
 
Endo with a shot after a bit of goal mouth scramble in our box. Saved by Van der Sar, but Osaka come straight back. Corner to Osaka.

Lucas gets his head on the ball but puts it wide. Should really have scored.

Three minutes of additional time.
 
Lucas is free in the centre of the box for a corner and misses, very poor miss.
 
GOAL - GAMBA OSAKA!

Fantastic play and finish. The United defence totally switched off, and Hashimoto with plenty of time to belt the ball into the top corner. 5 - 3!
 
Goal Osaka

Great goal by Hashimoto! Poor defending again, down the left hand side of our defence. Great, powerful finish though and VDS could have done nothing about it.
 
Good save by the Osaka keeper from a great Ronaldo shot.

Giggs was through on goal but he was taken down cynically by the Osaka defender.
 
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