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Scholes suspended for opening Champions League match

AFP - 30 août 2008 00:10

Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes (R) vies with Zenit St Petersburg´s Konstantin Zyryanov during their European Super Cup football match Manchester vs. St Petersburg, on August 29, 2008 in Monaco. Scholes is suspended for Manchester United´s opening Champions League match next month after being sent off in their 2-1 European Super Cup defeat to Zenit St Petersburg here on Friday.

MONACO (AFP) - Paul Scholes is suspended for Manchester United's opening Champions League match next month after being sent off in their 2-1 European Super Cup defeat to Zenit St Petersburg here on Friday.

The Red Devils midfielder was given his marching orders by referee Claus Bo Larsen in the final moments of the match following his second yellow card for deliberate handball.

United manager Alex Ferguson said afterwards: "It was a pity Scholes was sent off and he will miss the first Champions League match. It was a bit unfortunate but it happens."

Scholes will miss the Group E home match against Spaniards Villarreal on September 17. Scotland's Celtic and Aalborg of Denmark are the other teams in the pool.

Ferguson added England midfielder Owen Hargreaves, who has been struggling with tendinitis and hasn't made a first team appearance for United since helping win the Champions League in May, had been doing speed work in training for the last 10 days and had been disappointed he was not able to play in the match.

St Petersburg were the better team on the night in this annual battle between Champions League and UEFA Cup winners.

Ferguson had promised the Red Devils would not take the match as lightly as in 1999, when Lazio beat them 1-0, and his star players were on the pitch with the exception of Cristiano Ronaldo who was in the stands, still recovering from surgery.

Dick Advocaat's players went two goals ahead through Pavel Pogrebnyak a minute before the break and Danny with a half hour to go while Nemanja Vidic pulled a goal back in the 73rd minute for United.

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Info

Manchester Utd

W L D W W

1 - 2

Zenit St Petersburg

D W L D W
Compétition
Super Coupe de l'UEFA
Date
29 août 2008
Coup d'envoi
20:45
Mi-temps
0 - 1
Fin du temps réglementaire
1 - 2

Buts
0 - 1
0 - 2
59' Danny
1 - 2

Compositions d'équipes

Joueur Avertissements
E. van der Sar
R. Ferdinand
G. Neville Remplacé
N. Vidic
P. Evra
D. Fletcher Remplacé
P. Scholes 45' 90'
Nani
Anderson Remplacé 54'
C. Tévez 74'
W. Rooney

Remplacements

Joueur Avertissements

J. O'Shea Remplacé

for D. Fletcher 60'

Ji-Sung Park Remplacé

for Anderson 60'

W. Brown Remplacé

for G. Neville 76'
Joueur Avertissements
V. Malafeev
S. Puygrenier Remplacé
I. Krizanac Remplacé
A. Anyukov
A. Tymoschuk
Danny
R. Sirl
K. Ziryanov
I. Denisov
P. Pogrebnyak
A. Domínguez Remplacé

Remplacements

Joueur Avertissements

A. Arshavin Remplacé

for A. Domínguez 46'

R. Shirokov Remplacé

for S. Puygrenier 62'

V. Radimov Remplacé

for I. Krizanac 70'

Commentaires (18)

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Escape_to_Victory

30 août 2008 00:11

I like it when people get booted for diving and offences like this.

ajax72

30 août 2008 00:15

Is this the article covering the European Super Cup game? A mere 3 sentences? Is this place a manure franchise?

Tontodonati

30 août 2008 00:31

Ajax, when do we start betting on soccer games? I can't wait to get rich. I don't have too many years left to live!

SAJNSHE

30 août 2008 01:45

Well Done Zenit U won on my team so u must won against man utd

phughes699

30 août 2008 02:07

A good display by Zenith who were worthy winners.

RGPII1

30 août 2008 04:38

But we all can comment here and that is cool and since their is only a dozen or so of us, it almost makes us like pundits.

phughes699

30 août 2008 04:40

What Scholes was doing, God only knows.

Giorgio

30 août 2008 07:38

Well, last night ManU were outplayed and outclassed. And I've noticed that this usually happens when they play away from home against a team that moves the ball well.

In my opinion ManU may be European club champions, but they are definitely not the best in Europe.

And, as Ajax rightly points out, this article covers the European Super Cup game in only 3 sentences. I really believe that a far greater coverage would have been given, if ManU had won.

But then, we've always known which way SocceWay is biased !!!!!!

sefa_yesildal

30 août 2008 08:25

Betting? Bet squad? I am in !!

Pato01

30 août 2008 13:02

this goes long way confirming my position that zenith was selling all their matches in the Russian League.

BesTalentScout

30 août 2008 13:39

Man U lost ?

Yahooooo.........Wooohoooooo.........

any bad news for Man U is good news for me !

who cares a damn about Scholes...........he's no Maradona.........heck, i still play better than him on my worst day.............

Escape_to_Victory

30 août 2008 15:52

Why do people say it is only 3 paragraphs long, when it looks like it is about 8 one sentence paragraphs?

Last year: MUFC I think, were about the best team out there with C. Ronaldo but they only defeated Chelsea on a shootout and other clubs were weaker.

So Advocaat was coaching Zenit, no wonder they have a good team. The Russian league and their teams are doing well, good to see.

They re-aired this game late last night but I wasn't able to see it.

DaJohnner

31 août 2008 05:38

Hehehe....as predicted by yours truly, ManU without Queiroz and Ronaldo will win squat for the rest of this sesaon. And don't expect Ronaldo to change that. I predict he will not score 20 this year....likely about 10-12 (if even that).

DaJohnner

31 août 2008 05:39

Almost forgot...Well done Zenith!!!!

Cile_car

31 août 2008 15:51

It's Zenit, if you can't read. DaJohnner, I wouldn't be so brave if I were you, the "amazing" pairing for Torres and Keane were really "effective" against Liege.

ajax72

31 août 2008 20:41

The lamest CL winner ever. The russians could have won it with 3-4 goals margin but they simply had mercy for the bunch of lame mules calling themselves CL winners. And that's only the beginning of manure's misery-wait untill next December when they'll have to play for theClub World Cup.

Cile_car

1 septembre 2008 01:01

Ajax if I felt sorry for you when Ajax lost, now I feel a bit dissapointed. I didn't think you'd go as low as calling Manchester United manure. I'd expect that from BesTalentScout or the biggest Liverpool fan (Livershit in your case) - DaJohnner himself.

ajax72

1 septembre 2008 04:01

That's the closest to an affectionate word I can come up with in this specific case.

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