^What it's was all about^
Team Changes: Man United came into this match knowing that West Ham would put up a real fight. Berbatov was injured so Tevez came into the team to partner Wayne Rooney upfront. Welbeck started on the bench. The rest of the team was the starting XI.
The match started at a pretty fast pace but from then it became a bit of a snore fest as West Ham put most of their players behind the ball. The first chance fell to Tevez in the 11th minute. Carrick played a wonderful chipped through ball to Tevez and he timed his run perfectly before volleying the ball. It looked like it was destined to go in but it clipped the top of the bar instead.
The game was contested mostly in the midfield and it looked like both teams were going to go in to the dressing rooms all level. That was not the case though because in the 40th minute Tevez flicked a ball over the top of the West Ham defence to Ronaldo who let the ball bounce before firing it low beyond Rob Green.
Man United had a few chances in the second half and it took some good goalkeeping by Rob Green to stop Man United going further ahead. It is really amazing how he isn’t England’s first choice keeper.
West Ham managed to equalise in the 77th minute when the ball was whipped into the box. Van Der Sar came out to try and collect the ball but Carlton Cole just got their before him and nodded it into the net. Man United replied immediately. Tevez got the ball from the kick-off and ran at the West Ham defence. He got to the edge of the box before pulling the ball back to Rooney and he smashed it low into the bottom corner.
United brought on Anderson and Park for Scholes and Giggs for the last 10 minutes. Carrick thought that he had sealed the win for United in the 85th minute but when he was reeling away to celebrate he saw that the linesman had raised his flag.