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The Final
3pm, Saturday 19 May 2007
Wembley Stadium
Winning club receives £1,000,000
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Didier Drogba scores with four monutes of extra-time remaining to give Chelsea the lead.
First Half Action
0 mins The moment has arrived, The first ever FA Cup Final at the new Wembley Stadium kicks off. Manchester United attack the west end where the Chelsea fans sit.
3' Drogba heads over from
11' Joe Cole gets a ticking off for a late challenge on Wes Brown
15' Rooney shoots wide after Fletcher header down, but the flag on the near side was up for offside.
22' Space opens up for Didier Drogba and he carries the ball forward before having a try from 25 yards, but the ball flashes wide of van der Sar’s goal.
28' Linesman’s flag goes up again for Rooney who looked to be clean through on goal with Ronaldo. Rooney was offside, but had the Portuguese taken it on, he’d have had a one on one with Petr Cech.
31' Paulo Ferreira makes a run into the box from the right before sliding into the feet of Frank Lampard, but his first time shot is saved low by van der Sar.
32' Shaun Wright-Phillips sends a first time shot from the edge of the box over the bar.
35' Ronaldo has his first chance, bringing down a long ball from Paul Scholes inside the box, his left foot shot went wide of the target from 12 yards.
37' Lampard tries his luck from the left hand side 25 yards out, but the ball flew just over the bar.
39' United work a decent opening on the edge of the box with Carrick and Ronaldo linking up. Giggs’ final ball in is cleared by Essien.
40' Rooney puts another effort wide from the six yard line, but the flag went up early.
45' Steve Bennett has a chat with Paul Scholes after he up-ended Wright-Phillips just inside the United half.
Second Half Action
46' SUBSTITUTE Chelsea make a half-time substitution bringing on Arjen Robben for Joe Cole.
47' Solo effort from Rooney, beaten away by Cech. Giggs follows up on the rebound, and Cech saves again, but the Welshman was offside.
56' Rooney breaks free from the United box shrugging off Frank Lampard before taking on three defenders. His run is finally brought to an end on the Chelsea 18 yard line by Paulo Ferreira.
57' Scholes picks out Giggs’ run on the left with a precise lofted pass which United’s captain volleys just over the bar from the corner of the six yard box.
59' YELLOW CARD: Paul Scholes is the first to go into the book following his foul on Frank Lampard in a dangerous area on the corner of the United area.
60' Drogba’s free-kick from around the outside of the wall is hard and low but hits the outside of the right hand post.
60' Giggs put through on goal but is offside.
63' Robben fires in a low cross from the left after beating Darren Fletcher for pace. Van der Sar punches clear.
64' Another powerful Rooney run in the left hand channel. After beating Michael Essien, his run took him into the box and Cech saved well at the feet of the England striker
65' Handball from Makelele in an interesting position for United 23 yards out. Ronaldo fires the free-kick straight into the Chelsea wall.
67' Arjen Robben goes down under a heavy challenge from Wes Brown.
70' Carrick sneaks a ball through the crowd, beating the offside trap, to put Giggs free on the left. Essien is back covering though and forces the ball out for a corner.
76' Drogba powers his way through the middle and it takes two United players to unsettle him, one of those, Vidic, stays down inside the box for treatment following yet another heavyweight tussle.
84' YELLOW CARD: Makelele booked for a late foul on Scholes inside the centre-circle.
85' YELLOW CARD: Nemanja Vidic booked for tugging at Frank Lampard. Lampard’s shot from the free-kick 35 yards out smashes into the United wall.
88' A quiet game for Ronaldo and a rare sight at goal. Cutting in from the right he shoots low with his left into the side netting.
90' Rooney again goes at Ferreira down the left after being played in by Carrick. Essien once more though halted Rooney as he cut in on the bye-line.
90' + 2 Giggs free-kick from the left is flicked on by Vidic but it sails over the bar. Steve Bennett blows for the end of normal time.
Chelsea
1 Petr Cech, 4 Claude Makelele, 5 Michael Essien, 8 Frank Lampard, 10 Joe Cole (16 Arjen Robben, 46 (3 Ashley Cole, 108)), 11 Didier Drogba, 12 John Obi Mikel, 18 Wayne Bridge, 20 Paulo Ferreira, 24 Shaun Wright-Phillips (21 Salomon Kalou, 94), 26 John Terry (c)
Subs: 23 Carlo Cudicini, 19 Lassana Diarra.
Manager Jose Mourinho
Manchester United
1 Edwin van der Sar, 4 Gabriel Heinze, 5 Rio Ferdinand, 6 Wes Brown, 7 Cristiano Ronaldo, 8 Wayne Rooney, 11 Ryan Giggs (c) (20 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, 112), 15 Nemanja Vidic, 16 Michael Carrick (22 John O'Shea, 112), 18 Paul Scholes, 24 Darren Fletcher (14 Alan Smith, 92)
Subs: 3 Patrice Evra, 29 Thomas Kuszczak
Manager Sir Alex Ferguson
Attendance 89, 826
Match Officials
Referee Steve Bennett
Assistant Referees Peter Kirkup and David Bryan
Fourth Official Howard Webb
Chief Guest Prince William
Team Colours
Chelsea Blue shirts, blue shorts, white socks
Manchester United Red shirts, white shorts, black sock
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