Manchester United: De Gea, Jones, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Valencia, Carrick, Rooney, Kagawa, Hernandez, van Persie. Subs: Lindegaard, Evans, Giggs, Smalling, Welbeck, Cleverley, Buttner.
14 Apr 2013
2:08PM
And we’re up and running. United wearing their change blue strip, Stoke in red and white stripes.
14 Apr 2013
2:11PM
GOAL! Stoke 0-1 Manchester United (Michael Carrick)
With just 4 minutes on the clock, the Potters concede from a corner. The ball is whipped in and when it’s not dealt with, Michael Carrick pokes the ball past Asmir Begovic.
14 Apr 2013
2:16PM
Ireland’s Jon Walters, playing wide left for Stoke today, has had a shot at goal but it’s well wide and doesn’t trouble David De Gea in the United goal.
14 Apr 2013
2:18PM
Carrick and Rooney exchange passes in the middle of the park and the England striker decides to have a pop from distance but Begovic punches clear.
Charlie Adam goes down in the United box but play is waved on and Robin van Persie gets the shot off down the other end moments later. Begovic saves once again.
14 Apr 2013
2:42PM
There’s a stoppage in play with Stoke defender Andy Wilkinson getting his head patched up after being on the receiving end of a boot from Javier Hernandez.
14 Apr 2013
2:44PM
Antonio Valencia concedes a free but the delivery from Adam isn’t a good one and United clear the ball.
14 Apr 2013
2:49PM
With a couple of minutes to half-time, the visitors have a free-kick thanks to a break from Shinji Kagawa. Rooney takes but his shot curls over the wall and off target.
14 Apr 2013
2:53PM
Stoke have their first corner of the day and De Gea punches away from Adam before the Scot wins another corner. The second delivery is played to the front post for Ryan Shawcross but the centre-half can’t direct his flick towards the goal.
14 Apr 2013
2:54PM
Half-time: Stoke 0-1 Manchester United
14 Apr 2013
3:09PM
The second half is off and running. No changes on either side.
14 Apr 2013
3:17PM
Robin van Persie, who has been quiet this afternoon, collects a great pass from Hernandez but can only find the sidenetting his his strike when you’d expect him to hit the target.
14 Apr 2013
3:21PM
A rare chance falls the way of Walters, who can’t capitalise and blazes over. Ryan Shotton heads down a cross to his team-mate and Walters blasts high and wide.
14 Apr 2013
3:24PM
Adams is next with an effort at De Gea’s goal. The former Liverpool midfielder shoots from distance and the United stopper collects comfortably.
14 Apr 2013
3:27PM
Carrick gets caught in possession and Kenwyne Jones, seeing a couple of yards open up in front of him, opts to shoot instead of picking out a fellow Stoke player. The attempt doesn’t find the target.
Meanwhile, Valencia has just picked up the first yellow of the afternoon.
14 Apr 2013
3:29PM
PENALTY TO MANCHESTER UNITED…
14 Apr 2013
3:32PM
GOAL! Stoke 0-2 Manchester United (Robin van Persie)
After Wilkinson brings the Dutchman down, he breaks his goalscoring drought by firing past Begovic.
14 Apr 2013
3:36PM
Stoke respond immediately through Shotton but De Gea is down quickly.
There are shouts for a penalty when Jones trips over Vidic, who has lost his footing, but play is waved on.
Tony Pulis has also just replaced Cameron with Jerome.
Stoke have just brought on Peter Crouch for Kenwyne Jones.
14 Apr 2013
3:57PM
Full-time: Stoke 0-2 Manchester United
14 Apr 2013
4:05PM
So United record a fairly routine win against the Potters to open up a 15-point gap between themselves and Manchester City, who have just kicked off against Chelsea in the second FA Cup semi-final.
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Delightful game to watch, no chance of Taylor missing so many doubles in the final as MVG did tonight. But if Cross keeps up his power scoring 103 odd average he will be very hard bet
@Darragh Morrissey: Was a good match to watch. I was only hoping for MVG would progress as he should be able to beat Taylor. Now, I’m fearful he will win but here’s hoping I’m wrong.
@davidMbyrne.com: Well said. The 42 could do with someone with a bit of darts knowledge such as yourself. Just one catch. You need to be from Dublin, preferably southside to be employed by us.
@Tom Allen: Listening to their Lions coverage, most of the guys doing the videos with Murray Kinsella had country accents on them. But good for you finding something that doesn’t exist to be upset about. Well done.
Crowd were despicable, really poor booing ‘the foreigner’. Lewis was being booed in the first semi final but at least the announcer addresses the crowd and asked them to stop. Anyway back to the match, MVG hasn’t deserved to progress to a final with his play. Can’t see Cross winning it, the fairytale would have been Taylor v MVG or Barney. I’ll be rooting for Cross but I wonder who the crowd will make it easier for; ah but they’re both English so they should be at the very least respectful. Uh hmmmm!!:
@Dan Finlay: spot on. I know van gerwen can come across as arrogant but so can Taylor. I ws trying to find another explanation than “not being english” but couldn’t. The crowd has been the worst ive remembered ever. The justin pipe thing too, no proof he actually made a sound.
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Delightful game to watch, no chance of Taylor missing so many doubles in the final as MVG did tonight. But if Cross keeps up his power scoring 103 odd average he will be very hard bet
@Darragh Morrissey: Sure just go to the bookies and bet away, it’s not hard to bet at all.
@Darragh Morrissey: Was a good match to watch. I was only hoping for MVG would progress as he should be able to beat Taylor. Now, I’m fearful he will win but here’s hoping I’m wrong.
It was a cracker. The crowed were disgraceful at times though.
‘Unheralded’. This is no surprise. The guy has been shti hot all year. Nice of you to comment on him now.
@davidMbyrne.com: Well said. The 42 could do with someone with a bit of darts knowledge such as yourself. Just one catch. You need to be from Dublin, preferably southside to be employed by us.
@Tom Allen: Listening to their Lions coverage, most of the guys doing the videos with Murray Kinsella had country accents on them. But good for you finding something that doesn’t exist to be upset about. Well done.
Thought this was a sports website… Darts is a game, like monopoly
@blueman79: if you don’t like darts like many people don’t go into the article and make a silly comment
Crowd were despicable, really poor booing ‘the foreigner’. Lewis was being booed in the first semi final but at least the announcer addresses the crowd and asked them to stop. Anyway back to the match, MVG hasn’t deserved to progress to a final with his play. Can’t see Cross winning it, the fairytale would have been Taylor v MVG or Barney. I’ll be rooting for Cross but I wonder who the crowd will make it easier for; ah but they’re both English so they should be at the very least respectful. Uh hmmmm!!:
@Dan Finlay: spot on. I know van gerwen can come across as arrogant but so can Taylor. I ws trying to find another explanation than “not being english” but couldn’t. The crowd has been the worst ive remembered ever. The justin pipe thing too, no proof he actually made a sound.