2008 FA Community Shield

2008 FA Community Shield

Match programme cover
Event FA Community Shield
Manchester United Portsmouth
0 0
Manchester United won 3–1 on penalties
Date 10 August 2008
Venue Wembley Stadium, London
Referee Peter Walton
Attendance 84,808
Weather Rain
20 °C (68 °F)[1]

The 2008 FA Community Shield was a football match played on 10 August 2008 between 2007–08 Premier League champions Manchester United and 2007–08 FA Cup winners Portsmouth as the "curtain-raiser" to the 2008–09 English football season.[2] The match marked the 100th year since the first Charity Shield, also won by Manchester United after a replay in August 1908.

Manchester United won the game 3–1 on penalties, after the match finished 0–0 after 90 minutes; the Community Shield no longer plays extra time if the teams are level at the end of normal time.

The match was the second meeting between the two teams in the space of two weeks, after they had played each other in a friendly in Nigeria on 27 July 2008. It was also the first Community Shield since 1996 to feature a team from outside the big four of Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool. With this Community Shield title, United extended their record number of wins in the competition to 13 (17 including shared titles).

Match details

Manchester United
Portsmouth
GK 1 Netherlands Edwin van der Sar
RB 2 England Gary Neville (c)  61'  66'
CB 5 England Rio Ferdinand
CB 15Serbia Nemanja Vidić  45'
LB 3 France Patrice Evra
RM 24Scotland Darren Fletcher
CM 18England Paul Scholes
CM 22Republic of Ireland John O'Shea  66'
LM 17Portugal Nani  79'
SS 11Wales Ryan Giggs
CF 32Argentina Carlos Tevez
Substitutes:
GK 29Poland Tomasz Kuszczak
DF 6 England Wes Brown  66'
DF 21Brazil Rafael
DF 23Northern Ireland Jonny Evans
MF 16England Michael Carrick  66'
MF 34Brazil Rodrigo Possebon
FW 31England Fraizer Campbell  79'
Manager:
Scotland Sir Alex Ferguson
GK 1 England David James
RB 5 England Glen Johnson
CB 15France Sylvain Distin  37'
CB 23England Sol Campbell (c)
LB 7 Iceland Hermann Hreiðarsson  79'
RM 8 Senegal Papa Bouba Diop
CM 30Portugal Pedro Mendes  75'
CM 6 France Lassana Diarra
LM 19Croatia Niko Kranjčar  60'
CF 9 England Peter Crouch
CF 14England Jermain Defoe
Substitutes:
GK 21England Jamie Ashdown
DF 4 Cameroon Lauren  79'
DF 20England Martin Cranie
DF 32Mali Djimi Traoré
MF 18France Arnold Mvuemba  75'
FW 17Nigeria John Utaka  60'
FW 26Israel Ben Sahar
Manager:
England Harry Redknapp

Match officials

Man of the match

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores level.
  • Seven named substitutes.
  • Maximum of 6 substitutions.

See also

Footnotes

A. ^ Mark Clattenburg was originally appointed as the match referee,[3] but he was suspended over allegations of debt and replaced by Peter Walton.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/EGLL/2008/8/10/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA
  2. ↑ "The FA Community Shield sponsored by McDonald's". TheFA.com. The Football Association. 27 February 2009. Archived from the original on 21 February 2009. Retrieved 6 March 2009.
  3. ↑ "Shield referee confirmed". TheFA.com (The Football Association). 23 June 2008. Archived from the original on 26 June 2008. Retrieved 27 June 2008.
  4. ↑ "Ref Clattenburg hit by suspension". BBC Sport (British Broadcasting Corporation). 7 August 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2008.
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