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Man U held 0-0 by Everton
Man U held 0-0 by Everton
Manchester United were denied three times by the woodwork as they were held on to a 0-0 home draw by Everton, the club whose England striker Wayne Rooney they hope to sign before Tuesday's transfer deadline.
United, whose latest offer for Rooney of an estimated 25 million pounds is being considered by Everton, climbed to ninth in the Premier League standings with five points from four games. Everton are seventh on seven points.
Forwards Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul Scholes and Alan Smith, who had scored in United's two previous league games, all hit the woodwork in the second half.
Everton's former England goalkeeper Nigel Martyn tipped shots over the bar from Frenchman Louis Saha and Paul Scholes.
The visitors might have had a penalty when United defender Mikael Silvestre cleared the ball with his arm.
Their manager David Moyes said he was delighted with a point at a difficult ground after picking up three in a tiring 2-1 home win over West Bromwich Albion on Saturday.
"I got told it was a hand ball. Maybe I'm not the first manager to come here and say they don't get penalty kicks...but you've got to maybe earn more than that when you come to Old Trafford," he said.
"We don't have the same standard of players as Manchester United...so we have to do the best we can...and we came here and made it hard to beat, and obviously to get a point from here is not an easy thing," Moyes told Sky Sports News.
Rooney, odds on to become a United player by Tuesday, was not playing having been out of action since limping off with a broken foot during England's Euro 2004 quarter-final loss to hosts Portugal in June.
Leaders Arsenal and second-placed Chelsea, who beat Norwich City 4-1 and Southampton 2-1 on Saturday, are the only teams with the maximum 12 points.
PULSATING MATCH
In a later match, Portsmouth's Nigeria striker Aiyegbeni Yakubu scored a hat-trick as his side won their first game of the season with a 4-3 victory against Fulham.
The home side had started the pulsating match scoring three goals within nine minutes of each other in the first half hour before Fulham fought back to 3-2 before the break courtesy of goals from Andy Cole and Portugal international Luis Boa Morte.
Yakubu scored two of the first half goals, the first a penalty after Ricardo Fuller was brought down by Boa Morte in the 21st minute, two minutes after Eyal Berkovic had opened the scoring following up a Yakubu shot.
The Nigerian scored his second after a Fuller flick-on put him free and he slotted his left foot shot past Edwin van der Sar in the 28th minute.
Fulham, however, refused to buckle and got back into the match when Cole headed in a Boa Morte cross in the 39th minute before the pair combined again two minutes later, this time Boa Morte converting after Cole had made the final pass.
Yakubu completed his hat-trick after some lax marking inside the box in the 72nd minute, before defender Carlos Bocanegra scored his first goal for Fulham when he headed in a Boa Morte free kick three minutes later.
Yakubu could have scored a fourth in the final 10 minutes when he was free against van der Sar, who saved brilliantly at close range.
Both sides had several chances to score in the second half due to some atrocious defending though Portsmouth goalkeeper Shaka Hislop and van der Sar were outstanding.
Portsmouth are now 11th on four points, while Fulham dropped to 13th due to goal difference, also on four points. |
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