33 mins
Possession
Cluj 30% - 70% ManU

35 min: Hernandez dinks the ball between centre-back and right-back for Robin van Persie to chase and the Dutchman shjoots low and diagonally from left to right. Goalkeeper Felgueiras stays on his feet and blocks the shot.

34 min: Possession stats: CFR Cluj 30%-70% Manchester United. Cluj get the ball out of their own half and it's whipped into the Manchester United penalty area from the left, but doesn't go anywhere within range of the solitary Pantelis Kapetanos.

32 min: Good play again from Cleverly, who picks out Javier Hernandez on the edge of the penalty area. The Mexican unleashes a snap-shot that's on target but not hit with enough strength to trouble Mario Felgueiras in the Cluj goal.

GOAL! CFR Cluj 1-1 Manchester United (Van Persie 29): Manchester United win a free-kick on the left flank, which Wayne Rooney whips into the penalty area. Standing unmarked, Robin van Persie leaps and misses the ball with his head, but gets a lucky break when it hits his shoulder, loops over the goalkeeper and drops into the back of the goal

Rvp never score again? Abeg link

@cnario, God bless U̶̲̥̅̊ nd ur entire family bro,

45 min: It's half-time. After falling behind once again, Manchester United go in all square at half-time courtesy of a Robin van Persie fluke. They've been vastly superior to CFR Cluj, but have looked anything but clinical up front or at the back. Elsewhere in this group, Portuguese side Braga lead Galatasaray 1-0.

43 min: Another United chance, but by no means a gilt-edge one. Rafael crosses to the edge of the penalty area, where Wayne Rooney is forced to lean backwards before directing a weak header harmlessly wide.

42 min: Manchester United win a corner off Ivo Pinto and Wayne Rooney sends it towards Robin van Persie at the far post. He's beaten in the air and CFR Cluj embark on another of their trademark counter-attacks, only for Gabriel Muresan to to drag a shot wide of David De Gea's goal.

37 min: Darren Fletcher links up with Cleverley and Anderson before sending a cross to the far post towards Van Persie. Cluj right back Ivo Pinto heads clear.

Random half-time observations

• Wayne Rooney still looks to be carrying a bit too much timber.
• All Manchester United's chances have been created through the middle, which is unsurprising considering they're playing without any wingers.
• Manchester United need to bring on a winger.
• Manchester United's defending for the goal they conceded was hideously bad. Evra was caught hopelessly out of position, which allowed Cluj winger Sougou to cross.
• When the cross went into the penalty area, Kapetanos got the better of both Evans and Ferdinand, when they should have been able to deal with him comfortably.

he scores again goat

Mehn, enough of the long talk. If Man. United f*cks up again! 1:1

^Ignore that. 1:2

mukina2: he scores again goat

calm down madam

47 min: Wayne Rooney tries his luck with a long-range effort which the goalkeeper puts out for a corner from which nothing comes.

Second half: No changes on either side as the home team kicks off.

Alex Ferguson's half-time interview: "Our passing and intensity of possession has been good, but losing that goal the way we did was a shocker ... an absolute shocker. The way they play everyone is behind the ball, so it's going to be difficult to get width. They're just sitting in there and hoping we make mistakes."

Mukina can beef all she wants. RVP is hotter than fire!

GOAL! CFR Cluj 1-2 Manchester United (Van Persie 48) Great goal from Manchester United, which has its origins on the right flank,. With the ball at his feet, Wayne Rooney looks up and sends a beautiful diagonal up and under into the corridor of uncertainty between goalkeeper and back four, for Robin van Persie to chase. The Dutchman beats the dithering goalkeeper to the dropping ball, cocks his left leg like a dog taking a pee on a lamp-post and dinks it into the bottom left-hand corner.

GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!
Dis Rooney - Van Persie combo s jes deadly

53 min: Another lapse in concentration by Manchester United's defenders almost lets Kapetanos in for a second. Muresan squares the ball low and hard from the right and, with Evans and Ferdinand standing off him again, the Cluj striker has all the time in the world to slash the ball high over the crossbar. If he'd hit the target there, who knows what might have happened?

cnario: GOAL! CFR Cluj 1-2 Manchester United (Van Persie 48) Great goal from Manchester United, which has its origins on the right flank,. With the ball at his feet, Wayne Rooney looks up and sends a beautiful diagonal up and under into the corridor of uncertainty between goalkeeper and back Iƒour, for Robin van Persie to chase. The Dutchman beats the dithering goalkeeper to the dropping ball, cocks his left leg like a dog taking a pee on a lamp-post and dinks it into the bottom left-hand corner.

Hahahahahahaa !! I need more of this !!

55′ So nearly an equaliser for Cluj! Cadu powers a great header at goal, but De Gea is equal to it and pulls off a fine save above his head to flick the ball over the bar. The home side are getting closer to another here, and Ferguson will be fuming.

Manutd needs 2win dis game in style to restore some confidence in d fans

56 min: If Manchester United's players are trying to wind up their manager and ensure a long, fraught trip home from Romania, they're doing a very good job. Cluj win a corner, the ball's sent in from the right and Cadu rises completely unmarked at the back post to send a bullet header flashing wide of the left upright. He runs back into position with his head in his hands, berating himself for not doing better.

Donalds N: Manutd needs 2win dis game in style to restore some confidence in d fans

A sure talk cux dey've been awkward recently !!

60 min: CFR Cluj substitution: Goalscorer Kapetanos off, to be replaced by Croatian one-cap wonder Sasa Bjelanovic.

59 min: From the edge of the final third, Matias Aguirregaray tries to play Pantelis Kapetanos through on for a one-on-one with De Gea with a stabbed pass along the deck fir the striker to chase. Rio Ferdinand makes a crucial interception.

59 min: United earn som,e respite after a five-minute period of sustained Cluj pressure when Rafael wins a free-kick wide on the right flank from his namesake Bastos in the Cluj side.

62′ Lots of tight tiki-taka from United here but they're still looking for that third goal to give themselves a bit of breathing space - a one-goal lead in Europe is a dangerous scoreline to try and hold.

68 min: With nothing else going on, fancy getting strafed with my stat gun? It's not as unpleasant as it sounds. Passes completed: Cluj 152-473 Manchester United.

65 min: Cleverly tries top play Javier Hernandez through on goal with a ball through the Cluj defence, but the Little Pea is flagged for offside.

I want man u nd eyimba to play de uefa champions league finals

Cluj 1-2 My darling United. Just as my club (Trinity fc) won by 1-2 in their ongoing Onitsha Champions League on their quater finals.. Its awesome!

Well done Man - U!!!!

Not a very convincing performance from the lads out there, all thesame a win is a win...Biggest positive of the match was the rvp-wazza combo, just brilliant...GGMU!

I hate this man u

holly-pagan:
I hate this man u

They hate u too