Real Madrid 1-1 Manchester United: Daily Mirror player ratings on the big Bernabeu battle
Welbeck and Ronaldo got the goals and De Gea made a string of saves, but how did the rest do? Here, our Simon Bird reveals the scores on his doors
Surrounded! United's Evans, Ferdinand and Jones all keep an eye on Cristiano Ronaldo
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The only winners of Real Madrid vs Manchester United were the armchair audience after an electric 1-1 draw at the Bernabeu.
Danny Welbeck silenced the Spanish crowd with the opening goal for United but, before the fans could get their white hankies out, Old Trafford old boy Cristiano Ronaldo - who else? - had levelled.
Both sides had chances to win, but the tie goes to Old Trafford in three weeks with all to play for and a place in the last eight of the Champions League very much up for grabs.
But who had a great night and who had a Paddington? The Mirror's Simon Bird assesses the contribution of each man on each team.
Manchester United
David De Gea Brilliant fingertip save to keep an early Coentrao shot out, despite being unsighted. Couldn’t be blamed for Real's goal. A very good night. Rating: 8 Rafael An uncertain game. Jumped in to win the ball too eagerly. Was booked for a foul on Ozil and appeared to be targeted as a weak link by Mourinho's game-plan. Rating: 6 Rio Ferdinand Still looks the part marshalling a defence in a high pressure environment. Solid enough in a major test for those aged legs. Still got time left at world-class level. Rating: 7 Jonny Evans Big chance to impress when preferred to Vidic, but was tormented by Ronaldo in the air at times. Strong enough to beat away waves of sustained pressure though. Rating: 7 Patrice Evra Outjumped by Ronaldo for the goal - a major mismatch - and was unable to get forward much as United opted for containment out wide. Rating: 6 Michael Carrick Couldn’t find a lot of space in crowded midfield, but made vital tackles and covered the ground. Had his hands full with Real’s midfield runners. Rating: 7 Phil Jones Tasked with shadowing Ronaldo and shielding the back four, and was robust in his job. Short of experience at this rarified level but came through the test fortified. Rating: 7 Shinji Kagawa Flitted in and out of game and was a bit of a disappointment. Looked most dangerous running off the shoulder of defenders on the counter-attack. Rating: 5 Danny Welbeck Brilliant headed opener after 20 minutes. Only his second goal in 27 games, but a vital one on a night when he was asked to excel. Came close to a second, too. Rating: 7 Wayne Rooney Less hooligan, more quiet, law-abiding citizen. Unflashy, if we were supposed to compare him with superstar rival Ronaldo. Played a deep role, mucking in. Rating: 6 Robin van Persie Booked over an early clash with Sergio Ramos. Fluffed his best chances back-to-back on 72 minutes, including a simple volley. Will surely be more effective in home leg. Rating: 6 Substitutes Ryan Giggs (64, for Kagawa) Helped push United forward. Applauded onto the pitch by Real fans in a classy gesture of respect. Rating: 6 Antonio Valencia (73, for Welbeck) Quiet in limited time, but added power down the right. Rating: 6 Anderson (84, for Rooney) Filled a hole in the dying minutes. Rating: 6
Real Madrid
Diego Lopez Looked uncertain on crosses. Started to come for the corner that led to United's goal, then stopped. Welbeck capitalised in on his dithering. Rating: 6 Alvaro Arbeloa Offered width and kept play ticking over when Real took a breather, but wasn’t too eye-catching on the overlap. Rating: 6 Sergio Ramos Lost Welbeck as the United striker scored the opener. Got away with a naughty off-the-ball elbow on Evans. Sustained graze to his designer stubble in that clash with Van Persie. Rating: 6 Raphael Varane Got away with a clumsy challenge to stop a United breakaway. If the ref had given a foul there, he would have been sent off. Otherwise, classy. Rating: 6 Fabio Coentrao Hit the post with a right-foot curler that was a major early scare for United. Covered plenty of ground anchoring the left side of midfield. Rating: 7 Xabi Alonso No surprises in his methodical, probing performance, screening the back four and prompting team-mates into attack. Nothing fancy, but essential. Rating: 7 Sami Khedira Powerhouse. Drifted into advanced positions and caused anxiety for United. The German midfielder was one of the most forceful players on the pitch. Rating: 7 Angel Di Maria Magical cross to Ronaldo for the goal in a sparkling individual performance. A live-wire collecting the ball at imaginative angles, a turn of pace and a lethal shot. Rating: 8 Mesut Ozil Darted across the forward line causing mayhem, especially just before half-time. Elusive and was a real handful without getting individual reward. Rating: 7 Cristiano Ronaldo Inevitably grabbed the limelight with wonderful headed goal to level. Power, pace, heading ability - all done with preening style. Wonderful player. Rating: 8 Karim Benzema A bustling presence in traditional centre-forward role. Was more of a foil for others to work off. Rating: 6 Substitutes Gonzalo Higuain (60, for Benzema) His freshness created a couple of shooting chances. Rating: 6 Luka Modric (74, for Di Maria) Slowed the game down for Madrid. Rating: 5 Pepe (83, for Alonso) Not enough time to make an impact. Rating: 5
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Real Madrid 1-1 Manchester United, Champions League, February 13 2013
Historian, author and commentator Professor Richard Pankhurst talks about the renowned intellectual, statesman, diplomat and Ethiopia’s first western trained physician, Hakim Workneh Eshete (also known as Dr. Charles Martin). In an article published in the Capital newspaper, the most prolific writer on Ethiopian historical matters reviews two recent books that saw the light of the day on the historical figure. Hakim Workneh, aka Dr Charles Martin, was the first Ethiopian I ever met, and the first Ethiopian doctor to give me medical advice – albeit only once or twice during my childhood. Hakim Workneh, who was an important figure in Ethiopian history, is the subject of two recent biographies. He came from a prominent Gondar family that, for one reason or another – we do not know precisely why – was attached to Emperor Tewodros’s court at Maqdala. The family was there at the historic moment when Robert Napier’s expedition launched its assault on the Emperor’s citadel. Workneh, then about three years old, was in the care of his aunt, herself little more than a child, who, on hearing the noise of battle, fled the scene. This was not surprising, as an Ethiopian royal chronicle of this time reports that the commotion was terrible. Workneh meanwhile realizing that he had been abandoned by his guardian, rushed about like a mad thing, looking for anyone he knew – but to no avail. The British, seeing him in this condition, jumped to the conclusion that he must be an orphan. This, given the large number of Ethiopians killed in the preceding fighting, was not an unreasonable supposition.Several British officers, feeling a sense of responsibility for the assumed “orphan” – and lacking any way of ascertaining his identity, thought it best to take him back with them to India, from where their expedition had emanated. There, they proposed to give him a Christian education. Though already baptized in Ethiopia, the waif was accordingly re-baptized in India – and was educated at the expense of two British officers, Colonels Chamberlain and Martin. He was accordingly re-named Charles Martin. In the years that followed, Martin, as we must now call him, received a good education, partly under the auspices of the British-based Church Missionary Society, from which he learnt the “golden rule” to “do as you would be done by”. He went to school in India, Burma and Britain. This enabled him to qualify in due course as Ethiopia’s first modern-trained physician and surgeon. His story is told in two recent monographs. The first, in Amharic, is thus widely accessible in Ethiopia. It is by Ato Tadele Bitul and is entitled YeAzazh Hakim Warqnah Eshetu YeHiwyot Tarik (Addis Ababa, 2000). The second, by Professor Peter Garretson, entitled A Victorian Gentleman & Ethiopian Nationalist. The Life & Times of Hakim Warqnah, Dr. Charles Martin (James Currey, London, 2012). Professor Garretson had access to Hakim Workneh’s diaries and was thereby able to provide a more in-depth account of this remarkable son of Ethiopia. *** On acquiring his medical qualifications Martin, accepted a medical post with the British colonial administration in Burma. This assured him relative prosperity, but tied him to British employment. He did not however forget his Ethiopian identity – and dreamt of one day visiting his ancient motherland. The opportunity to do just that seemed to strike in March 1896 when Menelik defeated the Italians at the battle of Adwa, and there appeared a possibility of a European-trained physician being sent out to treat the Ethiopian wounded, who were entirely lacking in modern medical facilities. The young Ethiopian patriot took the leave to which he was entitled, packed his bags, and set forth for Africa, but travelled only as far as the port of Zeila in the then British Somali Protectorate. There, his leave from the Burma-based British medical service expired – and he felt obliged to abandon his planned journey to his beloved, but seemingly elusive Motherland. All, however, was not lost, for while in Zeila he met the British Commissioner, John Lane Harrington, who was subsequently appointed the first British envoy to Ethiopia. He told Menelik of his medical compatriot in far-off Asia. The Emperor, a great modernizer, was naturally much fascinated – and facilitated Martin’s eventual home-coming. All this, dear reader, was a far more complicated story than I present to you here. Suffice it to say that Martin was discovered by his Ethiopian family from whom he learnt that his original name was Workneh. He duly entered Menelik’s service – which posed no small problem as employment in Ethiopia was traditionally rewarded by land grants rather than a monthly wage to which the good young Ethiopian doctor was accustomed to in Burma and India. Workneh, as we now know him, nonetheless elected to return to Ethiopia, and on retiring from British Colonial Medical Service decided to settle there for good. He gradually emerged as one of the country’s great modernizing spirits. *** Workneh, who subsequently entered the service of Ras Teferi Mekonnen (the future Emperor Haile Selassie), accompanied the latter on his ground-breaking European tour of 1924. A notable advocate of modern education, Workneh was critical of the Egyptian teachers in the old Menelik School, founded by the monarch of that name in 1908, and urged Teferi to establish a more modern Europe-oriented school: the Teferi Mekonnen School at which he served as administrator. He was a keen supporter of English rather than the prevailing French, as Ethiopia’s foreign language of instruction. Workneh was one of the foremost Ethiopian opponents of slavery and the slave trade, and on being appointed governor of Chercher Province, in the east of the country, did much to bring both these institutions in that region to an end. All in all, he gained a reputation as a progressive administrator. He is however probably best remembered, as I remember him personally, as perhaps Ethiopia’s ablest and most loyal pre-war diplomat – who was appointed as his country’s Minister, i.e. Ambassador, to Britain in 1935, now seeming so long ago. As such his views on the evolution of Anglo-Ethiopian relations (reproduced by Garretson) are worthy of attention.
Here’s a selection of animals, birds and landscapes photos taken in different parts of Ethiopia. I thought I’d share a few of them with you- I hope you like them. Long-crested eagle perches on a pole, crest waving in wind. The remarkably long, feathered crest possessed by the aptly named long-crested eagle, is this unmistakable bird of prey’s most striking feature. My bird guide book tells me it is a relatively small eagle with dark brown to black plumage, long, white feathered legs, and a well barred tail. With the broad, rounded wings spread in flight, patches of white are conspicuous at the base of the primaries. (Photo taken by Søren Kristensen, a Danish ornithologist that I’ve had a chance to accompany to the northern and western part of Ethiopia).
The common hippopotamus has an impressive array of tusk-like canines and incisors. It is considered by many to be Africa’s most dangerous mammal, as attacks invariably result in death. When feeling threatened, it opens its huge mouth and bellow. Females are fiercely protective of their young, which are born after an eight-month gestation. (Photographed at Lake Chamo in Arba Minch.)
Gureza (Abyssinian Black and white colobus) This is the species most frequently seen by visitors to southern and western Ethiopia. This beautiful monkey is easily distinguished from other primates by its mantle of long white hair around sides and overall black features. Its major habitat is forest canopies and it is abundant in the western, southern and central highland of Ethiopia, specifically on the shores of Lake Awassa, Lake Zengena, Wench Crater Lake, in Turmi of Hamer region, at Wondo Genet, Welliso Negash lodge. The forests of Bebeka Coffee Estate, north of Mizan Teferi, offer the best viewing possibilities. This one was photographed in the Negash lodge, Welliso west of Addis.
The Danakil Depression in north-eastern Ethiopia is the hottest place on earth in a summer month. It is nested on top of an at least 1000m thick layer of quaternary evaporates including large potash (potassium salt) reserves. Endless salt and sulphur, and sprinkled with a rather adhesive coarse orange deposit is seen.
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