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preview: MANCHESTER UNITED v
Stoke City
fa premiership, Matchday 12
Old
Trafford, Manchester,
15.00pm GMT, Saturday 15th November
2008.
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Match
Preview |
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 Article
by Mark Graham, Editor, Record Keeper & Official Reporter
@ MUFCINFO.COM
Congratulations goes out to SAF who celebrates 50 years in
football tomorrow, Fergie made a scoring debut for Queen's
Park at the age of 16 against Stranraer on 15 November 1958.
Wayne Rooney has a chest infection but is expected to play.
Mamady Sidibe
(ankle) will face a late test after injuring himself against
Rotherham in midweek.
Dr Richard
Steadman famous surgeon to the stars has operated on Owen
Hargreaves and the talented midfielder will miss the rest of
the season.
Stoke also have three ex Reds on their books who are
expected to feature tomorrow,
Danny Higginbotham,
Danny Pugh and
Ryan Shawcross.
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Pre
Match Press Conference Highlights |
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On Owen
Hargreaves
“We have exhausted every other way of dealing with the
situation,” “We have tried to manage it by sending him to a
specialist in Leicester for a series of injections.
“Their success rate is very good. Unfortunately it wasn’t
good enough for Owen because he was still feeling great pain
in his knee caps. “We had to look at the next stage and that
meant sending him for an operation.”
Hargreaves has had one operation and will return to Canada
for a short spell before having a second.
Then he will begin a lengthy rehabilitation programme that
Ferguson hopes will result in the £18million midfielder
being able to prove he was an astute signing after all.
“It is going well so far,” said Ferguson. “The surgeon is
very pleased with it and we had a physio there who was happy
as well. “We hope it will get rid of the problem and
he will come back a new player.”
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Squad |
Manchester United (from):
Van der Sar, Foster, Kuszczak, Neville, Rafael, Ferdinand,
Vidic, Evans, Evra, O'Shea, Ronaldo, Park, Anderson,
Carrick, Giggs, Nani, Fletcher, Berbatov, Rooney, Tevez.
Stoke City (from): Sorensen, Griffin, Shawcross,
Abdoulaye Faye, Higginbotham, Olofinjana, Amdy Faye, Diao,
Delap, Sidibe, Fuller, Whelan, Cresswell, Kitson, Simonsen,
Wilkinson, Cort, Tong, Pugh, Dickinson. |
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Head to Head |
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HEAD TO HEAD RECORDS v Stoke City
A record of Competitive games played between Manchester United & Stoke
City |
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ALL COMPETITIVE MATCHES |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
Diff |
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TOTAL |
86 |
30 |
31 |
25 |
122 |
107 |
+15 |
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Milestones |
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71st
League meeting between the two sides.
SAF's 632nd Premiership fixture in charge.
If Ronaldo scores he will reach 100 goal for United. |
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Score Prediction
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a 3-1 win
to the Reds. |
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