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preview: MANCHESTER UNITED v
Everton
fa premiership, Matchday 23
Old Trafford, Manchester, 17.30pm GMT, Saturday 31st January 2009. |
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Match
Preview |
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 Article
by Mark Graham, Editor, Record Keeper & Official Reporter
@ MUFCINFO.COM.
Wayne Rooney is still missing (hamstring) and will not
face his former club but might feature next week against
West Ham.
Full-back Fabio is included in the squad
Everton have doubts over Tim Cahill (foot), Marouane
Fellaini (shin) & Nuno Valente (knee).
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Pre
Match Press Conference Highlights |
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On
League experience
“The one thing that is inevitable is that the league is full
of shocks,” he said at his press conference on Friday.
“We’ve experienced it before, we’ve lost leagues in the past
when we thought we were in a great position.
“We’ve lost the league on the last game of the season when
we should have won it, and we’ve won leagues on the last
game. What it tells you is that football is there to kick
you in the teeth. So the best way to handle that from our
perspective is not to get carried away, and not make
predictions about the outcome of the league. By doing that
we can concentrate on each game as it comes along and treat
it seriously.”
On Nani & Evra
"Nani and Evra are both training with the first team," said
the boss, "and Wayne will join us on Monday."
On Vidic
Nemanja got a knock in training on Thursday, hopefully he’ll
be all right,” said the boss. “He missed training on Friday
but we’re hoping he’ll be OK."
ON Owen Hargreaves
"It was completely successful and better than the last one,"
said Sir Alex. "The last operation was more difficult, but
this was a more clean-cut problem. He will certainly be
ready for the start of next season."
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Squad |
Manchester United (from): Van der Sar, Foster, Kuszczak,
Neville, Ferdinand, Brown, Vidic, O'Shea, Fabio, Chester,
Eckersley, Ronaldo, Scholes, Giggs, Carrick, Park, Gibson,
Possebon, Tevez, Berbatov, Welbeck.
Everton (from):
Howard, Hibbert,
Jagielka, Lescott, Baines, Anichebe, Gosling, Castillo,
Rodwell, Neville, Osman, Arteta, Fellaini, Pienaar, Cahill,
Nash, Yobo, Van der Meyde, Jacobsen, Jutkiewicz. |
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Head to Head |
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HEAD TO HEAD RECORDS v everton
A record of Competitive games played between Manchester United &
Everton |
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ALL COMPETITIVE MATCHES |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
Diff |
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TOTAL |
174 |
76 |
39 |
59 |
260 |
243 |
+17 |
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ALL LEAGUE MATCHES |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
Diff |
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H |
79 |
44 |
20 |
15 |
141 |
76 |
+65 |
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A |
80 |
25 |
18 |
37 |
105 |
154 |
-49 |
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TOTAL |
159 |
69 |
38 |
52 |
246 |
230 |
+16 |
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Milestones |
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175th competitive match between the two sides.
160th
League meeting between the two sides.
SAF's 643rd Premiership fixture in charge. |
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Score Prediction
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Under no
illusion that this will be easy against a decent
Everton side but home field advantage will be the
key here as United try to build on their momentum
gathering run for the title, Everton's record is
poor at Old Trafford & the Reds have won a mammoth
25 games out of 33 available in the Premiership.
2-0 to United. |
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What's your opinion?.....HAVE YOU'RE SAY BELOW |
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REFEREE TODAY:
MARK HALSEY
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MUFC TEAM
NEWS |
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INJURED
Owen Hargreaves (knees)
Patrice Evra (foot)
Wayne Rooney (hamstring)
Jonny Evans (ankle)
Anderson (ankle)
Nani (groin)
Rafael (hamstring)
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Doubtful
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SUSPENDED |
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Everton
TEAM NEWS |
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INJURED
Yakubu Aiyegbeni (Achilles) James Vaughan (knee)
Louis Saha (hamstring)
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Doubtful
Tim Cahill (foot)
Marouane Fellaini (shin)
Nuno Valente (knee) |
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SUSPENDED
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