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preview: MANCHESTER UNITED v
tottenham hotspur
carling cup quarter final
Old
Trafford, Manchester,
20.00pm GMT, Tuesday 1st December 2009. |
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Federico Macheda and Danny Welbeck are expected to start for
United with Owen waiting in the wings.
In the revolving door goalkeeping stakes, Ben Foster should take
his place between the sticks despite a quite brilliant display
by Tomasz Kuszczak.
Tottenham defender Ledley King is still out with a hamstring
problem.
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 INJURED
Owen
Hargreaves (fitness)
Rio Ferdinand (calf)
Fabio (??) |
Doubtful
Jonny
Evans (calf)
John
O'Shea (ankle) |
 SUSPENDED
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INJURED
Ledley King (hamstring)
Luka Modric (broken leg)
Carlo Cudicini (broke wrists) |
Doubtful
? |
SUSPENDED
none |
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Manchester United:
Foster, Kuszczak, Amos,
Neville, De Laet, Brown, Vidic, Jonny Evans, Corry Evans,
Evra, Rafael, Obertan, Valencia, Gibson, Anderson, Fletcher,
Carrick, Nani, Park, Tosic, Berbatov, Rooney, Owen, King,
James, Macheda, Welbeck. |
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 On
the young players
“"Those lads need to be challenged and I thought they
did OK. "They did not deserve that kind of criticism.
"Those same
people will be going cap in hand to them, begging them for
interviews in a few years' time, mark my words. It is so
hypocritical."
"I don't need to
motivate them with what has been said," said Ferguson.
"Their future is well mapped out.
"But the one thing we cannot give them is an old head, which
is what we saw in the last third of the pitch last week.
"They got anxious. They created good chances and they
hurried the thing. But that is not the biggest crime in the
world.
"We are not talking about ability here. We are talking about
experience and in that sense is starting to stack up. That
is why we have to play them."
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Article by Mark Graham, Editor, Record Keeper & Official
Reporter @ MUFCINFO.COM.
