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West Ham United (from): Green,
Kurucz, Faubert, Da Costa, Gabbidon, Daprela, Tomkins,
Ilunga, Spector, Kovac, Noble, Parker, Collison, Payne,
Diamanti, Dyer, Hines, Stanislas, Franco.
Manchester United (from): Van der Sar, Foster, Kuszczak,
Neville, O’Shea, Brown, Vidic, Evans, Evra, Rafael,
Valencia, Anderson, Fletcher, Scholes, Carrick, Giggs, Nani,
Berbatov, Rooney, Owen, Macheda, Welbeck. |
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NOTE: Mick
Phelan stood in for SAF at the press conference on Friday.
 On
Rio
“"Rio is progressing with his treatment," revealed Reds'
assistant boss Mike Phelan, who stood in for Sir Alex at
Friday's pre-match press conference.
"He’s as optimistic as he can be. We haven’t set a target
for him to be back yet. We just need to make sure that when
he is back, he is available for the rest of the season.
On O'Shea &
Evans
"We still have a problem with Evans and O'Shea. Jonny's calf
is responding slowly to treatment, while John is still
suffering from a dead leg that doesn’t seem to be improving
as quickly as we expected."
On
EVDS
"We've got Edwin
back though - he's been training and is available along with
the other goalkeepers."
On Owen Hargreaves
"It's a
sort of softly, softly approach with Owen," said Phelan.
"He’s been out a long time now, but he’s back on the
training ground. He has a lot of rehab work to do which is
going to be a continuous thing for him now.
He's doing some ball work out on the training ground and his
fitness is looking very good, but obviously he hasn’t got
into a big group situation yet.
"He’s as keen as mustard to get back in there with the squad
and the time is definitely getting shorter until he is back
in training fully."
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Article by Mark Graham, Editor, Record Keeper & Official
Reporter @ MUFCINFO.COM.
