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preview: hull city v MANCHESTER UNITED

Premiership, matchday 19

Kingston Communications Stadium, Hull, 16.00pm GMT, Sunday 26th December 2009.

Obituary

Former Busby Babe Albert Scanlon past away earlier this week age 74, Albert a forward in the Busby Babes era played for United between 1954 and 1961 making 127 appearances for United & scoring 35 times.

The Manchester born player also scored 16 goals in one league in season 1958/59 season.

A survivor of the Munich Air disaster Albert suffered a broken leg & fractured skull and returned to the 1st team the very next season.

 

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Team News

Both Wes Brown & Nemanja Vidic are expected to face late fitness tests.

 

Rafael & Fabio have also returned to the squad as the injury nightmare begins to subside.

 

Jonny Evans (calf) is expected to return for the Wigan game.

 

InjuredINJURED

Owen Hargreaves (fitness)

John O'Shea (ankle)

Federico Macheda (hamstring)

Jonny Evans (calf)

Rio Ferdinand (calf)

Gary Neville (groin)

Edwin Van Der Sar (knee)

Nani (ankle)

Doubtful

Wesley Brown (hamstring)

Nemanja Vidic (calf)

Ryan Giggs (hamstring)

Referee's notebook & CardsSUSPENDED

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InjuredINJURED
Jimmy Bullard
(knee)

Ian Ashbee (knee)

Doubtful

 

Referee's notebook & CardsSUSPENDED

 none


Yellow CardRed Card

 REFEREE TODAY:

Squads

Manchester United (from): Kuszczak, Foster, Rafael, De Laet, Vidic, Brown, Evra, Fabio, Valencia, Park, Carrick, Fletcher, Scholes, Anderson, Gibson, Giggs, Obertan, Rooney, Berbatov, Owen, Welbeck, Tosic.

Hull City (from): Myhill, Gardnre, McShane, Dawson, Zayette, Geovanni, Mendy, Fagan, Boateng, Barmby, Olofinjana, Garcia, Cousin, Hunt, Kilbane, Ghilas, Vennegoor of Hesselink, Duke.

Pre Match Press Conference Highlights

On Jonny Evans & the centre back injury's
“Jonny's done a bit of training but he’s still feeling pain and we’re trying to get him through that,” revealed the boss. “If he continues with his progress I’m hopeful of getting him back quite soon and we’ll maybe have three centre-backs [Evans, Brown and Vidic] available for the Leeds game.”
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On Rio Ferdinand
“I don’t think he’s too far away, but it’s difficult to put a time limit on back injuries,” he admitted. “We gave him an injection just over two weeks ago and we had to let that settle down for a week. He’s since been carrying on with his gym work and we’re hoping the pain will go away.

“He’s not shown his frustration – he’s quite a composed, laid-back lad, but I’m sure he’s feeling it,” added the manager. “Footballers want to play football and he’ll be thinking about all the big games that he’s missing out on. So it’s not easy for him.”

Head to Head

HEAD TO HEAD RECORDS v HULL CITY England
A record of Competitive games played between Manchester United & Hull City

ALL COMPETITIVE MATCHES

P W D L F A Diff
TOTAL 22 14 3 5 42 22 +20

League Division One   League Division Two   FA Premiership
H/A P W D L F A Diff H/A P W D L F A Diff H/A P W D L F A Diff
H 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 H 8 7 1 0 22 4 +18 H 1 1 0 0 4 3 +1
A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A 8 2 2 4 8 13 -5 A 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1
TOTAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 16 9 3 4 30 17 +13 TOTAL 2 2 0 0 5 3 +2

ALL LEAGUE MATCHES

P W D L F A Diff
H 9 8 1 0 26 7 +19
A 9 3 2 4 9 13 -4
TOTAL 18 11 3 4 35 20 +15

League Cup FA Cup
H/A P W D L F A Diff H/A P W D L F A Diff
H 1 1 0 0 5 0 +5 H 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2
A 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 A 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1
N 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 2 2 0 0 6 0 +6 TOTAL 2 1 0 1 1 2 -1

ALL CUP MATCHES

P W D L F A Diff
H 2 1 0 1 5 2 +3
A 2 2 0 0 2 0 +2
N 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 4 3 0 1 7 2 +5

Milestones

SAF's 677th Premiership fixture in charge.

23rd game between the two sides.

Score Prediction

2-0

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