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Competition

preview: MANCHESTER UNITED v Liverpool

Premiership Matchday 31

Old Trafford, Manchester, England, 13.30pm GMT, Sunday 21st March 2010.

Articles wrote by the Editor of mufcinfo.com - Mark Graham

Team News

Ryan Giggs return to the squad after his absence with a broken arm.

 

Alberto Aquilani will be considered after missing the 3-0 victory against Lille on Thursday after sickness bug.

 

Maxi Rodriguez returns after being ineligible for the European tie.

 

Martin Skrtel (foot) and Fabio Aurelio (thigh) will be missing.


InjuredINJURED

Owen Hargreaves (fitness)

John O'Shea (thigh)

Ritchie De Laet (leg)

Wes Brown (metatarsal)

Michael Owen (hamstring) O.F.S.

Anderson (knee) O.F.S.

Danny Welbeck (knee) O.F.S.

Doubtful

Jonny Evans (knee)

Rafael (calf)

 

Referee's notebook & CardsSUSPENDED

none


InjuredINJURED

Martin Skrtel (metatarsal)

Fabio Aurelio (thigh)

Doubtful

Albert Riera (club ban)

Referee's notebook & CardsSUSPENDED

NONE


Yellow CardRed Card

 REFEREE TODAY:

Squads

Manchester United (from): Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Neville, Rafael, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evans, Evra, Fabio, Park, Valencia, Carrick, Scholes, Fletcher, Gibson, Obertan, Giggs, Nani, Rooney, Berbatov, Diouf.

Liverpool (from): Reina, Johnson, Agger, Carragher, Insua, Lucas, Mascherano, Kuyt, Gerrard, Rodriguez, Torres, Babel, Ngog, Benayoun, Aquilani, Cavalieri, Kyrgiakos, Spearing, Kelly, Degen.

Pre Match Press Conference Highlights

On injury's

"We’re in a much better position injury-wise than we were last week,”  Ryan, Rafa and Jonny are all back training and looking nice and fresh.
 

On Owen Hargreaves
“It was great to see Owen Hargreaves makes his comeback [for the Reserves] on Thursday night as well – it’s a big boost for him and we’re delighted to have him back.

“Being out of the game for a long time is very difficult. We’ve experienced it with Gary Neville and he’s shown that you can come back. Owen has the advantage of being a younger man so hopefully he’s now available for a continued period.

“I still think he’ll need a couple more games for the Reserves, but after that he’ll be back in the first team squad and he's a good player to have back at this stage of the season.”

 

Owen Hargreaves - "It was lovely to be back in a team environment. It's been about 16 months, I think, while I've been having surgery and individual rehab, so having team-mates around you, getting used to playing on a bigger pitch and having opponents was great. It's been a very long time and it was great to do that first step"

 

 

Ji Sung Park - "We are looking forward to the game against Liverpool. You can feel the atmosphere is different for a game against Liverpool than for other games,"  "You know the history and the rivalry.  "There have been some great games between the two teams and we lost at Anfield earlier this season so there is an element of revenge.
"But we are ready to play against them and this time I hope we show our strength."

 

Darren Fletcher - "We don’t really like talking about revenge, but the recent results have been hard to take for both the players and the fans," "We need to show we’ve learnt our lesson from last year and we’re all desperate to win for everyone connected to the club.

Head to Head

HEAD TO HEAD RECORDS v Liverpool England
A record of Competitive games played between Manchester United & Liverpool

ALL COMPETITIVE MATCHES

P W D L F A Diff
TOTAL 178 68 50 60 245 229 +16

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 57 25 21 11 92 52 +40 H 2 2 0 0 8 3 +5 H 17 9 4 4 25 14 +11
A 57 13 15 29 60 95 -35 A 2 0 0 2 1 11 -10 A 18 9 3 6 25 25 0
TOTAL 114 38 36 40 152 147 +5 TOTAL 4 2 0 2 9 14 -5 TOTAL 35 18 7 10 50 39 +11

ALL LEAGUE MATCHES

P W D L F A Diff
H 76 36 25 15 125 69 +56
A 77 22 18 37 86 131 -43
TOTAL 153 58 43 52 211 200 +11

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 3 1 +2 H 5 3 1 1 8 4 +4
A 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 A 4 1 1 2 5 5 0
N 2 0 0 2 1 4 -3 N 6 4 2 0 10 6 +4
TOTAL 4 1 0 3 5 7 -2 TOTAL 15 8 4 3 23 15 +8

ALL CUP MATCHES

P W D L F A Diff
H 6 4 1 1 11 5 +6
A 5 1 1 3 6 7 -1
N 8 4 2 2 11 10 +1
TOTAL 19 9 4 6 28 22 +6

CHARITY SHIELD

H/A P W D L F A Diff
H 1 0 1 0 2 2 0
A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
N 5 1 2 2 4 5 -1
TOTAL 6 1 3 2 6 7 -1

Milestones

SAF's 689th Premiership fixture in charge.

179th game between the two sides.

Score Prediction

2-0 to the Reds.

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