Sunderland vs Manchester United

Without Ferdinand, Berbatov, Hargreaves, Anderson, Brown, Evans and Rafael would be this my team............

Starting XI: -------------- Van Der Sar ---------------------
Neville --------- O`Shea ---------------- Vidic -------- Evra
Nani ----------- Scholes --------------- Carrick ------- Park
---------------- Rooney --------------- Tevez -------------

Bench: Foster, Eckersley, Fletcher, Giggs, Ronaldo, Welbeck, Macheda
 
neville and o'shea :nervous::nervous::nervous::nervous::nervous:

park rest him for porto,
nani scholes fletch gibson/anderson

rooney tevez
 
If Ferdinand isn't in the squad, then this:

Van der Sar
Neville - Vidic - Evans - Evra
Ronaldo - Fletcher - Scholes - Nani
Tévez - Rooney
--
Subs: Foster; O'Shea; Carrick, Giggs, Park; Welbeck, Macheda.​

Hoping we can win comfortably. Strong attacking line-up with the movement, pace, and goal threat from that front four (provided Nani actually performs) - compromised by the passing ability of Scholes and defensive work of Fletcher should see us through; but we know it's never that simple.

Sunderland 0-3 Manchester United

Rooney to score again, Ronaldo again, and probably a rocket from Nani or Scholes to polish it off (or Macheda / Welbeck coming on and scoring).

As for substitutions, depending on the situation, I'd take off Scholes for Carrick, and two of the front four for our kid strikers. Eg. If Nani plays shit, bring Welbeck on for him, or if we've romped it, take off Ronaldo and Rooney/Tévez for the pair.
 
-----------VDS------------
Gaz - O Solid - Vidic - Evra

CR7 - Carrick - Scholes - Nani

------Tevez----Rooney-----

We need to smash Sunderland for 7, get the confidence sky high for Porto.

Tevezx3
Ronaldox2
Rooneyx2
 
I dreamt of a 4-1 win, and a Liverpool draw. That would be class.
 
rico might be out for this one

bardsley will play .. hope ronaldo starts on the right .. bardo will try to act like a hard cnut

so whats their midfield going to be like ?
edwards and murphy wide ?


bardo - xxx - anton - collins
edwards--xxx--xxx-murphy
---------malbranque-----
----------jones-------------
??

whitehead , leadbitter , fat reid , tainio ?
 
Is this match been shown on TV in England ? I know it's on Setanta Ireland but I don't think we have that over here.....or certainly not the same broadcast because it says there's US Masters Golf on at 15:00

Cheers
 
I dreamt of a 4-1 win, and a Liverpool draw. That would be class.

The opposite is more likely. Liverpool should win by 3 or more. We may draw if Rio and Evans don't play.
 
Is this match been shown on TV in England ? I know it's on Setanta Ireland but I don't think we have that over here.....or certainly not the same broadcast because it says there's US Masters Golf on at 15:00

Cheers

Saturday 3:00PM games are never on TV in England.
 
going to be tight, hope evans is fit!

just hoping for a win, 1-0 or 2-1 will do
 
Ah SHITE! :mad:

Well I guess it'll have to be a stream then, although there's s great boozer I know in Kennington who have all the extra channels if you know what I mean. Just walk in and Setanta Ireland should be sorted
 
Well, im sure Sopcast Ireland will be streamed somewhere on Sopcast.

I hope anyway.

I have had to listen to Alan Green once this season, I do no want another United bashing 90minutes.
 
I am sure Fergie would have nailed into them this week to seriousness of this situation. Rooney, Tevez, Ronaldo and Scholes will be so desperate for a good performance they will all have great games.

The defence, the subject of alot of knocking, and rightly so, should grow some today, and keep a clean sheet.


Please.
 
Well, im sure Sopcast Ireland will be streamed somewhere on Sopcast.

I hope anyway.

I have had to listen to Alan Green once this season, I do no want another United bashing 90minutes.

It's on Setanta Sports 1, not Setanta Ireland, just to warn you!
 
The word is that Ronaldo will either be on the bench or rested entirely, and that Evans hasnt' made the XI neither.