No berba? That's stupid. He has a 2 week break after this
fergie want to keep macheda and owen happy and prevent them from leaving?
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fergie want to keep macheda and owen happy and prevent them from leaving?
Fletch on the right and Nani on the left please.
Also the only thing I've a real problem with is no Berbatov. Sure he's on the bench, but why isn't the man starting?
Also the only thing I've a real problem with is no Berbatov. Sure he's on the bench, but why isn't the man starting?
Fletcher Scholes Anderson
Nani Owen Macheda
4-3-3.
Nani Owen Macheda
4-3-3.
Well after today he has a break to fully recover, really speaks volumes of what SAF thinks about Carrick - hes more comfortable with playing a injured 35 year old rather than him
Yes.
Turf Moor last season - the last time I remember him playing on the left.
interesting! good team, I'll wait to judge how effective Macheda and Owen will be.
Because he can have 2 weeks off after this game?
Resting him for the stressful weekend he's going to have sitting at home in a weeks time.
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Does seem a bit weird, Berbatov is more a player who grows into games usually when he comes on as a sub he doesnt have the same effect. But that was old Berba, new Berba will probably score a hat-trick!
This x1000
He was playing on the left against West Ham at home last season
Hmm, well, there'll be no Carrick to miss any penalties.
At the moment, Berbatov is our in form striker. He has no international duties now, the man should be playing every match he possibly can (well in the league and CL anyway). This early in the season and with not playing internationals anymore, there's no reason for him to be rested.
It's a 4-3-3. I don't know if we have enough in the side to score though. Feel we will need 2 goals to get a win today.
love our bench options
Which would be nice after the internationals, but will not have any meaning on the idea of freshening TODAY's team.
Berbatov has scored once coming off the bench for us and that was in Commy Shield...
With Scholes playing I'd rather have seen Hernandez start ahead of Kiko but in SAF we trust.
Fair enough.
When is our next game, is Berbatov being rested?
Carrick failed the fitness test.
ONLY two weeks away. It's obvious Berba needs 2 weeks off to be fresh for that one.
That may be true, but with the international break coming up, I wouldn't have rested Evra or Berbatov as they wouldn't be playing internationals and get a rest anyway. The same would likely go for Ferdinand, Carrick, Anderson.. We might as well play the players who won't be playing internationals so they can get the rest, then come back fresh after it. Provided everyone's fit of course.
Maybe I'm being stupid? But I don't think that's a ridiculous way of doing things.
why is it his achilles bothering him again?
True. Good point.
He must have been knackered after the Valencia game I suppose.
can never trust what fergie said, he said scholes was out for 10 days and rooney for 3 weeks....
And me! Would appreciate that.
Still Sunderland is a tough place to go so having a player on the bench who can change a game should we need it isnt a bad way to go
Not sure according to TalkSport Rio passed and Carrick didn't.
Berbatov isn't a player to come off the bench and change a game. You'd look at Hernandez to do that.
But he's not a player who can really come off the bench and change a game. He's better off starting.
He could have picked something up in the last game for all you know.
No one a little bit excited that bebes on the bench?
No Carrick and Obertan is dissapointing. And Brown and Neville, the squad is 2 or 3 players too big.
I'm not very confident about today. That has nothing to do with the team selection like, it's how i've felt all week.
Sunderland is a tough place to go, we usually struggle there and they seem to have hit some form.
Glad to have Rio back though.
Sunderland is a tough place to go, we usually struggle there and they seem to have hit some form.
Glad to have Rio back though.
I'd rather Berba start, that's what he's best at. We have Chicharito to come off the bench if we need a change or a goal.