Brucey Brucey give us a wave.
Birmingham City vs. Manchester United
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I think Bruce will try and wind us up. He'll be hoping he can use our defeat v Coventry against us and frustrate us.
Normally we'd breeze to the 3 points. Might be more interesting than we'd like
Good to see Hargreaves back in and around things
Although Reading were very lucky to get their result against us, and very unlucky to lose to Chelsea.
Thats a moral boost for me
I love to see him play, as soon as he begins playing carrick will be on bench again. mark my words
Fergie should play the strongest 11 tomorrow..
VDS
Brown Rio Vidic Evra
Ronaldo Scholes Carrick Giggs
Rooney Tevez
PIG, O'Shea, Hargreaves/Pique, Saha, Nani.
VDS
Brown Rio Vidic Evra
Ronaldo Scholes Carrick Giggs
Rooney Tevez
PIG, O'Shea, Hargreaves/Pique, Saha, Nani.
That wasn't the last game. We last played them in March 2006 at OT, a 3-0 win. Earlier that season we drew 2-2 at St Andrews, a game we should have won, and there was a foul in the build up to their first goal. We also beat them 3-1 in the league cup that season.
The team that played at Chelsea for me, with Saha hopefully able to come on and grab some vital minutes in his road back to full fitness.
Owen Hargreaves could be on the bench for United's Barclays Premier League trip to Birmingham City on Saturday tea-time.
The midfielder has not featured since the 1-0 win over Sunderland at the beginning of this month after picking up a thigh strain whilst on international duty with England.
Sir Alex Ferguson says the 26-year-old has been training well over the last few days and may be included in the squad to face Steve Bruce's men.
"Owen has been doing very well in training and is a consideration for Saturday," revealed the manager at his pre-match press briefing. "He might be a sub or we might decide to hold him back for the Roma game."
Meanwhile, Gary Neville is edging ever closer to a return to action and could play his first match next week.
The Reds' skipper has endured a torrid time since damaging ankle ligaments in March. He has since picked up further minor knocks which have resulted in him missing the opening two months of the current campaign.
But there is finally some light at the end of the tunnel for the right-back.
"Gary is getting closer," insisted Sir Alex. "He has being doing very well in training and I'm hoping to pencil him in for a game at some point next week.
"There is a Reserves match against Liverpool the following week which would be a good introduction to a game situation."
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={B4CEE8FA-9A47-47BC-B069-3F7A2F35DB70}&newsid=474822
The midfielder has not featured since the 1-0 win over Sunderland at the beginning of this month after picking up a thigh strain whilst on international duty with England.
Sir Alex Ferguson says the 26-year-old has been training well over the last few days and may be included in the squad to face Steve Bruce's men.
"Owen has been doing very well in training and is a consideration for Saturday," revealed the manager at his pre-match press briefing. "He might be a sub or we might decide to hold him back for the Roma game."
Meanwhile, Gary Neville is edging ever closer to a return to action and could play his first match next week.
The Reds' skipper has endured a torrid time since damaging ankle ligaments in March. He has since picked up further minor knocks which have resulted in him missing the opening two months of the current campaign.
But there is finally some light at the end of the tunnel for the right-back.
"Gary is getting closer," insisted Sir Alex. "He has being doing very well in training and I'm hoping to pencil him in for a game at some point next week.
"There is a Reserves match against Liverpool the following week which would be a good introduction to a game situation."
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={B4CEE8FA-9A47-47BC-B069-3F7A2F35DB70}&newsid=474822
Owen needs some minutes at least to be ready for Roma.
Hope he plays tomorrow
Hope he plays tomorrow
Fergie being catious on his fitness then. Don't particularly need him with Carrick on form but hopefully he can make it to the bench and get a run about.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7008193.stm
Steve Bennett (Orpington, Kent)
Premier League referees' table
Steve Bennett's 2007-08 Premier League card count
Mark Clattenburg was originally scheduled to control this match, but he has been swapped with Steve Bennett, and is now in charge of the Wigan v Liverpool match.
Steve Bennett (Orpington, Kent)
Premier League referees' table
Steve Bennett's 2007-08 Premier League card count
Mark Clattenburg was originally scheduled to control this match, but he has been swapped with Steve Bennett, and is now in charge of the Wigan v Liverpool match.
Feck, he's shite
Good strong squad we're taking to St Andrews. Best squad we've had this season.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7008193.stm
Steve Bennett (Orpington, Kent)
Premier League referees' table
Steve Bennett's 2007-08 Premier League card count
Mark Clattenburg was originally scheduled to control this match, but he has been swapped with Steve Bennett, and is now in charge of the Wigan v Liverpool match.
Ronaldo to get sent off again then, great
I think that's an important consideration.
I think SAF will either play his first choice team and look to sub some of the important players ASAP or drop a few of the important ones for Tuesday, against Roma.
However, after our dismal display in the Carling Cup, I doubt he'll take a chance so I reckon he'll play the full team.
There is no way we will rest anyone at this stage of the season. Players should'nt be tired. This is a big game, Liverpool and Arsenal both have tough games, and it may be an oppurtunity to capatilise.
So then the question you have to ask is, does our full strength team have Saha in it, in Fergie's eyes?
I and others say that it should, others not. *shrugs*We'll know soon enough.
I agree with you. Look it, tevez scored on sunday against chelsea in his first game up front with rooney, I don't see any reason why we can't put 2 or 3 past birmingham. We certainly created the chnaces to put three or four past chelsea so why not birmingham. I would like to see saha come on in the 75th.
knowing SAF he will drop some of the important player. he always do that . For some reason SAF think the game is won in the last 20 minutes. Perhaps he is right.
After what United went through to get Tevez in the summer he will (IMHO), partner Rooney.
SAF is also now using Saha as a supersub.
but that supersub is a guaranty of goals if you put him from the start
Only for the time being, mainly for Saha to regain full fitness. I'd presume Saha and Tevez will both be rotated fairly when both are at 100% fitness.
Fergie has stated Saha is the key to success this season, with Tevez in the team now, we don't neccesarily need 90 minutes of Saha for most games which can benifit him as it limits the chances of him getting injured this season.
For anyone who saw the interview with SAF on MUTV he said in regards to Saha starting games it wont be too much longer
So dont expect him to start tomorrow but at least we know he will be starting games sooner or later
So dont expect him to start tomorrow but at least we know he will be starting games sooner or later
thats what I hope he does...
We all know how lethal Saha is, is just that Fergie doesn trust his fitness and its using him 20 minutes each game.
Saha is a monster when he is completely fit and on form
yeah, I think so as well, he'll be used with his tendency to get injured in mind, and I expcet SAF to use him more as a super-sub and in certain games as opposed to giving him consecutive starts so that his chances of getting injured are minimized as much as possible. Would love to see him injury-free for the rest of the season, he can prove to be our most important player if he manages to stay fit for that long.
Hopefully this will be our first thrashing.
Tevez and Rooney with a hatrick each please!
Tevez and Rooney with a hatrick each please!
But if that is indeed the case, then Fergie is guilty of the very same mental weakness over Saha's fitness, that Louis himself was accused of by some on here.
That's no way to carry on.
You don't usee your one and only No 9, and also the someone who with a run of games under his belt can be as lethal as we saw in the first six months of last season, as a "super-sub".
Maybe i just dont' have the faith in the Rooney-Tevez partnership of some of you, or tht it can click soon enough, but that's how i see it.
We didnt buy Tevez this summer as a bench warmer. He will most likely get as much games as Saha will. Rooney, as we all know, is a definite starter. So this leaves us with the question of if we field the three of them together or rotate Tevez and Saha. The latter will most likely happen, and it can be seen as a benifit to Saha anyway, since this will limit the chances of him getting injured.
It's not as "easy" as people seem to think, the whole idea that Birmingham will be able to shut us out just as Reading and a few others seemed to be able to do. We're by far the better side, and it's not like managers have just now, this season, figured a miracle-tactic that works against top teams. It's down to us. With Tevez getting a goal against Chelsea, he should be able to grow into the partnership with Rooney. Unless Saha plays, in which case he's odds on to get a goal or two.
would like to see Saha and Tevez play together.....
Birmingham gave Chelski and Pool a very tough time despite playing away, so I expect them to do likewise especially playing at home, but we've got more than enough quality to hand them a good thrashing.
1-3 to United, with Rooney and Ronaldo getting on the score-sheet.
1-3 to United, with Rooney and Ronaldo getting on the score-sheet.
2 (T.Francis, J. Pennant)
7 (R.Moses 6, W.Rooney 1)
7 (R.Moses 6, W.Rooney 1)
Its not just you, i still rate Saha more than Tevez, I think Fergie is trying to give Tevez the games and time to shine.
Hope Tevez start getting some goals cause that was the reason why we brought him.
"could be" will turn into "won't be", because Fergie becomes cautious, as he did with many other players. So we can expect him out of the bench. Probably will be used to train until the game afterwards this one.
it will be good to see Hargreaves get a few minutes under his belt and some match fitness if we're winning comfortably as he'll be needed for the CL game.
I'd like to see Rooney and Tevez both playing off Saha. This 4-2-3-1 works very well for us, and in my view, never have we had better personnel to pull it off effectively. The '3' should be Ronaldo, Rooney and Tevez.
Remember giggsy having two brilliant goals against them in the 05-06 season, seems like longer ago, hope he can repeat the feat and find some form.