Blackburn v Manchester United

Sca11ywag said:
Referre Phil Dowd.

Isn't he the tit that sent Ronaldo off recently?

No that was the twat Steve Bennett I think.
 
------------ GORAM------------
DUXBURY-PRUNIER--MORAN----GIBSON C

BEARDSMORE---FERGUSON D -- FLETCHER---MILNE

BIRTLES-----DUBLIN



what a central midfield pairing!


in all seriousness, i think rio at back, fletch back in midfield,park and ronaldo wide. unlucky on saha and richardson tho.
 
park in for richardson for me !!!

ruud dropped or rested??????????? interesting!

blackburn team anyone?
 
Park is a decent sub to bring on....Ruud is probably more effective starting, but he may be knackered, although, he could have started and then been withdrawn....

Anyway, the key is to bring them on in time to change things, not with 5 mins to go.
 
Blackburn
B Friedel, L Neill, A Todd, R Nelsen, M Gray, S Reid, R Savage, K Tugay, M Pedersen, D Bentley, S Kuqi
Subs: P Enckelman, B Emerton, A Mokoena, J Johnson, S Peter

Man Utd
E Van der Sar, G Neville, W Brown, N Vidic, P Evra, C Ronaldo, D Fletcher, R Ferdinand, K Richardson, W Rooney, L Saha
Subs: T Howard, R van Nistelrooy, J Park, M Silvestre, G Pique
 
Can't Friedel get a knock in warm up or something?
 
ThomasM said:
weird strategy, allow ruud and rooney to play against wolves while looking knackered, then rest our top scorer in an important league match instead.

The Wolves match was obviously more important then tonights match.
 
ThomasM said:
hehe.
though seriously, its kinda weird, since we know how good friedel usually is against us

True. But for all we know Ruud could've got a small knock or summat like that.
 
Please, can Friedel just once make the dudekperformance...
 
Maybe Fergie decided it's time he rotated the strikers up front. Like give each one 60 mins per game and then 30 in the next. Or he just feels at the moment Saha is a bigger goalscoring threat than Ruud is.
 
The surprise for me is that Smith is not on the bench. 2 CBs, 1 winger & 1 striker. Not another injury, I hope!
 
It probably boils down to the fact that Fergie reckons that Saha deserves some matches now so he had to drop either Rooney or Ruud. And it ended with beeing Ruud.

Fair enough that.
 
SAF's said plenty of times recently that he's definitely resting players around now cos we've got so many games.
this will be our most intensive time of ht season.
usually its in march/april, but being out of europe means we'll have more free mid-weeks in feb + mar.
I think its a sound strategy. most everybody gets to play, and everyone gets rested.
 
United's team tonight is all about pace - Evra, Rio, Ronaldo, Richardson, Rooney & Saha. Perhaps that's the main reason why Park & Ruud are on the bench.

Blackburn don't really have any players that are as fast.
 
Red17 said:
United's team tonight is all about pace - Evra, Rio, Ronaldo, Richardson, Rooney & Saha. Perhaps that's the main reason why Park & Ruud are on the bench.

Blackburn don't really have any players that are as fast.
Park is very fast too:smirk: