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Manchester United faces West Bromwich Albion

Aug13
2011 Leave a Comment

With the start of the new Premier League season, champions Manchester United begin the defence of their crown with a tough trip to West Bromwich Albion. Being the first game of the season, all eyes are on them. A balanced game, with chances for any team.

West Brom faces some problems with Peter Odemwingie who is struggling to overcome the ankle injury suffered in the pre-season friendly at Bristol City. Some good news for them are that right-back Steven Reid and Youssouf Mulumbu are available after injury.

In the Red Devils camp, the one in doubt is, the full-back Evra was forced out of last week’s Community Shield win over Manchester City with a knee injury and was not fit enough to play in France’s midweek friendly with Chile.

Manchester’s manager, Sir Ferguson confirmed that Evra is still struggling, so either Fabio or Jonny Evans will likely step in.

Lineup for Sunday:
West Bromwich Albion: Foster, Reid, Tamas, Olsson, Shorey, Mulumbu, Scharner, Brunt, Morrison, Thomas, Long, Odemwingie, Cox, Fulop, Jones, Cech, Tchoyi, Ibanez, Dorrans, Jara, Fortune.

Manchester United: De Gea, Lindegaard, Rafael, Smalling, Ferdinand, Vidic, Jones, Evra, Evans, Fabio, Nani, Park, Cleverley, Anderson, Carrick, Giggs, Young, Rooney, Berbatov, Welbeck, Diouf, Owen, Macheda

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Injury in Manchester’s camp

Aug11
2011 Leave a Comment

With just one week before Premier League new season start, Manchester United’s on-loan winger Bebe brought them an ugly surprise. He will be out for six months after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament.

Bebe suffered his injury during a game played for Portugal under-21s in Slovakia on Tuesday. The 21-year-old player joined Turkish club, Besiktas on loan in June, with a view to staying for the duration of the 2011/12 season.

A statement on the club’s official site said: “Manchester United forward Bebe, currently on loan at Besiktas in Turkey, has suffered a serious knee injury and will face a lengthy spell on the sidelines.”

“Bebe tore his left anterior cruciate ligament in Portugal Under-21s’ 1-1 draw against Slovakia on Tuesday night and will now require surgery to repair the damage to his left knee.”

“It is unclear at this stage whether he will remain at Besiktas or undertake his rehabilitation in Manchester.”

Although the losing a player is not a good thing, Manchester has a lot of players to chose from. And with so little time remained to the start of the new season, the last year champions must stay concentrated to have a good start.

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Premier League threatened

Aug10
2011 Leave a Comment

The country that sais they invented football is in a bit of a danger. Last week brought in the bigger towns a lot of riots. Young people gathered in groups smashed, burned and destroyed shops, buildings and vehicles. Football officials are getting worried because these riots could interfere with Premier League’s schedule.

Beside them, the players are amazed of all those acts of hooliganism. One of the most loved players from England, Manchester United striker, Wayne Rooney said: “These riots are nuts, why would people do this to their own country and city? This is embarrassing for our country. Please stop!”

Another problem caused by these riots is the future of England with Holland game. The announcement of the game’s cancellation was made after consultation between the FA, the Metropolitan Police, the Government and Brent Council.

Adrian Bevington, the managing director said: “On behalf of the squad, we would like to say that we are disappointed that the game has been cancelled but we understand the decision and support it.”

For the beauty of football, just hope the riots will stop so we could enjoy the every week show brought to us by Barclays Premier League.

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Arsenal doing the right move

Aug09
2011 Leave a Comment

Taking chance of the last week before the start of Premier League, Arsenal completed last night the signing of winger Alex Oxalade-Chamberlain from Southampton.

The officials announced that Oxalade-Chamberlain has moved to the Emirates Stadium for a record fee of the club, with Arsenal to pay 12 million pounds now and another 3 millions in add-ons. The player who will turn 18 years old next Monday was long awaited by Arsene Wenger, being categorized as a player with rich potential.

Arsene Wenger, the Gunners manager spoke: “We are delighted that Alex has decided to join us. He is an exciting young player who will provide us with creativity and offensive quality.”

“Alex is a versatile player who can play in a number of positions as an attacking centre midfielder, or wide left and right. He is a perceptive passer of the ball and has a great understanding of the game and looks to be a very good team player.” continued Wenger.

Being a hot player on the market as Manchester United and Chelsea showed interest, Arsenal managed to pull the right moves and took the young player. Now let’s wait for the start of Premier League. It will really be an interesting one.

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Nani, hero for Man United

Aug08
2011 Leave a Comment

The Community Shield from yesterday was a game worthy off all cheer and applause. Facing two of the most important teams from the Premier League, and not mentioning that they are from the same town, Manchester, with a long history of their rivalry, United and City offered an extraordinary show for the eye.

City started full throttle a game that, after the first period the score was 2-0 for them. Things couldn’t be more perfect for Mancini’s team. The only thing is that, when you have an opponent like Man United, you have to keep standards high during the whole game.

Being brought to reality during the break, United came back alive. In the 52 minute, Chris Smalling got rewarded for his efforts and took the score to 2-1. But this wasn’t enough for the Red Devils. Taking advantage of their genius player, Nani took the initiative accompanied by Rooney and managed to equal in 58th minute of the game and then, just before the final whistle, stroke another time, taking the Community Shield.

After the game Rooney said: “Have to say, I think today was a footballing lesson. Great win for the champions.”

Congratulations Manchester United!

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