Manchester United will travel to London equiped with a lot of form ,
and a huge boost of the return to action of its top quality players .
United will be hoping to dismantle the out of form blues team that is
under transition presently by AVB. United will be hoping to claim their
first League victory over their London rivals at Stamford Bridge in
almost a decade. The last time United beat the London side at Stamford
Bridge was back in 2002 with a soothing 3-0 victory. Meetings between
the two sides have being boisterous, with many bookings as well as a
handfull of marching orders. Over the years, the EPL title have been
completely dominated by the two sides. With the last seven titile
shared among them, with United winning 4 and the London outfits winning
just three. The meeting on Sunday is a different case, as Chelsea are a
hefty 12 points adrift of the 4th place, not to talk of claiming the
title.
United have the best away record this season, having won 8 and
lose one out of the 11 away games this season. And they are in a pole
position of claiming a vital 3 points at the bridge on sunday. United
beat Chelsea 3-1 at Old Trafford back in September, a game that was
proclaimed by Sir Alex Ferguson to be ''Crazy'' game where ''it could
have been 20-18''. It was in that game that Fernando Torres restore his
place for a contention in the greatest miss of the season, having
dribbled pass 3 men including the keeper, the spaniard has only the net
to smile at; but to the bewilderment of everyone, he infelicitously
fired wide.
However, United season have been hampered and disrupted by a huge
and lengthy injury to virtually almost every member of the squad. the
duo of Nani, Rooney, Young and Cleverley are all expected to feature on
sunday, this signals united early season form, putting up a dazzling
and mesmirising display from the team that has an average age of 23 for
which spurs,gunners, and city (in the charity sheild) were all a
victim. Winger Young has not played since the 5 nill vctory at Craven
Cottage; while Nani was stamped by Alex Song in that crucial derby
victory few weeks ago; Also Rooney hasn't played since the game against
Arsenal too; And Cleverley who suffers a recurrent of an ankle injury
sufered against bolton in the 1 nill victory at Everton back in
October.
Anothe problem is the Goal keeping department, where Anders
Lindegaar was ruled out for a month with a knee injury suffered in
training. While David De Gea call in sick; althoug the young burgeoning
spaniard had an extra training session for the past two days, therefore
he should be a huge boost too. Another options is also: Ben Amos,
having made his Debut against Stoke city with a few impressive saves to
deny Cameron Jerome a crucial goal that might bring Stoke back in the
game.
Victory for Manchester United would take them 3 points at the
sumit of the table prior to city's result the following day(Monday)
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