Man Utd v Sunderland (Old Trafford, Saturday, 1 September 1715 BST)
The return of Roy Keane and another must win game at home. Sometimes games become harder than normal due to some extra significance or other. Normally, a home game against a newly promoted side who looked woefully short against Liverpool the previous week has comfortable win all over it. But then you put Roy Keane into the picture and you have to think again.
Also, in theory, United will have another striker back from injury as Louis Saha is touted to make his season debut, but fans have learnt from experience and I will believe nothing about the man will more injury problems than Kieron Dyan until I see him running around on the pitch. Anderson is also a possible for the bench. It is the last game of Ronaldo’s ban. Can’t wait to get Ronaldo and Nani going to tandem from what I’ve seen of the new Portuguese starlet.
It is unclear what the Sunderland team will be as they have made quite a few signing this week, including one Andrew Cole. After some bad defeats in the league, it got worse for Keane in the week when they lost badly to Luton in the Worthless Cup. Suffice to say it should be a comfortable win, but these games have a habit of going wrong. If Sunderland get an early goal, they may hang on and we’ll struggle to get a win. Remember Birmingham 2 season ago? Got a draw with a late goal from Alan Smith (I seem to remember he was the only fit striker at the time as well).
Prediction 2-0 (with a backup of a late scrambled equaliser in a 1-1 draw)
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It’s a pity I won’t get to see the game ….. or will I ????
i felt as if United were lucky enough to win the game.You doubt that this is United best squad so far.Yes we can say that if rooney and ronaldo are included.United should learn how to play without big names rather.But still we stand chance.United till i die.!!!
@drvynum: sorry for the delay in approving your comment for some reason I never got notified that it had been posted.
I agree that there is a problem with big stars that you become dependent on them and it is better to have a Team. That said, with a player as good as Ronaldo or Rooney how can you not come to depend on them? They are irreplaceable