United On Fire

It’s back to the FA Cup after the win in the Champions League against Lyon. Portsmouth come back to Old Trafford shortly after losing in Manchester comprehensively a short time ago in the league.

The good thing about playing all these Premier League teams is that we’ve had to put out fairly strong sides each time and not suffered what I call Reserve Team Syndrome like we did in the Carling Cup. It has also helped that most of the games have been at home.

Apart from long term absences (admit it; you completely forget we had Michael Silvestre, didn’t you? also admit that a shiver went through you when you realised he might play for us again) we have everyone fit, including Ryan Giggs and even Louis Saha. Fergie will role his special midfield picking dice and go for Anderson and Hargreaves.
Rooney won’t mind when he is put back on the bench.

Portsmouth are in a reasonable run of form but Jermaine Defoe is cup tied and he has scored 3 of the 5 goals Portsmouth have scored since playing us.

Prediction: 2-0 to United, one of the goals producing one of the following :-

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