United On Fire

Villa are the sort of team you always want to play near the end of the season. Villa are 7th but with little chance of getting a European spot and have no win in four games. In short, they have nothing to play for. The last sort of team you want to face now is a team on the edge of the relegation battle. When playing Arsenal or Chelsea, you know it will be a battle and will be up for it. When you face a team at the bottom, subconsciously you think it will be easy but those teams have a lot to play for. Look at the Derby game, and they are virtually down.

Of course saying that, all teams seem to raise their game against United and with the Roma game coming up on Tuesday rotation will have its part to play too. It’ll be two from four in central midfield after the unfortunate Darren Fletcher got injured playing for Scotland. I’m sure he would have started against Villa. My random number generator has picked Scholes and Hargreaves this time.

I think Rooney will be rested (he played for England) but Ronaldo will play (he didn’t play for Portugal). I’d like to see Tevez start and get on the scoresheet this time round.

Prediction: 3-1 to United (Wes Brown hattrick)

Image Arsenal vs Aston Villa, by Jaime Ramírez Garrido

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