A game we can afford to lose but a game we can't possibly contemplate losing.
Everyone seems to be saying a draw would do us, but that if Liverpool win they're back in the race. Let's face it, we can afford to lose three games even if Chelsea or Liverpool win all their remaining games, so a defeat here would not get Liverpool anywhere close (a third closer I suppose, literally, but anyway...). And yet it is not something I really want to or, or am, contemplating. Let's just hammer them.
Considering the way they beat us in the game at Anfield, which was certainly not by outplaying us, but by clogging the game up, sort of like Stoke, only more successful, I really don't see any other result than us winning, now we're in the groove. Putting any weight on Liverpool's win over Real Madrid seems a mistake as well, their European form and their League form are two separate things (and hopefully the referee won't give them a two goal lead).
History also on our side, Benitez never having beaten us at Old Trafford, the only goal under Benitez for Liverpool coming from a John O'Shea own goal and The Independent point out that Liverpool have only beaten us three times at Old Trafford since the Premier League started, all of these coming via a Danny Murphy goal. Plus Benitez's record against the "big 4" is also rubbish, only winning 7 from 28, losing 14 times.
So we're going to win.
The BBC has this fact:
The Telegraph give this as our probable team:
Prediction, 2-0 to us. What I'm envisaging is this: us absolutely controlling the game and scoring a couple of quality goals early doors before completely shutting them out of the game via some quality possession football. Let it come true...
Everyone seems to be saying a draw would do us, but that if Liverpool win they're back in the race. Let's face it, we can afford to lose three games even if Chelsea or Liverpool win all their remaining games, so a defeat here would not get Liverpool anywhere close (a third closer I suppose, literally, but anyway...). And yet it is not something I really want to or, or am, contemplating. Let's just hammer them.
Considering the way they beat us in the game at Anfield, which was certainly not by outplaying us, but by clogging the game up, sort of like Stoke, only more successful, I really don't see any other result than us winning, now we're in the groove. Putting any weight on Liverpool's win over Real Madrid seems a mistake as well, their European form and their League form are two separate things (and hopefully the referee won't give them a two goal lead).
History also on our side, Benitez never having beaten us at Old Trafford, the only goal under Benitez for Liverpool coming from a John O'Shea own goal and The Independent point out that Liverpool have only beaten us three times at Old Trafford since the Premier League started, all of these coming via a Danny Murphy goal. Plus Benitez's record against the "big 4" is also rubbish, only winning 7 from 28, losing 14 times.
So we're going to win.
The BBC has this fact:
Victory here would make this their [Man Utd's] best ever Premier League sequence of 12 successive victories, and leave them one short of Arsenal's Premier League record of 13.Which would make the victory even sweeter, although it will be very sweet anyway.
The Telegraph give this as our probable team:
Van der Sar; Neville, Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra; Ronaldo, Carrick, Scholes, Park; Rooney, Berbatov.Not sure why they've got Neville there, everywhere else I've looked still has him as out, so let's assume O'Shea's in there and I also see Fletcher rather than Scholes in midfield, to give a bit of extra bite in there. Tevez is being tipped for a start in a few places and it would certainly be the type of game that Tevez could thrive in.
Prediction, 2-0 to us. What I'm envisaging is this: us absolutely controlling the game and scoring a couple of quality goals early doors before completely shutting them out of the game via some quality possession football. Let it come true...
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