Today, Barclays Premier League champions Manchester United will take on FA Cup holders Chelsea at Wembley, to do battle for the first piece of silverware of the season. It will be a very interesting game as Manager Alex Ferguson will get his first real taste of life without Christiono Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez which has been transfer to Real Madrid and Manchester City. Anyway, a world record of £80 mil fee for Ronaldo softened the blow of his exit. What Ferguson did later was bringing Michael Owen from the scrapheap raised eyebrows because the England striker had been so bereft of form and fitness at Newcastle that it was hard to imagine he would ever recapture his glory days. This Manchester Untited manager also believes that they will face a stern test from Chelsea for the title following Carlo Ancelotti’s appointment at Stamford Bridge
Chelsea did a very good pre-season because they didn’t have injuries and therefore are pretty much ready to kick start their season against Red Devils. On the other hand, Manchester United will be struggling in this match as many of their players suffered an injuries and may not be fit for the game. Red Devils’s goalkeepers, Van der Sar is expected to be sidelined for eight weeks after the operation corrected the injury to the finger and a broken bone in his left hand.
The 38-year-old Dutchman sustained the injury saving a penalty from Danijel Pranjic in the Red Devils’ 7-6 shoot-out defeat to Bayern Munich in the pre-season Audi Cup in Germany. Other players are Nemanja Vidic ( calf injury ), Wes Brown ( thigh problem ) and Gary Neville ( groin strain ). Although this player are out for the game today, we have to admit that, Alex Ferguson has many good player up his sleeves such as Anderson, Rooney, Berbatov, Carrick and also Ryan Giggs.
Fourth time in the shield’s history that the Red Devils go head-to-head with the Blues and my prediction is Blues will win this game with 2-0 scores. I have a doubt with Red Devils current defenders and their second’s goalkeeper as they let lots of goals during their friendly matches.
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