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Pick your Manchester United team to face Wolverhampton Wanderers
How will your Premier League line-up compare with Sir Alex Ferguson's?
5 Mar 2010 13:21:00
By Matt Monaghan | Manchester United correspondent
Calling all armchair managers! The time has come to pit your wits against Sir Alex Ferguson and see whether he agrees with your team selection for Manchester United's Premier League match against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
United have been dealt a bitter blow by Michael Owen's season-ending injury, but welcome Rio Ferdinand back for the trip to the Midlands. The England captain's return will boost a back-line that has flagged in his absence.
With the midweek crunch clash against AC Milan coming up, the chance for Ferdinand to stretch his legs will be welcomed. Jonny Evans' withdrawal from the Northern Ireland squad has increased the importance of this development.
Champions League commitments could have seen Ferguson tempted to rest Wayne Rooney and throw Owen into the fray again. Now, Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov can expect to link up at Molineux, with Mame Biram Diouf ready to strike from the bench, although Ferguson revealed today that there is a doubt about Rooney's fitness.
After leading Scotland to victory against the Czech Republic, Darren Fletcher could also miss out with Michael Carrick's impending European suspension granting him a starting place. The end of Nani's domestic ban should see him given a substitute's spot, with Antonio Valencia's outstanding form in his absence being preferred.
Availability:
Goalkeepers: Edwin Van der Sar, Tomasz Kuszczak, Ben Foster.
Defenders: Rafael da Silva, Gary Neville, Wes Brown, Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand, Ritchie De Laet, Patrice Evra, Fabio da Silva.
Midfielders: Antonio Valencia, Gabriel Obertan, Darren Fletcher, Michael Carrick, Paul Scholes, Nani, Darron Gibson, Ji-Sung Park.
Attackers: Dimitar Berbatov, Wayne Rooney, Mame Biram Diouf.
Leave your team selection in the comments below, using semi-colons to separate positions and working from right to left. For example, here’s Goal.com UK's preferred line-up, using a fluid 4-4-2 formation:
Van der Sar; Rafael da Silva, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra; Valencia, Scholes, Carrick, Park; Berbatov, Rooney.
Substitutes: Kuszczak, Brown, Neville, Fletcher, Gibson, Nani, Diouf.
Calling all armchair managers! The time has come to pit your wits against Sir Alex Ferguson and see whether he agrees with your team selection for Manchester United's Premier League match against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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United have been dealt a bitter blow by Michael Owen's season-ending injury, but welcome Rio Ferdinand back for the trip to the Midlands. The England captain's return will boost a back-line that has flagged in his absence.
With the midweek crunch clash against AC Milan coming up, the chance for Ferdinand to stretch his legs will be welcomed. Jonny Evans' withdrawal from the Northern Ireland squad has increased the importance of this development.
Champions League commitments could have seen Ferguson tempted to rest Wayne Rooney and throw Owen into the fray again. Now, Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov can expect to link up at Molineux, with Mame Biram Diouf ready to strike from the bench, although Ferguson revealed today that there is a doubt about Rooney's fitness.
After leading Scotland to victory against the Czech Republic, Darren Fletcher could also miss out with Michael Carrick's impending European suspension granting him a starting place. The end of Nani's domestic ban should see him given a substitute's spot, with Antonio Valencia's outstanding form in his absence being preferred.
Availability:
Goalkeepers: Edwin Van der Sar, Tomasz Kuszczak, Ben Foster.
Defenders: Rafael da Silva, Gary Neville, Wes Brown, Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand, Ritchie De Laet, Patrice Evra, Fabio da Silva.
Midfielders: Antonio Valencia, Gabriel Obertan, Darren Fletcher, Michael Carrick, Paul Scholes, Nani, Darron Gibson, Ji-Sung Park.
Attackers: Dimitar Berbatov, Wayne Rooney, Mame Biram Diouf.
Leave your team selection in the comments below, using semi-colons to separate positions and working from right to left. For example, here’s Goal.com UK's preferred line-up, using a fluid 4-4-2 formation:
Van der Sar; Rafael da Silva, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra; Valencia, Scholes, Carrick, Park; Berbatov, Rooney.
Substitutes: Kuszczak, Brown, Neville, Fletcher, Gibson, Nani, Diouf.
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