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EPL ~ Manchester United vs Blackburn Rovers ~ Nov 11
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Big-Match Facts
Manchester United play the first Premier League match of Sir Alex Ferguson's 22nd year in charge.
United, buoyed by qualification to the knock-out stages of the Champions League, are seeking a sixth successive Premier League home victory, which would take them three points clear of Arsenal at the top, as the Gunners don't play away to Reading until Monday evening.
Blackburn, like United, have lost just one league match this season, and are searching for a 50th victory in this league under Mark Hughes.
Hughes, scored 162 goals in 472 games for the Red Devils, and won two league titles, three FA Cups, the Cup Winners' Cup and the League Cup with them.
Blackburn were doubled by Manchester United last season. The reverse was the case in the previous season, when Rovers picked up their only Premier League victory at Old Trafford to date; prevailing 1-2 on 24 September 2005 with a double from Morten Gamst Pedersen.
Club Form
1. Won seven and drawn one of the last eight in all competitions, since losing 0-2, home to Coventry in the third round of the Carling Cup on 26 September.
2. Unbeaten in nine Premier League matches. Won eight and drawn one since the 1-0 away defeat to Manchester City on 19 August.
3. One of three clubs with eight Premier League wins. The others are Arsenal and Manchester City.
4. Boasting the joint meanest defence in the Premier League, with six goals conceded in 12 outings, at one goal shipped every 180 minutes (three hours) on average. Liverpool have also conceded just six goals, but from 11 outings.
5. Opened the scoring in an unrivalled nine Premier League matches this season.
6. Managed seven clean sheets in the highest league. No club can beat that, although Chelsea can match it.
7. Only dropped points to Manchester City in the last 17 league clashes with fellow north-west clubs, since the odd goal in seven reverse to Blackburn on 1 February last year.
8. One of six clubs still holding an unbeaten home record in the Premier Division.
9. Hoping to add the scalp of Blackburn to those of Spurs, Sunderland, Chelsea, Wigan and Middlesbrough gained in the last five league outings at Old Trafford.
10. Middlesbrough's Jeremie Aliadiere is the only visiting player to have scored a Premier League goal at the Theatre of Dreams this season.
Key Player Notes
Cristiano Ronaldo is Manchester United's top scorer with eight goals.
Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez are the clubs top Premier League marksmen, with four each.
Louis Saha has scored four goals in his last four league and cup appearances against Blackburn.
Ryan Giggs is one short of 100 career league goals.
Rio Ferdinand is the only remaining player to have started all of Manchester United's Premier League matches this season.
Head to Head
Home and away
League (inc PL): Man United 39 wins, Blackburn 27, Draws 22
Prem: Man United 14 wins, Blackburn 5, Draws 7
at Man United only
League (inc PL): Man United 24 wins, Blackburn 9, Draws 11
Prem: Man United 9 wins, Blackburn 1, Draws 3
Last Season's Corresponding Game
Manchester United 4-1 Blackburn Rovers
31 March 2007 - Ref: Chris Foy
Man United scorers: Scholes 61, Carrick 73, Park 83, Solskjaer 90
Blackburn scorer: Derbyshire 29 -
Ryan Giggs is one short of 100 career league goals.
score please! -
Tricky match?
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like damn long liao horOriginally posted by sand king: score please! -
might be raped
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Ya Friedel always seems to play very well against us.Originally posted by lpx88:Tricky match?
We'll have to be patient, hope the fans get behind the team like last season's game. -
EPL ~ Manchester United vs Blackburn Rovers ~ Nov 11
Sunday, 11 November 2007:
Channel: 22 - 10.55pm (Live)
Sorry people, my mistake. This match is actually on a Sunday, didn't check properly. Sorry. -
Manchester United will be without striker Wayne Rooney for four weeks after he injured an ankle in training.
The England international left the club's Carrington base on crutches, meaning he will not feature against Blackburn at Old Trafford on Sunday.
Rovers manager Mark Hughes will not consider midfielder Steven Reid, who is not fully fit following 14 months of knee and back problems.
Hughes has no new injury worries and is set to choose from an unchanged squad.
Man Utd (from): Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Brown, O'Shea, Ferdinand, Vidic, Pique, Evans, Evra, Simpson, Ronaldo, Hargreaves, Anderson, Fletcher, Eagles, Carrick, Giggs, Nani, Saha, Tevez.
Blackburn (from): Friedel, Brown, Emerton, Nelsen, Samba, Ooijer, Warnock, Berner, Bentley, Dunn, Pedersen, Santa Cruz, McCarthy, Derbyshire, Tugay, Mokoena, Rigters, Khizanishvili, Treacy. -
sian man rooney injured again after a freak accident while training.
thats a big loss, especially after it took him a while for rooney and tevez to build up an understanding and teamwork between them. -
thats why!Originally posted by omgukilledkenny:like damn long liao hor -
i read the new paper, and i saw that they drawed with arsenal, liverpool and chelsea
blackburn tend to play like professionals when against good teams, especially the big four
and also, their condition are good now
but without rooney, manure will still win, their form now is more than superb
so roses, too bad
home somemore, what do you think? -
1-0
ronaldo! -
2-0Originally posted by thoreldan:1-0
ronaldo!
ronaldo again!! -
YEAH RONALDO! He's on fire man. Santa cruz looks rather good, can get him instead of berbatov. A similar type of van nistelrooy, just faster
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no, dont let man u score so many goals. total 3 goals please.
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they shud really sell tevez.
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nutsy u bet bo jio meOriginally posted by popmynutsy:no, dont let man u score so many goals. total 3 goals please. 
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okz lah one more goal for giggs enoughOriginally posted by popmynutsy:no, dont let man u score so many goals. total 3 goals please. -
tevez really can't pass. the angle always not right.
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Tevez and saha can't click.. the pass that lead to ronaldo's goal, should pass to saha, but he overhit it to ronaldo..
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ahh. 2-0. sian. man u home ground 2-0 abit not that good right?
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Oh yeah, did anyone notice Bentley's name was spelled wrongly on his jersey?
Betnley, ha, ha.. -
Anderson and Tevez's passing abit off today.
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yea lol..Originally posted by MidnightK:Oh yeah, did anyone notice Bentley's name was spelled wrongly on his jersey?
Betnley, ha, ha..