Blackburn V Manchester United

Rio Ferdin­and

Manchester United make the short trip to Ewood Park to take on Black­burn Rovers side this Monday. In the reverse Eng­lish Premier League clash in Decem­ber, The Blue and Whites sur­pris­ingly edged out Manchester United by 3–2 at Old Traf­ford thanks to a double from Nigerian front­man Yak­ubu Aiyeg­beni and a goal from Grant Han­ley.

Accord­ing to the latest med­ical inform­a­tion, Manchester United and Eng­land defender Rio Ferdin­and will be fit for the import­ant league fix­ture with neigh­bours Black­burn Rovers on Monday. The River­siders, for their part, will prob­ably have to make do without the ser­vices of France inter­na­tional centre half Gael Givet due to injury. In the cor­res­pond­ing fix­ture last cam­paign, the two teams drew 1–1 with the Ewood Park out­fit going ahead in the first period through Brett Emer­ton after the area-to-area mid­field play­maker man­aged to beat Manchester United net cus­todian Tomasz Kusz­ack with a thun­der­bolt effort. In the second period, how­ever, Eng­land inter­na­tional cent­ral attacker Wayne Rooney con­ver­ted a highly con­tro­ver­sial pen­alty to bring Sir Alex Ferguson´s troops level. And although Manchester United could only man­age a nar­row 1–0 vic­tory against Ful­ham at The Theatre of Dreams in their last league game, The Manchester Reds should bag another three points against Steve Kean´s Black­burn side this upcom­ing Monday. Eng­lish Premier League: Black­burn Rovers V Manchester United. Venue: Ewood Park. Ref­eree: Howard Webb.

Black­burn Rovers Pro­vi­sional Squad: Paul Robin­son, Jason Lowe, Scott Dann, Grant Han­ley, Mar­tin Ols­son, Mauro Formica, Steven Nzonzi, Mar­cus Ols­son, Junior Hoi­lett, Morten Gamst Ped­er­sen, Yak­ubu, David Dunn, Radosav Pet­ro­vic, Anthony Mod­este, Gael Givet, Brad­ley Orr, Mark Bunn, Ruben Roch­ina, Adam Hen­ley, David Good­wil­lie, Simon Vuk­cevic. Manchester United Pro­vi­sional Squad: David de Gea, Ben Amos, Rafael, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling, Rio Ferdin­and, Jonny Evans, Fabio, Patrice Evra, Valen­cia, Ji-sung Park, Paul Scholes, Tom Clev­er­ley, Michael Car­rick, Paul Pogba, Ash­ley Young, Ryan Giggs, Wayne Rooney, Danny Wel­beck, Javier Hernan­dez, Dim­itar Berbatov.

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