Manchester United Big Favourites

Sir Alex Ferguson

Manchester United wel­come Wigan Ath­letic to Old Traf­ford this Sat­urday look­ing to bag three points. The hosts will miss Ander­son, Rafael da Silva, Owen Har­greaves, Michael Owen and Ant­o­nio Valen­cia who are out with injur­ies, while the vis­it­ors will be without Emmer­son Boyce and James McCarthy who are side­lined with long term injur­ies. The Reds have now gone 13 games without defeat this sea­son and they are big favour­ites to beat Wigan.

Sir Alex Fer­guson: “I think Wigan Ath­letic man­ager Roberto Mar­tinez gets the rewards by stick­ing to his philo­sophy. Mar­tinez sticks by what he believes in and that’s good. It shows he has strong man­age­ment and I think his play­ers now believe in him too. There is a bit of incon­sist­ency about them but they are cap­able. Wigan beat Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur at White Hart Lane, had a good res­ult against West Brom­wich Albion and drew with Liv­er­pool. There are sur­prise res­ults com­ing about. We saw some evid­ence of that last cam­paign and it has been the same this sea­son. Many people make a story about Manchester United being undefeated, but we have thrown points away, whereas last week we stole a point.”

Manchester United have not lost a match in the Premier League since April.