Manchester United To Beat Wigan

Michael Owen

Sir Alex Ferguson´s Manchester United side make the short jour­ney to Wigan to take on releg­a­tion bat­tling Wigan Ath­letic this upcom­ing Sat­urday. Oman inter­na­tional Ali Al Habsi should return to action for the strug­gling home side after being ineligible to face Bolton Wan­der­ers last week, while Manchester United will miss Ander­son, Owen Har­greaves, Ji-sung Park and Ant­o­nio Valen­cia who are all out side­lined with long term injuries.

Sir Alex Fer­guson: “Michael Owen is back train­ing and could be avail­able on Sat­urday. The situ­ation has not changed very much. We are try­ing to get Ryan Giggs fit. Rio Ferdin­and and Jonny Evans will be avail­able for next week, and that means the Liv­er­pool game. It is rather dif­fi­cult to assess Ant­o­nio Valen­cia because he is doing very well. Valen­cia has been tak­ing part in all the ses­sions, so it is just that decision to play him in terms of his own con­fid­ence after such a long time out. It could be two weeks. Ji-sung Park will be two weeks and Ander­son three weeks, depend­ing on how the player‘s pro­gress goes.”

The Lat­ics have lost each of their 11 Premier League meet­ings with The Reds.

The Offi­cial Illus­trated His­tory of Manchester United