Manchester United V Stoke City

Nani

After being knocked out of the FA Cup by Liv­er­pool last Sat­urday, it´s back to the league for Manchester United as they take on Tony Pulis´s Stoke City at Old Traf­ford this Tues­day. In the reverse fix­ture in Septem­ber, the teams drew 1–1 at Brit­an­nia Sta­dium with Luis Nani scor­ing for The Reds while Peter Crouch equal­ised for Stoke.

Manchester United man­aged to edge out an aggress­ive and well organ­ised Stoke City side 2–1 when the two clubs played each other at Old Traf­ford last cam­paign cour­tesy of goals from Javier Hernan­dez and Luis Nani. And just for the sake of inform­a­tion, Stoke´s last top flight tri­umph against Manchester United at the Theatre of Dreams came back in the 1975–76 sea­son when Tony Waddington´s age­ing side won 1–0 thanks to a late goal from long serving ever­green Alan Bloor. Now if foot­ball his­tory and stat­ist­ics are any­thing to go by, then heaven help The Pot­ters! Manchester United Squad: David de Gea, Ben Amos, Fabio, Rafael, Chris Smalling, Rio Ferdin­and, Patrice Evra, Jonny Evans, Michael Car­rick, Paul Scholes, Paul Pogba, Ant­o­nio Valen­cia, Ji-sung Park, Ryan Giggs, Danny Wel­beck, Dim­itar Ber­batov, Javier Hernan­dez, Ash­ley Young, Wayne Rooney.

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