Manchester United Welcome Arsenal

Sir Alex Ferguson

Manchester United host Arsenal in the FA Cup Quarter Final on Sat­urday in what prom­ises to be a cracker of a game. Arsenal were beaten by Bar­celona in the Cham­pi­ons League in mid­week, while Manchester United lost against Liv­er­pool last Sunday. Nani will miss out for the hosts after suf­fer­ing a deep gash in his leg against the Anfield­ers, but skip­per Nemanja Vidic will make a wel­come return to the back­line after serving a one game ban.

Sir Alex Fer­guson: “The Gun­ners rep­res­ent the main danger to us in a revival of the rivalry of a few years ago. I am quite sure they regard Manchester United as the major threat to their hopes. Last sea­son, the club even­tu­ally faded to leave Chelsea and ourselves in a two horse race that saw us pipped at the post by a point. I think the pun­dits expec­ted to see some­thing sim­ilar this sea­son, plus a chal­lenge from Tot­ten­ham and Manchester City, to make it even more dif­fi­cult for Arsene Wenger´s play­ers to get back up to the top.”

Arsenal’s last trip to Old Traf­ford ended in a nar­row 1–0 defeat for The Gunners.

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