EPL - Manchester United vs West Ham - May 3

• Sienx

  2 May 08, 19:54

   

   

  Rooney has a chance, but Vida's out

   

  Wayne Rooney could be among the substitutes for United's vital Premier League clash with West Ham on Saturday at Old Trafford, but Nemanja Vidic will be missing.
  
  Rooney has been struggling with a hip injury sustained in the 1-1 draw at Ewood Park last month.
  
  He featured in Barcelona and at Chelsea last weekend, but was substituted in both games and subsequently sat out the Champions League semi-final, second leg victory over Barca last Tuesday.
  
  Sir Alex says he is making good progress with his recovery, but with a Champions League final looming large, the United boss will not be taking any chances.
  
  "Wayne may be on the bench," revealed Sir Alex at his pre-match press conference. "But we've got a major final to think about and we're not going to rush him."
  
  Vidic, meanwhile, should be fit to face Wigan next Sunday after spending the next few days recovering from concussion sustained in an accidental collision with Didier Drogba last weekend.
  
  Sir Alex also confirmed Patrice Evra, who was stretchered off in injury time against Barca, is fit to face the Hammers.

• gigabyte14

  2 May 08, 19:58

  holy shit

  i bought 3-0

  siao liao siao liao

• zocoss

  2 May 08, 20:38

  No striker how can you buy 3 nil?...

• Sienx

  2 May 08, 20:44

  Originally posted by zocoss:

  No striker how can you buy 3 nil?...

  
  we got the boy from portugal as well as the savior from argentina

• ctstalin

  2 May 08, 20:51

  judging by west ham's team news...the 3 pts are there for the taking

• zocoss

  2 May 08, 21:26

  We won't roll over at United

  

  SCOTT PARKER has vowed that West Ham will not roll over at Manchester United. United are desperate for victory as they look to pip Chelsea to the Premier League title. Blues boss Avram Grant has blasted Hammers chief Alan Curbishley for predicting that United will win the title.

  But Parker has hit back, saying: "We're certainly not going to roll over. "We're professional footballers and we take pride in what we do. We have to try and take something out of the game for ourselves.

  "Me ease up? I don't know how. I will keep playing and tackling the way I normally do. "I will try and do my best, as always, and see what happens. Of course it's a massive game for Manchester United and Chelsea but from where I am it's a big game for us as well.

  "We want to finish in that 10th spot. We would see it as a massive disappointment if we did not manage it after being in that position in the table for so long. "We're going into the game focusing on what we have to do. We can't spend too much time looking at what the game means for Manchester United."

• omgukilledkenny

  2 May 08, 22:35

  If we dont get an early goal, i think the fan's anxiety will get to the players......hope we wont buckle under the pressure.

• iceFatboy

  3 May 08, 01:49

  nah, the fans are great...

  just hope that hammers don't anyhow hammer, but kanna hammered..

• zocoss

  3 May 08, 12:22

       

  Man Utd v West Ham

   

  Manchester United will definitely be without defender Nemanja Vidic for the crucial match against West Ham following his recent concussion.

  However, striker Wayne Rooney (hip) could be fit to start on the bench and Patrice Evra, who was stretchered off at Barcelona in midweek, will start.

  West Ham expect winger Julien Faubert to have shaken off a slight hamstring problem to be fit to start.

  However, Freddie Ljungberg (rib) has been added to the list of injuries.

   

   

  MANCHESTER UNITED

  Cristiano RONALDO is Manchester United's top scorer with 38 goals.

  The Portuguese is also United's leading Premier League marksman with 28, and in pole position for the Barclays Golden Boot, four goals ahead of Emmanuel ADEBAYOR of Arsenal.

  RONALDO is unlikely now to equal Denis LAW's club record 46 goals in the 1963-64 season, and with only three games remaining will be hard pressed to catch Ruud VAN NISTELROOY's 44-goal haul in 2002-03.

  Between them, RONALDO, Carlos TEVEZ and Wayne ROONEY have scored 74 of Manchester United's 103 goals this season in all competitions, and 53 of their 74 (72%) in the Premier League.

  Ryan GIGGS is still on course to equal Bobby Charlton's all time appearance record for Manchester United before the season is out. The Wales international will match Charlton's 759 appearances, if he plays a part in each of United's three remaining matches.

   

  WEST HAM UNITED

  Dean ASHTON is West Ham's top scorer with nine goals.

  ASHTON is also the Hammers' top Premier League marksmen with eight.

  The club's Premier League goal-scorers list is predominately comprised of English players (10 of 14).

  Robert GREEN is the only remaining player to have been on the field for every minute of every one of West Ham's Premier League matches this season.

   

   

   

  Manchester United (from): Van der Sar, Neville, Brown, Ferdinand, Silvestre, Evra, 0'Shea, Ronaldo, Scholes, Anderson, Nani, Hargreaves, Carrick, Giggs, Park, Fletcher, Rooney, Tevez, Kuszczak, Pique, Welbeck.

  West Ham (from): Green, Pantsil, Tomkins, Neill, McCartney, Faubert, Parker, Noble, Boa Morte, Zamora, Ashton, Walker, Mullins, Cole, Solano, Sears, Spector, Collison.

   

  REFEREE

  Mike Riley (Leeds, Yorkshire)

   

  LAST SEASON'S CORRESPONDING GAME

  Manchester United 0-1 West Ham United
  13 May 2007 - Ref: Martin Atkinson
  West Ham scorer: Tevez 45

   

   

  THIS SEASON'S REVERSE FIXTURE

  West Ham United 2-1 Manchester United
  29 December 2007 - Ref: Mike Dean
  West Ham scorers: Ferdinand 77, Upson 82
  Man Utd scorer: Ronaldo 14

   

• zocoss

  3 May 08, 12:42

  

   

  WENGER: HAMMERS WON`T LIE DOWN

  Alan Curbishley would not be so "disrespectful" as have his West Ham team lie down at Manchester United on Saturday, according to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. Chelsea have been left less than impressed by recent comments in a newspaper column from the Hammers boss, who felt it would be an injustice if United did not go on and win the championship.

  However at Thursday's pre-match press conference Curbishley insisted there would be "no gimmes" from his men on Saturday in the lunchtime kick-off at Old Trafford and has again on Friday slammed talk of favouring United as "ridiculous".

  Gunners boss Arsene Wenger - whose third-placed side still have an outside chance of catching the leaders, whom they trail by four points - has no doubts Curbishley will take West Ham to Manchester looking for another famous victory. "What you expect from Alan Curbishley is that he is entitled to have his opinion," said Wenger, "but Alan Curbishley has been in football for a long time and if he goes up there, nobody would forgive him not to give absolutely everything with his team to make a result.

  "I know Alan Curbishley and he has pride - to lie down in front of Manchester United would be disrespectful. "I have enough confidence in him that he will try to win the game. "I think that is one of the strong points I respect in him."

  At one stage it looked as if Wenger's men were on course for the title, only for their challenge to fall apart over the past two months. While the Arsenal manager accepted the championship was now United's to lose, he maintained his team had given them a run for their money this year.

  "Chelsea have a disadvantage because it depends on the result of Manchester United," said Wenger. "I think Manchester United will win the title and they will be worthy winners. "They have played an attractive game as well going forward."

  Wenger, though, maintained: "It was very close. It was not the gap there was last season. "If we won at Man United, which we could have done, we would be champions. "You cannot say just these two have been good and the rest are rubbish. "It was very tight between the three teams."

   

   

   

   

   

  Everyone is putting pressure on Alan Curbishley as tho West Ham going to Man United is a given that they sure win kind...

   

• sand king

  3 May 08, 15:54

  haha, then i hope west ham falls under that preasure.

• 4getmenot

  3 May 08, 16:16

  hope we go all out and win and pile more pressure on the chelskis..

• jonchao72

  3 May 08, 17:33

  wah i think it'll be ronnie and tevez up front (is tevez fit?)

  then park would cover ronnie's usual position and nani/giggs on the other wing

• gunner77

  3 May 08, 19:25

  i gt a feeling man utd will not clear the handicap

   

• I-like-flings(m)

  3 May 08, 19:53

  anyone using TVU player?? which channel got this match?

• gunner77

  3 May 08, 19:54

  use sopcast la

• Y_Shun

  3 May 08, 19:54

  ronaldo scored in 3min

• I-like-flings(m)

  3 May 08, 19:58

  Originally posted by gunner77:

  use sopcast la

  
  need to install things right??

• jonchao72

  3 May 08, 19:59

  ronnie for hat-trick!

• jonchao72

  3 May 08, 20:00

  Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):

  
  need to install things right??

  yup

  then go to http://www3.myp2p.eu/competition.php?competitionid=&part=sports&discipline=football

  for the link, after u installed sopcast

• I-like-flings(m)

  3 May 08, 20:01

  where to find the programme to install in the first place hahahahahahaha... TVU cannot ar??

• gunner77

  3 May 08, 20:02

  Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):

  
  need to install things right??

  
  just install the software can liao mah

  TVU oso need to install wat

• jonchao72

  3 May 08, 20:10

  Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):

  where to find the programme to install in the first place hahahahahahaha... TVU cannot ar??

  http://www3.myp2p.eu/ got...

• gunner77

  3 May 08, 20:12

  ronaldo score 2nd goal liao

• thoreldan

  3 May 08, 20:12

  ronaldo simply too good