Manchester United v Bolton Wanderers | KO 15:00 | Setanta Sports 1

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Manchester United v Bolton Wanderers
Old Trafford
Kick-off: 15.00 GMT
Referee: Peter Walton
TV: Setanta Sports 1

Team News

Manchester United - Sir Alex Ferguson will take a check on a trio of minor knocks before finalising his line-up.

Chris Smalling and Phil Jones have taken time to get over problems they sustained in a collision during last Sunday's FA Cup win over Manchester City, while Anderson took a blow in training this week.

Ferguson must also decide whether Paul Scholes is fit enough to take a starting berth after his shock retirement U-turn last weekend.

Man Utd (from): De Gea, Lindegaard, Amos, Rafael, Ferdinand, Evra, Jones, Smalling, Fryers, Cole, Carrick, Valencia, Park, Scholes, Anderson, Nani, Giggs, Rooney, Welbeck, Berbatov, Hernandez, Diouf, Keane.

Bolton - Bolton manager Owen Coyle is ready to play Gary Cahill after his proposed move to Chelsea was not completed in time.

Zat Knight will be on the bench as Cahill returns to the side and partners David Wheater in central defence.

Coyle will make a late check on goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen, who is nearing full fitness after a thigh strain.

Bolton (from): Jaaskelainen, Bogdan, Wheater, Cahill, Boyata, Knight, Eagles, Robinson, Muamba, Petrov, K Davies, Klasnic, Tuncay, M Davies, Pratley, Ngog, Blake, Reo-Coker, Steinsson, Ricketts, Riley, O'Halloran, Lynch.

Possible Teams

adox

I'm expecting De Gea to start today. It's a bit of wait and see with the defence.

Scholes surprisingly may get a start, Fergies thinking being get control of the game early, dominate possession and hopefully notch up a couple of first half goals.

Surely Utd won't slip up again at home. I'm optimistically going for a 4-0 win to Utd. Scholes to score a 25 yarder.

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I'd look this up, but access is fairly limited in work.

What was the last goal Scholes scored?

Blatter

Des wrote: »

I'd look this up, but access is fairly limited in work.

What was the last goal Scholes scored?

Last season, Fulham away in the league well over 12 months ago.

Blatter

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de Gea

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Rafael

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Ferdinand----Evans

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Evra
Valencia

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Carrick

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Anderson

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Nani

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Rooney

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Welbeck

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If Smalling is fit, I'd expect him to play ahead of Ferdinand.
If Anderson is injured, any of Giggs, Scholes or Jones to play.

Cantona's Collars

Hope for a big win today,don't want us to take a 2 goal lead then sit back.Look what happened against City in the cup-cruising at 3 nil then nearly threw it away.
Goal difference could be a factor this season so I hope United make up some ground today.

NinjaK

Anything is possible with this United team so it should be a good match. Come on Utd!!

carlcon

Despite a general sense of pessimism towards the club, I can see a 4-0/5-0 today.

Expecting Nani and Valencia to tear into Bolton's defense.

Jax Teller

Hope De Gea plays and Rafael at Rb .

Just hope we win so i can give my mate who supports Bolton stick

kryogen

As always Ill take a sloppy 1 goal win right now, dunno how anyone can be confident of 4-0 wins atm.

If Rio Smalling Ando are all out then this one is gonna be tough.

steps_3314

kryogen wrote: »

As always Ill take a sloppy 1 goal win right now, dunno how anyone can be confident of 4-0 wins atm.

If Rio Smalling Ando are all out then this one is gonna be tough.

4 nil at least

kryogen

steps_3314 wrote: »

4 nil at least

Hope you back United -4 so

steps_3314

kryogen wrote: »

Hope you back United -4 so

Might do if the odds r decent.

But honestly cant see why Utd cannot turn Bolton over today easily. They will have learnt from mistakes against Blackburn and played well last week going forward. Defence just needs to tighten up again like 4 or 5 matches ago.

kryogen

steps_3314 wrote: »

Might do if the odds r decent.

But honestly cant see why Utd cannot turn Bolton over today easily. They will have learnt from mistakes against Blackburn and played well last week going forward. Defence just needs to tighten up again like 4 or 5 matches ago.

And if the defence is going to be weakened still it doesnt look good does it

odds are 13/5 with pp for -3 im sure if you ask them they will give you a price on -4.

If we start the game with Scholes and Carrick in the middle thats not a whole lot of mobility is it? and if Ando is out who else is going to start int he middle? Giggs? again mobility isnt very good. Park? Jones? now Jones wouldnt be the worst, but he really needs a break and if the defenders rumoured to be out are out he will be playing centre half regardless

homerjay2005

Blatter wrote: »

Last season, Fulham away in the league well over 12 months ago.

was his 150th goal i think also.

i expect a big win today to get our league back on track, hopefully a 4-0 win with rooney getting 2, one for nani and one for hernandez.

think de gea will be in goals and hopefully those minor knocks have cleared up.

kryogen

Hopefully the knocks are not serious and we can play a good strong team.

If we can play a good strong team

Raf

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Smalling

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Evan

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Evra
Val

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Carrick

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Ando

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Nani

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Rooney---Welbeck

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then Id be confident of a good win

if we have to mix and match due to injuries then im not so confident

Even if Scholes starts ahead of Ando thats ok to me, we should have plenty of possession with that team so Scholes should get time to spray it around

The killer instinct has been missing this season is my biggest worry

Jax Teller

#MUFC Lindegaard, Evra, Rafael, Ferdinand, Evans, Scholes, Valencia, Nani, Carrick, Rooney, Welbeck”


#BWFC Bogdan - Steinsson, Wheater, Knight, Ricketts - Eagles, M.Davies, Muamba, Reo-Coker, Petrov - N'Gog”

Vertigo100

Coletrickle88 wrote: »

#MUFC Lindegaard, Evra, Rafael, Ferdinand, Evans, Scholes, Valencia, Nani, Carrick, Rooney, Welbeck”


#BWFC Bogdan - Steinsson, Wheater, Knight, Ricketts - Eagles, M.Davies, Muamba, Reo-Coker, Petrov - N'Gog”

Do you get the line ups from twitter? If so from who?

Mr.Crinklewood

My UPC planner is telling me this is in live in Setanta ( NB not Setanta 1 ). Might be a mistake, might save me a trip to the pub.

Mmmm my bad. Reckon I was reading the wrong page.

Jax Teller

Vertigo100 wrote: »

Do you get the line ups from twitter? If so from who?

Couple of Jornos

Ian Irvine
Journo Rich

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#MUFC bench: De Gea, Giggs, Fabio, Pogba, Ji-Sung, Berbatov, Hernandez

RandolphEsq

Scholes better not start today. That is embarrassing if he does. He was awful against Man City. Whilst he may have ran around and looked to get on the ball, that is grand when the team is dominating possession, but it was when City had possession that Scholes just could not handle the pace of the game at all.

EDIT: FFS

Liam O

RandolphEsq wrote: »

Scholes better not start today. That is embarrassing if he does. He was awful against Man City. Whilst he may have ran around and looked to get on the ball, that is grand when the team is dominating possession, but it was when City had possession that Scholes just could not handle the pace of the game at all.

and we all know the extreme pace Bolton play at...oh wait.

Vertigo100

Hope to see the pog get a bit of a run today.

Paul Tergat

Vertigo100 wrote: »

Do you get the line ups from twitter? If so from who?

manutdreserves is good for it

Nalz

Carricks performance will be interesting today with Scholes starting along side him, at home to at bottom of the table club.

Could be worth a pop for first goalscorer or anytime scorer

3-0 United for me

OctavarIan

Woohoo, something resembling a classic Utd formation. Expecting murder on the wings.

Professional Griefer

I like that team, I really like it. Still not too pushed on having Scholes there.
Really fancy us to get a few goals here.

Raskolnikov

Anderson not even on the bench? I think he needs to get out of United, doesn't look like Fergie rates him at all.

Jesus Shaves

Considering Bolton have just sold their best defender anything other than 4 or 5 - 0 is not good enough

dahat

Raskolnikov wrote: »

Anderson not even on the bench? I think he needs to get out of United, doesn't look like Fergie rates him at all.

Injured apparently.........

IvySlayer

Lets go team!!!

Expecting Welbeck to bang in a few. Scholes relishes these matches, we brought him back for this reason alone.

Red Crow

Injured?

Turtyturd

Scholes starting in midfield...dire situation there.

DOC09UNAM

Got my supervisor to throw on the match! Cmon united!

QikBax

Turtyturd wrote: »

Scholes starting in midfield...dire situation there.

I don't think we need to worry too much against Bolton at home

Nalz

Turtyturd wrote: »

Scholes starting in midfield...dire situation there.

:pac:

Fuhrer

Turtyturd wrote: »

Scholes starting in midfield...dire situation there.

Better then having Carroll start up front.

ROCKMAN

jamc wrote: »

I don't think we need to worry too much against Bolton at home

think we thought the same before the Blackburn game....

Fuhrer

Fuhrer wrote: »

Better then having Carroll start up front.

Obsessed

Mr.Crinklewood

rarnes1 wrote: »

Obsessed

He meant Roy of course;)

DOC09UNAM

rarnes1 wrote: »

Fuhrer wrote: »

Better then having Carroll start up front.

Obsessed

Turtyturd has probably posted in more united threads than liverpool this season, if anyone is obsessed, it's that chap.

Always something negative aswell he chimes in with.

sofireland

Anyone got any decent sopcast streams?

MagicMarker

I do actually like that team, hopefully Pogba will feature.

Mr.Crinklewood

sofireland wrote: »

Anyone got any decent sopcast streams?

Unsure of what match this is..

124140 ( Its the United match )

More here:- http://www.wiziwig.tv/index.php?part=sports

Samba

Just wanted to say, break a leg Kevin Davies. in a theatrical sense of course :pac:

Nailz

Any linkage for this lads?

MagicMarker

Fantastic tackle from Carrick.

Professional Griefer

That was some pass!

Will I Amnt

Take a bow young Carrick.What a pass.

DOC09UNAM

Great ball from carrick there, I think it was him anyway, small tv :pac: