[Archived] Manchester United v Blackburn Rovers

[RIML]

United have the best home record in the league, they've beat Newcastle, West Ham, Liverpool, Tottenham, Wolves and Wigan, drew with West Brom. But to be fair I would expect Rovers to have a similar record against them teams at home. Make us proud Rovers, COYB!

[Majiball]

BBC has Gamst down as available?????

I hope he is.

[G Somerset Rover]

Maybe Samba's done a Mourinho and Gamst is actually gonna play..

[Dan]

Had a few bets, 2-1(to Rovers) and 2-2 are 28/1. If we can go at them then we stand a chance if getting something. I just hope we don't concede early. I've been very impressed with The way Sam has had us playing lately, so I hope he continues to impress :-)

I've heard MGP is playing? He is full of confidence at the moment and I can see him scoring if he plays.

[Dunnfc]

Rovers: Robinson, Salgado, Samba, Nelsen, Chimbonda, Emerton, Jones, Goulon, Dunn, Dioufy, Roberts.

Subs: Bunn, Givet, Hanley, Hoilett, Lingazi, Morris, Benjani

[hollowsr]

Manchester United v Blackburn line-ups:

Man Utd: Van der Sar, Rafael Da Silva, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Nani, Carrick, Anderson, Park, Berbatov, Rooney.

Subs: Kuszczak, Giggs, Hernandez, O'Shea, Evans, Fletcher, Obertan.

Blackburn: Robinson, Salgado, Samba, Nelsen, Chimbonda, Jones, Emerton, Dunn, Goulon, El-Hadji Diouf, Roberts.

Subs: Bunn, Givet, Linganzi, Mwaruwari, Hoilett, Hanley, Morris.

So no Gamst then, Goulon gets first start, no Kalinic either, quite a young bench really!

[AspRover]

Presumably -

Robinson

Salgado Samba Nelsen Chimbonda

Jones Goulon

Emerton Dunn Diouf

Roberts

[budha]

Official site has N'Zonzi, not Benjani on the bench..

[Tom]

Would have liked hoilett to start but good to see linganzi back on the bench, has he been injured or out of favour?

[tony gale's mic]

Interesting lineup...wonder if Niko is injured or dropped?

Goulon starting, I guess he's got nothing to lose. If he does well then great, if he doesn't then I guess it's been a tough test?

[hollowsr]

Official site has N'Zonzi, not Benjani on the bench..

Benjani was definitely on there before

[joey_big_nose]

Very surprised Hoilettt has been dropped. Hopefully Dunn can show a bit of quality and Goulon gives everyone a lift.

[Balwer]

Very surprised Hoilettt has been dropped. Hopefully Dunn can show a bit of quality and Goulon gives everyone a lift.

I don't think it's that surprising, he's shown a bit in attack but we are away to one of the top 2 teams so we need our midfielders to be able to defend well too. Emerton is far more assured in that regard.

Solid team overall, disappointing Gamst wasn't fit, we will need to rely more on Dunn to create something now. Best of luck to young Goulon, great place to get your first start.

[Daremz]

Why on earth is Sam always playing Chimbonda. He's a natural disaster.

[MarkBRFC71]

It's a bit of a negative line-up IMO. We're highly unlikely to get anything by trying to defend, so why did we not go out and give it a go and surprise Utd like we did in the game when Pedersen scored twice? We've basically gone exactly as predicted and Fergie will have prepared his team for exactly the way we've lined up.

Oh well, can only see a routine and comfortable home win.

1-0 already. Game over.

[RibbleValleyRover]

1-0 United

Great start

[Amo]

So drop Hoilett when he's finding his feet in the first-team, but keep the knackered Dunn? Um, okay. Hope it pays off.

[Hughesy]

1 min - 1-0 united....united played on after robbo was caught by Anderson!!

[Daremz]

Great start boys.

[SamTheShrew]

anyone would play on.

pathetic defending

[DE.]

[Mr. E]

that was the most pathetic goal I've ever seen conceded.

[darwenblueswearehere]

Cheating Mancs!!!

[SamTheShrew]

It's not cheating at all.

United played on which was within their right, we didn't.

who's fault is it that we are 1-0 already?

Ours and only ours

[Mr. E]

and Chimbonda can't mark possibly the only player in the Premiership that's slower than Heskey.