You'd have to feel for him! Sir Alex looked like he would fall sick any minute as he announced to the press a list of a squad of players at the treatment table down at Carrington. Since they left for Monaco to take part in that good for nothing Super Cup, United have played two games in each of the weeks scheduled for club football.
Quite inevitably, we've had to lose players to injury, but what still puzzles me and probably the old gaffer is manner in which we've got them. United do have the kind of team that can handle a number of injuries even throughout an entire league campaign but the manner in which they have hit our stars is defeating. I mean, there are some positions that have both senior and deputy injured--and that's just one position!
An alarming total of 10 players will sit out the home Cup tie against Spurs. Interestingly, many fans are not about to give a **** about the FA Cup so they are only nterested in seeing which side will line up against West Brom in the league on Tuesday. Those are the same fans talking about winning 5 trophies at the end of the season.
So I beg to differ. Manchester United are the record winners of the Cup and so we should always be looking to defend our record in it. It's one competition where we can claim more triumphs than Liverpool. It's also relatively long(2004) since we last won it. I know we've been very unlucky in the finals we've been in since then but there is nothing wrong with continuing to have a go!
Darren Fletcher will join a defence consisting of only Vidic as a first team defender. Tevez, Ronaldo, and Berbatov will start while Carrick, Scholes and Giggs will complete a line-up that will be strong in attack but weak behind. It certainly is a good enough team to win.
If there is any motivation that the players needed to win the match, it's that Spurs will not be up for it. Redknapp has already made it clear that he will not risk any player he feels is vital as far as their League survival is concerned. I'd like to to think that it will be weaker than the team Burnley nearly humiliated on Wednesday night. Besides, the sleepy-eyed fella has had a fair share of Cup victories against us dating back to the past Millennium so why not end it already?
