Match Preview: Manchester City v United 06/08/2011
 The Red Devils are looking to avenge last season's defeat to The Blues at Wembley Stadium... Match Preview - Manchester City v Manchester United Competition: FA Community Shield Kick-Off & Date: 2:30pm, Sunday, 7th August 2011 Venue: Wembley Stadium, London (Neutral) Live TV Coverage: Sky Sports 1 (HD), 2:15pm - 5pm Referee: Phil Dowd (Staffordshire, England) Assistant Referees: Simon Long & Andrew Garratt Fourth Official: Kevin Friend Form: Manchester City haven't endured as good a pre-season as Manchester United have, with Roberto Mancini's mercenaries following The Red Devils over to the United States. However, tours count for precious little unless they gave a positive bearing on the new season. City beat Club America, Vancouver Whitecaps, Airtricity League Of Ireland XI and Inter Milan, but drew with LA Galaxy which turned Mancini against striker Mario Balotelli. United completed their highly successful US Tour with a brilliant 2-1 win over FC Barcelona, after annihilating New England Revolution, Seattle Sounders, Chicago Fire and the MLS All-Stars on front of almost 300,000 supporters altogether. The Red Devils latterly competed in Monaco, Amsterdam and Manchester for a Charity match, Edwin Van Der Sar's Testimonial and Paul Scholes' Testimonial respectively within the past week. The Injury Front: City are without sulking striker Carlos Tevez, who is scheming a move away from the Etihad Stadium, while defender Pablo Zabaleta has been handed an extended holiday. The 'noisy neighbours' have again spent big this summer, and it's unlikely that Sergio Aguero will be the last arrival at the club this transfer window. However, the Argentine is excepted to start Sunday's Community Shield on the bench, following sickness. United will have Javier Hernandez looking on from the crowd, as the Mexican hitman is set to be rested for at least a fortnight after his concussion scare following a head injury received in training. Darren Fletcher and Michael Carrick are both out, while doubts remain over the fitness of Antonio Valencia. But it's likely that Rafael will feature after recovering speedily from a knock he picked up in the friendly victory over Barcelona in Washington. Squad: De Gea, Kuszczak, Lindegaard, Amos, Evra, Jones, Ferdinand, Smalling, Vidic, Fabio, Rafael, Evans, Anderson, Giggs, Park, Nani, Young, Fletcher, Valencia, Gibson, Cleverley, Owen, Berbatov, Rooney, Welbeck, Macheda, Diouf.  The Gaffer: Roberto Mancini is quite a fiery character, and the former Italian striker doesn't look suited to management either. However, City fans are happy for the time being as he continues to spend, spend, spend. Little does he have to show for it though... The FA Cup !  Most-Feared: Sergio Aguero has been drafted in as a replacement for want-away captain Carlos Tevez. The 23-year-old Argentinian striker has a fantastic goalscoring record for previous club Atletico Madrid, and was former teammates with new United goalie David De Gea...  The Red: Phil Dowd is probably one of the worst picks The Football Association could have made for this weekend's Community Shield at Wembley. He is likely to get most of the stick from United fans, as City failed to sell their full allotment as we did nearly a month ago ! United Latest's Prediction: Manchester City 0-2 United - Wayne Rooney and Ashley Young ? CommentsRedrus 07/08/2011 12:12am
Scholes......, in the squad.....????? diegame 07/08/2011 12:22am
Scholes in the squad...man Utd 3-city 1 tonyb 07/08/2011 12:55am
fletcher is out but listed, have we signed another? Godiva 07/08/2011 7:32am
Why isn't snejider on the way to MUTO 07/08/2011 8:27am
Super, Gibson instead of Pogba....... How lame is that! Manc Red 07/08/2011 9:20am
Scholes? We wish haha. Neil34 07/08/2011 11:22am
2-0 to the real champs Scholes 07/08/2011 11:29am
ya Scholes will score a hatrick today cant wait very true 07/08/2011 1:11pm
i think de rossi would be great in the epl and roma need funds to buy nilmar and other and he earns 3million per season at roma so we could make his wages 4-5 million a season and offer 25-30million. GGMU l33bo 07/08/2011 3:28pm
why not jus pay 25m for nasri n he wudnt cost as much in wages as sneijder. then either de Rossi or diarra we need a bit of steel in midfield guys very true 07/08/2011 3:34pm
WHAT'S HAPPENING !!! de gea is a great keeper just give him time Mikeyy 07/08/2011 3:35pm
Herd de gea is playin a blinder-_- Bren 07/08/2011 3:44pm
Hey where's our central midfielders gone oh yea there shite.......can anyone tell me where Carrick is gone he was out there at the start of the match....... This is a joke we can't go into a new season with this midfield Mikeyy 07/08/2011 4:00pm
Comintaters jus sed city spendin 500 mil n are not a shade on utd wen playin city scum cmonn utd!!! Mikeyy 07/08/2011 4:36pm
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!! l33bo 07/08/2011 4:40pm
phil jones awesome game. wellbeck quality smalling. n who on here said that ashley young was a mistake ha ha ha he's quality he will make us stronger Karthik 07/08/2011 5:11pm
Typical Man U ! Dis is a damn bloody squad ! Tom is ..............the new GINGER PRINCE !! But Sneijder wil b the icing in the cake ! Itz a sure world beater wid Wes !!! Neil34 07/08/2011 7:09pm
Man shitty will never have the team spirit of the champs , think they can buy the title? Not with a bunch of money grabbers who don't even like each other Neil34 07/08/2011 7:15pm
We have to strengthen our central midfield though , schweinsteiger would be perfect for us if we can't get schneider Comments are closed. |  
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