Blackburn Rovers 'v' Manchester United Match Preview

Venue: Ewood Park

Date: Saturday, 4 October

Kick-off: 1730 BST

Blackburn look to continue their good form against
champions Manchester United. United have won only
one of their last eight league visits to Blackburn.

Both teams are in good form with Blackburn lying
seventh and United having won their last three
games. But United have been dealt a huge blow
as Rooney, and Scholes who is out for 10 weeks will
not play. To add to that United are already without
Hargreaves and Carrick in the heart of midfield.

Blackburn Likely Line up (4-4-2)

Brown

Simpson - Samba - Nelson - Warnock

Emerton - Olsson - Kerimoglu - Villanueva

Santa Cruz - Derbyshire

'V'

Manchester United Likely Line-up (4-4-2)

Van Der Sar

Neville - Vidic - Ferdinand(c) - Evra

Ronaldo - Fletcher - Anderson - Park

Berbatov - Tevez


Talking Tactics: Blackburn will play be a threat up front
with Matt Derbyshire and Santa Cruz so they will play
high balls as they are both 6ft. Also centre back Samba
is very tall so he will be a threat in corners.

PREDICTION: 1-3: United have too much power in their
team and should beat Blackburn but Rovers will put up
a fight. Ronaldo will cause too many problems for Warnock.
Berbatov is now off the mark, that takes a lot of pressure off
him, so now we could see him open up and go on a great scoring run.