Newcastle United vs Manchester United match banter.
Posted on January 4th, 2012 | 132 Comments |
This match will be all the more difficult for the Mags too as Manchester United will be allowed to field their twelfth man for this match. I am of course referring to referee Howard Webb, who will be on penalty awarding, sending off and extra, extra time awarding duties for the Red Devils this afternoon. The Manchester club will also come into this game as wounded animals though, having gone down to a shock 2-3 home defeat to Premiership bottom feeders, Blackburn Rovers.
If you would care to peruse some in depth background to the game, I would exhort you to check out UTD111’s excellent and extensive match preview for the game, which really is a jolly good read! May we also remind you that we will also be posting our usual match report, along with match highlights and post match interviews from the game when they become available.
Prediction competition.
May we also remind you that our second Prediction competition of this seasosn is now all ready to go. As in the last one, the first prize will be £100 olde English pounds, with a second prize of £50 and a third of £25. The competition is open to all registered members of the site, but if you aren’t registered, it is a VERY simple process which only takes a minute a or so to complete, so why not have a go? The winners of the last competiton were announced on this site just the other day, with no less than three NUFC bloggers sharing the top spot of a very tight competition with 137 points each. For more details, please check out the compatition pages themselves. There’s still well over a week before the first predictions have to be in, but if you simply can’t control yourself, you can start making your first predictions now if you want to!
Before I sign off I will give the usual reminders that I will also be posting the official teamsheets when they are available, and lastly, this game is being televised on Sky Sports in the UK, but if you have any good links to the game for those who might be overseas, then please feel free to post them in the comments below.
Howay the lads!
Teams
Newcastle United (4-4-2): Tim Krul (G), Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini (C), Davide Santon, Ryan Taylor, Cheick Tiote, Yohan Cabaye, Jonas Gutierrez, Shola Ameobi, Demba Ba.
Subs: Steve Harper (G), James Perch, Haris Vuckic, Gabriel Obertan, Hatem Ben Arfa, Sammy Ameobi, Leon Best.
Manchester United (4-4-2): Anders Lindegaard; Antonio Valencia, Phil Jones, Rio Ferdinand, Patrice Evra (c); Nani, Michael Carrick, Ryan Giggs, Park Ji-Sung; Dimitar Berbatov, Wayne Rooney
Subs: David De Gea, Rafael Da Silva, Jess Lingard, Anderson, Paul Pogba, Danny Welbeck, Javier Hernandez.
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