On paper it could, but Milan's biggest weakness over recent years has been their lack of energy/industry. People point it down to an ageing side, which, in ways, is a correct assessment, but, it's also down the team changing for the worst with its mentality and balance. Gattuso has aged, Seedorf has aged, Ronaldinho has come in and stars like Shevchenko and Kaka have gone without replacement. Look around Europe and you'll see that all top sides defend from the front, often making exception for one player not to; for Barcelona, their 'laziest' player is probably Messi, although he still worked quite hard, but when Ibra came in, they lacked balance due to Ibra's lethargic play. At United, it's often Berbatov who is the laziest, but, in the big games he doesn't usually play, as Fergie understands the need to defend from the front and solidify the balance.



As good as that front line is offensively, neither player is particularly hard working, whilst you may also see Ronaldinho and Pirlo in there - both of whom aren't that industrious either. It's all good on paper, whilst the need for work rate isn't as high in Italy, but in the bigger games in Europe and the bigger games in the league, I think their midfield will be overran by harder working sides.

Aye, 100% correct. Ibrahimovic and Robinho have plenty of work in them unless it involves team work or chasing the ball back.

2-1 I think. Great atmosphere, can't wait.

Can't see Rangers giving Scum a decent game at all.

Ten Changes to the side from the Everton game for United

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What a lovely story. I love this one. Bahrian hosted a friendly international against Togo and won 3-0. They were concerned about the quality and fitness of the opposition apparently and Togo confirmed they had not sent their team to Bahrain for the game.



Question is, why only 3-0 if it does turn out to be a scam. I guess they've scammed the Bahrainians with an invitation and split the appearance fees they would no doubt have got for being the away side in a friendly international. It's just bizarre no one in Togo picked up on it, African media are usually big on football stories and you'd think they would have noticed this.

Rangers 3-2.



Rangers not sold their 3700 allocation.

Their playing the equivalent of a league 2 side what did you expect?

Thats Sunday isn't it?

Spursssssss

2028: Bad news for Manchester United. Wayne Rooney has turned his ankle, and is limping badly.

Blown out of proportion but did you expect anything else.

Marin to finally step up as the dog's nuts? Won't surprise me, Werder seems to be the place for attacking midfielders.

This game is crying out for more Width and Michael Owen up top, Valencia has been the most dangerous player so far so get more pace on the other flank

Scratch that, they have just snapped Valencia and it looks to be a bad one. A very bad one and they won't show a replay

Looks like Valencia has badly broke his leg. Hope it isn't as bad as it looked.

I didnt see it and Im glad by the sounds of it!

It didn't look all that bad on my first viewing. Just his leg was going forward and foot was at an awful angle after the challenge. Hope he get's back soon.

I rewound it, Sky+ really comes into it's own at times like this, and it's his ankle. As he lands on his bum his legs are in the air and his foot should definitely not be at the angle it was. Just hope it's a simple break and not doubled up with ligament damage





I feel for the Rangers player, his face said it all for me.

Have seen the Valencia incident again. Broadfoot slides in from the side and knocks the ball out of play. Unfortunately Valencia's trailing leg gets trapped under the body of Broadfoot. The pressure of that seems to have broke the leg just above the ankle.

What an arrogant fool Ferguson is. He makes 10 changes and his 'new breed' cannot break down a defense lead by a 40 year old.



United were terrible, 10 changes is the root cause of that and also the fact that none of the changes made the team better. Is the Champions League now not as important as the Premier League or was he just showing a bit of distain for Rangers and the Scottish leagues?



Resting players is not an answer as it's so soon in the season that not even the 35/36 year olds in the United team would be needing a rest.

Or maybe he was ed off with the lot who played at the weekend throwing away a 2 goal lead in injury time?

Possibly, but the likes of Berbatov and Scholes were largely excellent against Everton. It's really unprofessional from Ferguson, you get the easy games won to create dead rubbers later on when he can mess about, you don't approach early games as if they are dead rubbers. All it would take now is an away defeat to Valencia and they will be putting themselves under pressure, making the third game a must win in a group that should have been one of the easiest ever to qualify from.

I'm not sure that it the case.



In 1999, Fergie practically had 2 separate squads for the league and for the CL and other cups. He realises that there are a lot of games to be played in a season and to expect the same players week in week out to play is ludicrous.



He tries to get a 2nd team playing together so that there is the option to rest players.



Why have a large squad if you're not going to keep them fit with game time.