It's Premier League match time in match week eleven at Old Trafford when Manchester United host Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday afternoon.
Wolves recorded a shock 2-1 win against Manchester City at Molineux in match week ten, only their second after beating Stoke on the opening day of the Premiership on August 14. There were many pluses for Wolves in a game that saw a brilliant performance by Matt Jarvis, who surely must have caught Fabio Capello's attention for an Engand call up. Steve Hunt made his presence felt on the other flank as Wolves rode out convincing winners.
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The come-from-behind win was made possible by a great team effort in which Mick McCarthy's squad were helped by the return to action by their skipper Doyle after serving out a three match suspension, following a red card offence against Wigan.
After a recall to the side, Edwards scored his first goal in 14 months, and had a couple of near misses, including a header that crashed against the post off one of Jarvis's innumerable crosses. Milijas, another player returning from injury against Mancini's charges fired the equaliser in the 30 minute after adebayor had put City ahead seven minutes earlier. Edwards winner came 10 minutes into the second half.
Ahead of the Manchester United game, Wolves continue to miss Craddock who could play against Arsenal next week. Apart from Kightly, Zubar and Guedioura are also on the injured list for Wolves.
Wolves are in the middle of a series of matches against the big four; the win against City followed a loss to Chelsea in match week nine. With three points in the bank from the first two, the Wanderers must feel confident ahead of Saturday's game.
Manchester United's first away win against Stoke in match week nine appears to have got them into their stride making the Rooney saga a distant memory with the Red Devils recording a back to back win against Tottenham, last week. Regardless of the contentious 84th minute goal by Nani, united were the dominant side against spurs and thoroughly deserved their win. Both Berbatov and Hernandez had missed chances that could have made the margin even worse for Tottenham.
The clean slate United kept against Spurs should cheer them up a great deal in a season in which their back line has contrived to squander the lead six times in nine matches. With Ferdinand back to match fitness, and all the forwards firing, United are bound to give Chelsea a run for their money at the top of the table,
With neither team having any new injury worries ahead of Saturday's game, they are likely to go with unchanged sides, although with Jarvis and Hunt so effective on the flanks, Sir Alex might consider a call up for O'Shea.
As ever, the Old Trafford squad will be hard to beat at home, but Wolves will take cheer from their Carling Cup performance last week when they ran the Red Devils close, and they achieved it without their top players; the final score in that match was 3-2 in United's favour.
For United, apart from Rooney, Owen, Gibson and Valencia, Nani is also likely to be sidelined with an injury sustained in the Spurs match.
In the game against Tottenham, Manchester United's first eleven comprised the following players: Van der Sar, Da Silva, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Nani, Fletcher, Carrick, Park, Hernandez, Berbatov
The following players featured as second half substitutes: Obertan, Brown, Scholes
Wolves started the Man City game with the following eleven players: Hahnemann, Foley, Stearman, Berra, Ward, Edwards, Henry, Milijas, Jarvis, Doyle, Hunt
Mancienne, Mouyokolo and Elokobi were used as second half substitutes.
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