I will start off by saying that I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas, apologies that the match preview wasn't yesterday, Christmas, family and alcohol wasn't the best combination.
Today there is a full Boxing Day fixture of Premier League football and Manchester United are away to Stoke at the Britannia Stadium.
Today will be a difficult match especially with Delap's throws but the last few games he has been suffering a bit with a shoulder injury. We are now 6 points behind Chelsea and 7 behind Liverpool but with 2 games in hand, we cannot afford to drop points especially to teams like Stoke (that's what Arsenal do), no offence to Stoke though, so we should get the win.
Stoke's keeper Sorenson will return for this match after a scan showed that his fingers weren't seriously damaged.
Stoke do have a few injury problems- Kitson, Griffin, Diao and Cort are all injury doubts.
Patrice Evra will start off his four match ban today after that stupid FA ruling.
The good news is that Man United don't have any new injury worries after returning home from Japan after being crowned World Champion's.
Squads:
Stoke City: Sorensen, Shawcross, Sonko, Abdoulaye Faye, Higginbotham, Delap, Amdy Faye, Whelan, Cresswell, Pugh, Fuller, Pericard, Tonge, Soares, Simonsen, Olofinjana, Davies, Wilkinson, Griffin, Diao, Cort, Kitson.
Man United: Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Amos, Neville, Ferdinand, Vidic, O'Shea, Evans, Rafael, Ronaldo, Anderson, Giggs, Park, Carrick, Nani, Scholes, Fletcher, Gibson, Berbatov, Rooney, Tevez, Welbeck.
Today there is a full Boxing Day fixture of Premier League football and Manchester United are away to Stoke at the Britannia Stadium.
Today will be a difficult match especially with Delap's throws but the last few games he has been suffering a bit with a shoulder injury. We are now 6 points behind Chelsea and 7 behind Liverpool but with 2 games in hand, we cannot afford to drop points especially to teams like Stoke (that's what Arsenal do), no offence to Stoke though, so we should get the win.
Stoke's keeper Sorenson will return for this match after a scan showed that his fingers weren't seriously damaged.
Stoke do have a few injury problems- Kitson, Griffin, Diao and Cort are all injury doubts.
Patrice Evra will start off his four match ban today after that stupid FA ruling.
The good news is that Man United don't have any new injury worries after returning home from Japan after being crowned World Champion's.
Squads:
Stoke City: Sorensen, Shawcross, Sonko, Abdoulaye Faye, Higginbotham, Delap, Amdy Faye, Whelan, Cresswell, Pugh, Fuller, Pericard, Tonge, Soares, Simonsen, Olofinjana, Davies, Wilkinson, Griffin, Diao, Cort, Kitson.
Man United: Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Amos, Neville, Ferdinand, Vidic, O'Shea, Evans, Rafael, Ronaldo, Anderson, Giggs, Park, Carrick, Nani, Scholes, Fletcher, Gibson, Berbatov, Rooney, Tevez, Welbeck.
