How the arrival of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wesley-Sneijder-c36799 will affect the Manchester United line-up (Part 1)
Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 were the favourites to win the English Premier League and they backed their
tag of being favourites after starting the season with a bang.
Chelsea made a phenomenal start to the 2010-2011 season but with injuries falling through, they could not really keep up with the pace of the league. Later, they dropped a lot of important points to allow Manchester United to take the top spot in the points
table.
On the other hand, Manchester United did not really have a very fine start to the Premier League. They won their first fixture but a few draws kept them away from the number one spot. They did not lose a single game at home throughout the season but their
away form was not what was required to win the league.
Sir Alex Ferguson then managed to put his brain to work and even though he did not have a team which looked to be the favourites to win the league, he still managed to keep the results and won at the end of the season. Sir Alex Ferguson had a blend of young
players and experience players. He took good advantage of the older players to add experience on to the pitch.
Manchester United did not really have a fixed first team and Ferguson kept on rotating the players in order to give the first team experience to everyone. The biggest example of rotation can be taken from the UEFA Champions League final where Dimitar Berbatov
and Luis http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nani-c27299 were both benched despite giving outstanding statistics throughout the season.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604, during the UEFA Champions League
final at Wembley.
The Scottish manager definitely had favourites and he did play them relatively more than all the other players.
While the Dutch goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar stood guard between the two posts, Tomasz Kuszack stayed on the bench to replace him whenever required.
Sir Alex Ferguson rarely compromised about the defence. Rio Ferdinand and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chris-c9006 Smalling often replaced
him in the centre back role.
The young Brazilian twins Rafael and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Patrice-Evra-c29231, but Fabio replaced him whenever it was necessary.
With http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rio-Ferdinand-c31173, Nemanja Vidic, Chris Smalling and Patrice Evra being regular first team players; Rafael, Fabio, John O’Shea and Johnny Evans got the first team opportunities whenever it was required.
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