Manchester United’s manager confirms Rio Ferdinand’s and Rafael da Silva’s absence – English Premier League
After a tough two goals to one win over West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns stadium, Sir Alex Ferguson has come out and confirmed that his team will be without some of their first team defenders for quite some time after their
injury troubles emerged in their first away fixture of the 2011-2012 Premier League season. Manchester United started their match against West Bromwich Albion strongly before http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 capitalized on some weak closing down at the edge of the Baggies penalty
area as he rifled in a shot past http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ben-Foster-c7445.
However United were let down at the other end before the half time break by their young goalkeeper http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-de-Gea-c10463. The Spanish goalkeeper failed to react in time to save Shane Long’s drive that levelled the score line at the Hawthorns
stadium. In the second half, United were forced into two substitutions as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rio-Ferdinand-c31173 became an injury casualty
as well. The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Phil-Jones-c29903 in the end.
Ashley Young’s heroics were required to give United the lead in the last ten minutes of the match which eventually ended in the Red Devils’ favour. Already down to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Bare-c7300 bones at the back, Ferguson will be fretting on the fitness
levels of his remaining defensive options but it seems as if United will be able to put out a youthful looking back four for their next league match at Old Trafford against Tottenham Hotspur. Tottenham will indeed look to exploit the home team’s back four
at the Theatre of Dreams but Ferguson will be wary of Harry Redknapp’s tactics.
Ferguson himself confirmed that some of his first team starts will miss his team’s upcoming matches in his post match remarks. The Scotsman "We've had a rough time with injuries. Young Rafa has done his shoulder in training in
Friday and will be out for 10 weeks, he's probably going to have an operation. Rio will be out for six weeks. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vida-c40888 will have checks tomorrow, we don't know if it's just a nerve or something, but he could be out for a couple of weeks."
Rio Ferdinand’s hamstring injury means drastic consequences for the English national team as well as he will miss their upcoming European Championship qualifiers against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wales-c3041. In the context of the English Premier
League, the former Leeds United player will also miss Manchester United’s matches against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 on the 18th of September, 2011.
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