Sunderland vs Man Utd – Match Preview

By: Wayne Farry | April 11th, 2009

Today at 3pm GMT we play Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. Sunderland are going through a torrid run of form that makes our form resemble our unbeaten run a few months back. This isn’t going to be a long one. I’m just up and haven’t had my coffee yet so I’m not fully coherent. But we need to win this match, no doubts.

You may have seen this interview with Sir Alex, in which he speaks about his desire to win trophies at United, and you just really hope the players would have that belief.

This match isn’t going to be an easy one, Sunderland are deep in the shit and will be working their arses off to get their first win in a while.

Some have called for us to play a weakened team here, so we’re full strength for Porto on Wednesday. If you ask me that’s a load of crap. We need to play our full strength team at every single possible occasion until the season’s end.

Some injury news, Rio is still out. Evans could, only possibly face his former club, but it apparently looks more likely that John O’Shea will fill in. Here’s the team squad for the trip, make of it what you will:

Van der Sar, Foster, Kuszczak
O’Shea, Neville, Vidic, Evans, Evra, Eckersley
Ronaldo, Nani, Fletcher, Gibson, Carrick, Scholes, Giggs, Park
Rooney, Tevez, Welbeck, Macheda, Berba

Anyway, enjoy the match. And leave your comments as the match progresses and your rants or whatever.

There was a minute’s silence at Anfield today ahead of the Liverpool – Blackburn game to remember the victims of the Hillsborough tragedy as the 20th anniversary approaches. It happened on April 15, 1989 and although I was only very young at the time, things that I have read and watched since have enlightened towards the events. What happened that day was absolutely tragic and puts into perspective the triviality of football. 20 years on, I hope that justice is finally found for these people. RIP.

And all title stuff aside, fair play to Liverpool for putting on a good show for their fans on a day such as this. They played great and won 4-0.