vs Venue - Old Trafford Competition - Premier League Date - 2nd March 2013 Time - 3.00pm Referee - Neil Swarbrick Odds - Manchester United 2/7, Draw 9/2, Norwich City 9/1 Last meeting between the sides - Norwich City 1 Manchester United 0, 17th November 2012 [video]http://www.metatube.com/en/videos/160156/Norwich-City-Vs-Manchester-United-1-0-All-Goals-Highlights-17-11-2012/[/video] Line-ups Man Utd: De Gea, Smalling, Vidic, Evans, Evra, Valencia, Anderson, Carrick, Kagawa, Rooney, van Persie. Subs: Lindegaard, Da Silva, Hernandez, Nani, Young, Welbeck, Cleverley. Norwich: Bunn, Martin, Bassong, Turner, Garrido, Snodgrass, Johnson, Howson, Pilkington, Hoolahan, Holt. Subs: Camp, Whittaker, Fox, Kamara, Elliott Bennett, Becchio, Ryan Bennett. Match Preview Sir Alex Ferguson will be without defender Phil Jones (ankle), but Robin van Persie has been passed fit after overcoming a hip injury. However, veteran midfielder Paul Scholes (knee) may recover in time to feature this weekend, while Ryan Giggs and Danny Welbeck will also be in contention. Nevertheless, Sir Alex will no doubt cast one eye over next Tuesday's momentous Champions League clash with Real Madrid and may look to rest some of his big-name stars as a result. Chris Hughton, meanwhile, should stick with a similar side to the one that conquered Everton at Carrow Road last weekend, although he may be able to welcome back Andrew Surman (knee) and Alexander Tettey (knock). The Canaries will still be without John Ruddy between the sticks, however, although the 26-year-old is expected to return this month. Elsewhere, Kei Kamara and Luciano Becchio are in contention for a starting berth up front if Hughton decides to go for a more attacking line-up with two forwards. DID YOU KNOW? • Manchester United are now undefeated in 17 games in all competitions and an impressive 15 in the Premier League. • United have taken 89 per cent of the league points available to them recently, having won five and drawn one of their last six matches. In the same period, title rivals Manchester City have taken just 61% of their potential points. • The Red Devils have also won every single one of their home league games this season bar one - a 3-2 defeat to Tottenham in late September. • Sir Alex's side are still on course for a Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League treble, having already achieved that feat once in 1999. United have also completed a league and FA Cup double on three occasions, and won a league and European double in 2008. • Wayne Rooney is 7/2 to score the first goal in the game with bet365. • Norwich City are unbeaten in their last four league games but have won just two of their last 11. • However, Chris Hughton's side will be buoyed by the knowledge that they beat Manchester United 1-0 in November's reverse fixture thanks to an Anthony Pilkington header (United's last defeat in the Premier League). • The Canaries' away form has been nothing short of dire this term - they have won just once in 13 games on the road, having drawn six and lost six. • Norwich's Kei Kamara (pictured) has already scored against Manchester United this campaign - in a pre-season friendly for Sporting Kansas City. He also scored the equaliser for the Canaries in their 2-1 win against Everton last week. • Hughton's side have three points less than Norwich did this time last season under Paul Lambert, though a win this Saturday could lift them to 10th place.
A game inevitably overshadowed by the second leg of our tie with Madrid in a few days, which is obviously the more important match to be ready for with out current lead but at this stage in the season we need to keep the pressure on and ensure we don't give City any reason to have hope. It will be interesting to see what kind of side we put out, we did play a strong side against Everton, but that was against a stronger team and on the day after City gave us a gift against Southampton. Then again Norwich are the most recent team to beat us in the league so its a tough call. 1-0, Hernandez.
Swarbs is ref! Can't see anything other than a win, no way Norwich will pull off the double against us. 3-0 or 4-1.
United XI: De Gea, Smalling, Vidic, Evans, Evra, Valencia, Anderson, Carrick, Kagawa, Rooney, Van Persie. Clearly not ****ing about then, Giggs not on the bench so he has to wait for his 1000th.
don't get why we are starting with RVP .. feel sorry for poor Chicha better if both people saying 5-0 and other big score margin .. doubt will be that big margain
