{"id":319530,"date":"2011-03-18T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/18\/manchester-united-manager-sir-alex-ferguson-considering-playing-wayne-rooney-in-his-favoured-role-up-front-against-bolton\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T10:50:00","slug":"manchester-united-manager-sir-alex-ferguson-considering-playing-wayne-rooney-in-his-favoured-role-up-front-against-bolton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/manchester-united-manager-sir-alex-ferguson-considering-playing-wayne-rooney-in-his-favoured-role-up-front-against-bolton\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson considering playing Wayne Rooney in his favoured role up front against Bolton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>18 Mar 2011 10:50:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"56.8771220695\">\n<div readability=\"16.32\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL,Wayne Rooney,Manchester United vs Manchester City(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/04f86249123815_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>EPL,Wayne Rooney,Manchester United vs Manchester City(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"17.8348170129\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/manchester-united\">Manchester United<\/a> manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/scotland\/8123\/sir-alex-ferguson\">Sir Alex Ferguson<\/a> has conceded that he could play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/1681\/wayne-rooney\">Wayne Rooney<\/a> in his favoured role as a striker against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/100\/bolton-wanderers\">Bolton Wanderers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot had preferred to hand the former Everton marksman a slightly withdrawn role behind Javier Hernandez, which worked to great success against Marseille.<\/p>\n<p>But now the manager believes that with the way the Trotters line-up, it may be beneficial to allow the England international to play in a more advanced role in the attacking third of the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We only started playing Wayne deeper because of the injury situation before the game against Arsenal last Saturday,&#8221; Ferguson told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were forced into trying to organise a team that gave us a chance of going through. In that particular game it worked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Bolton are a completely different team and I may change it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>United play host to Bolton at Old Trafford on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/04f86249123815_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/18\/2400195\/manchester-united-manager-sir-alex-ferguson-considering\" title=\"Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson considering playing Wayne Rooney in his favoured role up front against Bolton\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson considering playing Wayne Rooney in his favoured role up front against Bolton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 18 Mar 2011 10:50:00 EPL,Wayne Rooney,Manchester United vs Manchester City(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has conceded that he could play Wayne Rooney in his favoured role as a striker against Bolton Wanderers . The Scot had preferred to hand the former Everton marksman a slightly withdrawn role behind Javier Hernandez, which worked to great success against Marseille. But now the manager believes that with the way the Trotters line-up, it may be beneficial to allow the England international to play in a more advanced role in the attacking third of the pitch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson considering playing Wayne Rooney in his favoured role up front against Bolton - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/manchester-united-manager-sir-alex-ferguson-considering-playing-wayne-rooney-in-his-favoured-role-up-front-against-bolton\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson considering playing Wayne Rooney in his favoured role up front against Bolton - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Adithya Ananth 18 Mar 2011 10:50:00 EPL,Wayne Rooney,Manchester United vs Manchester City(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has conceded that he could play Wayne Rooney in his favoured role as a striker against Bolton Wanderers . 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