{"id":447923,"date":"2011-06-26T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/26\/manchester-united-goalkeeper-anders-lindegaard-will-fight-for-first-team-place\/"},"modified":"2011-06-26T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T17:44:00","slug":"manchester-united-goalkeeper-anders-lindegaard-will-fight-for-first-team-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/26\/manchester-united-goalkeeper-anders-lindegaard-will-fight-for-first-team-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard will fight for first-team place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Miles Chambers<\/h3>\n<h4>26 Jun 2011 18:44:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"70.1173144876\">\n<div readability=\"15.0303030303\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anders Lindegaard of Manchester United (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/124200\/124205_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anders Lindegaard of Manchester United (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/manchester-united\">Manchester United\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/denmark\/33838\/anders-lindegaard\">Anders Lindegaard<\/a> is hoping to make a claim to be the Premier League holder\u2019s first choice goalkeeper this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Manager Sir Alex Ferguson signed the shot-stopper from Aalesund in January but the Denmark international is yet to play a league game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Manchester United are widely expected to sign Atletico Madrid\u2019s David de Gea to replace Van der Sar \u2013 who retired at the end of the last campaign \u2013 but the 27-year-old is confident he can make an impact at Old Trafford.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I am really excited to get things started. It will be an exciting season for me and for the team,&#8221; he told Norwegian newspaper\u00a0<em>Sunmorsposten<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I will fight with all I have for the goalkeeper&#8217;s position to be mine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The goal for Manchester United is to win as many titles as possible and I will do my best to contribute to this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lindegaard arrived at Old Trafford largely unknown to Premier League spectators in the last transfer window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He has made four appearances for the senior national side as well as collecting a number of youth caps in Denmark Under-19 and Under-20 games.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/26\/2549063\/manchester-united-goalkeeper-anders-lindegaard-will-fight\" title=\"Manchester United goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard will fight for first-team place\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard will fight for first-team place<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Miles Chambers 26 Jun 2011 18:44:00 Anders Lindegaard of Manchester United (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester United\u2019s Anders Lindegaard is hoping to make a claim to be the Premier League holder\u2019s first choice goalkeeper this season. Manager Sir Alex Ferguson signed the shot-stopper from Aalesund in January but the Denmark international is yet to play a league game. Manchester United are widely expected to sign Atletico Madrid\u2019s David de Gea to replace Van der Sar \u2013 who retired at the end of the last campaign \u2013 but the 27-year-old is confident he can make an impact at Old Trafford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":435234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-447923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manchester United goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard will fight for first-team place - 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\/06\/26\/manchester-united-goalkeeper-anders-lindegaard-will-fight-for-first-team-place\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Manchester United goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard will fight for first-team place - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Miles Chambers 26 Jun 2011 18:44:00 Anders Lindegaard of Manchester United (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester United\u2019s Anders Lindegaard is hoping to make a claim to be the Premier League holder\u2019s first choice goalkeeper this season. 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