{"id":9549,"date":"2011-12-09T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/premier-league-preview-manchester-united-v-wolves\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T09:17:00","slug":"premier-league-preview-manchester-united-v-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/09\/premier-league-preview-manchester-united-v-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Preview: Manchester United v Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tbody readability=\"9.5\">\n<tr readability=\"19\">\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<div><strong>MANCHESTER UNITED<\/strong><br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><span>De Gea<br \/>Smalling, Ferdinand, Evans, Evra<br \/>Nani, Jones, Carrick, Young<br \/>Welbeck, Rooney<\/span><\/em><span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will be without Anderson (knee), Dimitar Berbatov (ankle), Tom Cleverley (ankle), Fabio (hamstring), with his brother Rafael also sidelined with a knock.<\/p>\n<p>The list of those injured in battle continues as Javier Hernandez (ankle), Michael Owen (thigh) and Nemanja Vidic (knee) are all out for this fixture. The latter could be out for a few months after a nasty-looking fall at Basel.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves boss Mick McCarthy will likely miss the services of Jody Craddock (hamstring) and Kevin Foley (ankle), while Michael Kightly is unavailable because he is out on loan with Watford.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Manchester United<\/strong> have won only one of their last five matches in all competitions. Two losses, against Crystal Palace and Basel, saw them bow out of the League Cup and the Champions League respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>But Sir Alex Ferguson&#8217;s men have not been prolific in recent weeks, as they have scored exactly one goal in their last seven games in the Premier League.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Even <strong>Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/strong> have scored more in their last seven league games, as they have hit the back of the net nine times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The last time these two sides met was back in February at Molineux. Mick McCarthy&#8217;s men managed to secure a 2-1 victory on that occasion as goals from George Elokobi and Kevin Doyle saw the then bottom-placed team beating the league leaders at the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If all matches ended at half-time, Wolves would find themselves at the rock bottom of the Premier League.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><em>How do you stay up to date with football when on the move? With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/info\/683\/main\/2009\/09\/16\/1505389\/visit-mgoalcom-on-your-mobile\">http:\/\/m.goal.com<\/a> \u2013 your best source for mobile coverage of the beautiful game.<\/em><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> MANCHESTER UNITED \u00a0 De Gea Smalling, Ferdinand, Evans, Evra Nani, Jones, Carrick, Young Welbeck, Rooney Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will be without Anderson (knee), Dimitar Berbatov (ankle), Tom Cleverley (ankle), Fabio (hamstring), with his brother Rafael also sidelined with a knock. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9549","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>Premier League Preview: Manchester United v Wolves - 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