Manchester United go in search of
their second home Barclays Premier League victory of the season when they
entertain Stoke City on Saturday. David
Mosey' side have won just one from four Premier League matches at Old Trafford
this season, and struggled to a 1-0 victory against Real Sociedad in the
Champions League on Wednesday. David Moyes' men could go three matches
without a home victory in the Premier League for the first time since October
2005 should Stoke deny them three points this weekend.
Manager David Moyes has confirmed Robin van Persie should be
fit to return for Manchester United for the match against Stoke. Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic could return but Danny Welbeck and Tom
Cleverley are unlikely to figure.
Rooney is great form and Wayne Rooney shone against Real
Sociedad, and his statement afterwards about having "a new lease of
life" under Moyes was something else to make the manager smile. Rooney's
past history with his first mentor was meant to be a problem but it's working
out as quite the opposite.
Meanwhile Michael Carrick feels Manchester United need to be more ruthless in attack as
they look to turn around a below-par start to the season. He told
reporters: "We're creating chances and opportunities and the attacking
lads are looking dangerous. It's just not falling for them at certain times."You're
concerned more when you're not creating chances and the lads aren't getting
opportunities, but with the quality that we have I think they'll start going in
a lot more."
Manchester Supporter
may feel happy to know that Getting anything away to Manchester United has been difficult for even
longer, with Stoke beaten in every one of their last 10 visits and winless
since 1976.
Given all that, United surely won't
go a third home league game without a win, will they? No book has the answer to
that. So watch the match and know it on 26 Oct 2013.
