Posted August 6, 201014 yr A little late in posting this and no time to write a preview as I am heading off to work.
August 6, 201014 yr Well I have no idea what the team will be - if we will sub off half the team at half time - or what will happen. But am looking forward to it!
August 6, 201014 yr According to this afternoon's press conference same team as Hamburg with Hilario in goal
August 6, 201014 yr So - -------------------Hilario Ferreira---Ivan--------JT------A Cole ------------------Mikel --------Essien----------Lampard Kalou---------Anelka--------Malouda Glad to see Hilario got the nod over Turnbull. I can see the right back position being a problem for us in this Community Shield as in last year's, however. Looking forward to Bosingwa's return.
August 6, 201014 yr When is Boswinga back ? Hopefully he will be ready to be in our squad next week Take it easy with Bosi, he comes back from a long term injury and what matters most now is that he fully recovers well and doesnt have any set back Edited August 6, 201014 yr by Cules70
August 6, 201014 yr so looking forward to this game after the miserableness of the world cup, and only watching the pre-season friendlies on streams cant wait get on the train to london sunday morning, and go watch the lads at wembley again hopefully we will turn on the style and give the mancs a good battering some may say its only a glorified friendly, but theres no such thing as a friendly against the mancs. we should beat em and beat em good give us a good mental edge put one over fergie the haggis muncher early on
August 6, 201014 yr Not very confident on this one, still just a glorified pre-season friendly which we won last year but yeah I don't know I've just got this feeling in my gut that it could go tits up. Im hoping we will be on top after this one and hopefully after a 3-0 trashing. Winning this one could boost our confident ahead of the premier league season!
August 6, 201014 yr Our pre-season games did not instil much confidence. However, I believe the week-end game against Man U will be a good indicator of how our training progressed. I'm not reading too much into the Charity Shield as it's a poor indicator of the upcoming season. Hopefully some of our youngsters will get playing time. I hope we avoid serious injuries. Looking forward to going into the new season.
August 6, 201014 yr I'm not reading too much into the Charity Shield as it's a poor indicator of the upcoming season. I think the winner of the Shield has won the league each of the last three years. Coincidence? Of course.
August 7, 201014 yr From what I've heard we'll see, apart from Drogba, Cech, Alex and Bosingwa on the bench on sunday. If so, then I guess they are all fit to play and that would be brilliant news.
August 7, 201014 yr Not a great deal of form going into this one from us. But United have injury problems as well, so I think we are still favourites though it will be close either way. I know people think this is just a glorified friendly, but I think it is really important psychologically for us to get a win here. We've let a few blokes go and there is a bit of a new feel to the squad, so winning this fixture after losing our other pre-season matches would be a great boost to the morale of the team going into the first match of the new season against WBA.
August 7, 201014 yr Everytime we have started the season with a community shield win, we have gone on to win the league that season (2005, 2009).
August 7, 201014 yr I'd put Kakuta and Matic in from the start. If we lose no harm done its pretty meaningless if we win with a few kids in that would really get the mancs on about how Fergies past it and the board should have spent big. Nothing like instability at the start of the season
August 7, 201014 yr I think the winner of the Shield has won the league each of the last three years. Coincidence? Of course. Coincidence? Of course! Charity Shield Premier League 1992 Leeds Man U 1994 Man U Blackburn 1995 Everton Man U 1997 Man U Arsenal 1998 Arsenal Man U 1999 Arsenal Man U 2000 Chelsea Man U 2001 Liverpool Arsenal 2002 Arsenal Man U 2003 Man U Arsenal 2004 Arsenal Chelsea 2006 Liverpool Man U
August 7, 201014 yr Glad you posted that Randy, I can remember a few years ago people saying winning this is a curse as the winners rarely win the league.
August 7, 201014 yr Glad you posted that Randy, I can remember a few years ago people saying winning this is a curse as the winners rarely win the league. Only 6 times in EPL history
August 7, 201014 yr Seems a bit like Carlo is planning a JT/Ivanovic partnership this season. Otherwise he would surely prefer Carvahlo to PF and move Ivan to RB.
