Injury News For Manchester United

Making lots of headlines are the midfield duo-Marouane Fellaini and Ander Herrera who both acquired ankle injuries. Fellani will have a scan today which will rule him out for tomorrows game against Sunderland.
Manchester United have seven injured players who are Michael Carrick, Ander Herrera, Marouane Fellani, Jesse Lingard, Luke Shaw, Johnny Evans and Anotonio Valencia who is back in training but not in consideration for a starting spot.


But there is some good news Robin Van Persie is
fit to play who missed the opening game against Swansea.


If you would like to see my Manchester United V Swansea City report click here 


Click here for my Manchester United Pre-Match facts

Also here is Van Gaal talking about the injuries:

Sunderland V Manchester United- Pre Match Facts

Pre-Match Facts Manchester United


Manchester United are unbeaten at the Stadium Of Light since 1997 when they lost to Sunderland 2-1. Their record is: Won 9, Drawn 3.


Sunderland have only ever kept one clean sheet at home against Manchester United.


Sunderland's victory at Old Trafford last season was their first victory in 24 attempts.


Manchester United have not lost the first two games of a season since the first Premier League season in 1992/93, when they were beaten by Sheffield Wednesday and Everton.


United won 10 of their away games last season, only Arsenal won more with 11.


United have only lost 1 out of their last 7 Premier League away games, which was a 2-0 defeat against Everton.


Louis Van Gaal has only ever lost the first two games of a season once, when he managed AZ Alkmaar in the 2008/09 season.


Pre-Match Stats Sunderland:Manager Gus Poyet


Sunderland have scored in each of their last 7 Premier League games.

The Black Cats have only lost 1 of their last 7 games against Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium.


Last season Sunderland lost their first 4 home games, but eventually won on the 27th October against Newcastle.


Sunderland last season lost 5 of their 19 home games, the joint worst record in the Premier League.


Adam Johnson (4) and Fabio Borini (5) were the only two players to score more than 2 goals at home in the whole of last season.


My Predicted Score:

Sunderland 0-2 Manchester United



(Some details courtesy of BBC Sport)

Welcome To Manchester United - Marcos Rojo!

Manchester United have officially signed the young, 24 year old, Argentinian defender Marcos Rojo on a five year contract for £16 million, plus a season long loan for Nani going the other way back to Sporting Lisbon, his old club.

We had the pleasure of watching his brilliant potential at the World Cup 2014 playing with Argentina as he helped them to the final and earlier in the competition he scored against Nigeria in their 3-2 win.
Manchester United will have to pay £4.8 million pounds in total for Nani's wages .

Rojo will wear the number 5 shirt which the Manchester United Legend Rio Ferdinand wore before his recent moved to QPR.

Courtesy of the Manchester United Official Website click here for a full interview with Rojo.

Rojo is Louis Van Gaal's third signing of the summer. Luke Shaw arrived from Southampton for a fee around £27 million pounds, one of the biggest ever fees for a defender. He is 19 years old but is currently out for about a month with a hamstring injury.

Then from Athletic Bilbao the 25 year old from Spain Ander Herrera joined and looked very impressive in Pre season plus he did pretty well against Swansea City, starting to prove his worth of £30 million.

Full match report for  Manchester United v Swansea.

Louis Van Gaal's Nightmare Manchester United Start

The first game of the 2014/2015 campaign couldn't have started worse for Manchester United.
It was Louis Van Gaal's first ever Premier League game, against Swansea City at the, 'Theatre Of Dreams', Old Trafford.
The game kicked off at 12:45 PM.
It started extremely badly for Jesse Lingard, on his Premier League debut he was injured at twenty minutes so Adnan Januzaj replaced him with his new number eleven shirt.
26 minutes through Nathan Dyer got the first yellow card of the new season (not something to boast about!)
After an eventful first 27 minutes you could sense a goal was coming.
One minute afterwards Ki Sung-Yueng (who had a successful loan spell at Sunderland last season) scored a fabulous one touch finish which was assisted by new signing Gylfi Sigurdsson and opened the scoring in Swansea's favour.
There were a few chances before half time but all were squandered.
0-1 Swansea at the break.

Half Time substitute, Nani (who is reported by Sky Sports and BBC sport is part of an exchange with Marcos Rojo, the Argentinian player who performed excellently to get Argentina into the World Cup final, and scored in the build up to the final. It is reported Nani is only going on loan to Sporting Lisbon, his old club. Lisbon and United seem to have agreed a deal around about £16 million pounds prier to a medical ) replaces Javier Hernández (who is rumoured to go with Shinji Kagawa to Atletico Madrid for a combined fee in the region of £25 million)

Whatever Louis Van Gaal said at half time improved the overall performance.
Neil Taylor was booked for a cynical foul three minutes after the restart.
Then after 53 minutes Rooney scored a superb acrobatic bicycle kick. 1-1.
Substitution for Swansea at 53 minutes Dwight Tiendalli replaced Neil Taylor.
Then Jonjo Shelvey goes into the referees notebook for a challenge at 54 minutes.
Then in the 67th minute a substitution is made for both sides.
The new, extremely quick, signing Jefferson Montero replaced the already booked Nathan Dyer. Then for Manchester United Marouane Fellani (Rumoured to have a loan move to Napoli which he would prefer to be permanent, but if it was a loan deal Manchester United would have to pay half of his weekly wages every week, which could sway Manchester United to sell him permanently) replaced Ander Herrera the new signing who played his first Premier league game after arriving from Athletic Bilbao for in the region of £28 million.
In the 72nd minute disaster with a capital D.
Gylfi Sigurdsson who recently signed for Swansea from Tottenham for £6.8 million shot from the centre of the box and it found the net scruffily, assisted by Wayne Routledge.
77 minutes through and Swansea make a substitute, new signing Bafétimbi Gomis, who recently arrived from Leon on a free transfer, replaced Wilfred Bony.
Then for a bad foul the first goalscorer Ki Sung-Yueng was shown a yellow card. A minute later Premier League Debutant Tyler Blackett, who put in a solid performance, was shown a yellow. Obviously 80 plus minutes wasn't a time for discipline, because Ashley Young who looks to have become a different player over the pre season tour, was shown a yellow for a bad foul.
There were six minutes added time, could Manchester United scrape a draw?
No.
Final score Manchester United 1-2 Swansea.
This was Manchester United first opening day defeat at home since 1972...

This is what Louis Van Gaal had to say post match. Courtesy of BT Sport: