Manchester United 24 man squad

Posted on Monday, May 19th, 2008 at 9:17 pm in Champions League, News

Manchester United 24 man squad: Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Heaton, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Brown, Neville, O’Shea, Silvestre, Pique, Scholes, Carrick, Giggs, Hargreaves, Anderson, Fletcher, Park, Nani, Ronaldo, Rooney, Tevez, Saha, Welbeck.

Sir Alex must still narrow the squad to 18 for Wednesdays Champions League Final. That means 6 players will be mere spectators. Paul Scholes has been promised a spot in the starting eleven after missing the 1999 victory through suspension. And if Ryan Giggs is selected, he will break Sir Bobby Charlton’s club record of 758 appearances.

Here is my starting line up:

Van der Sar,
Brown, Vidic, Ferdinand, and Evra.
Ronaldo, Scholes, Carrick, Park
Rooney and Tevez

Kuszczak, O’Shea, Silvestre, Giggs, Hargreaves, Nani, Anderson

(I would like to see Nani in for Park, but Sir Alex will probably start Park)

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6 Responses to “Manchester United 24 man squad”

ur selection is ok. but i did prefer hargreaves starts the match cos of his european nite experience.. i did prefer it this way.

van der sar
brown vidic ferdinard evra
scholes hargreaves carrick
ronaldo rooney tevez

bench…park,nani,anderson,giggs,kushaksilvestre,oshea

teemoney, nigeria • May 20th, 2008 at 12:15 am

thanx for all the latest news you publish for us from my favourite club manutd.
i think my starting XI is like this;
van der sar, Brown, Evra, vidic, ferdinand,carrick,scholes, ronaldo,nani,park,rooney, tezev

martin • May 20th, 2008 at 2:01 am

Hmm…Only one problem with ur starting XI, martin. You’ve got a starting XII.

Starting XI:
Van der Sar, Hargreaves, Vidic, Rio, Evra, Ronaldo, Scholes, Anderson, Giggs, Rooney, Tevez.

Bench: Kuz., Park, Nani, Pique, Neville, Fletcher, Welbeck.

Anderson starts for Carrick because he’s played solid big games and can PLAY in them. Fergie said it himself, its that Brazilian thing. Neville on the bench for a CL Final runout since he HAS to be on his way out. Welbeck….well, if the score gets up there, give him a runabout.

Chris • May 20th, 2008 at 8:05 am

My starting 11 has a caveat… first, the names:

Van der Sar
Brown, Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra
Ronaldo, Scholes, Carrick, Giggs (OMG, did I really just say that?)
Rooney, Tevez

Bench: Kuszczak, Anderson, Nani, Hargreaves, O’Shea, Saha (is he even fit?), Neville

Anyone that knows me, knows I’m not a big fan of Giggs anymore. He’s still fast enough, but he’s lost that hunger and that hurts his game. That last game against Wigan, when it counted, he showed he could still make the right run, and score. With this game being even bigger than Wigan, let’s hope Giggsy has another 3 or 4 of those stellar runs.

My caveat to this line-up is that if it doesn’t seem to be working – i.e. no pressure being put on Chelsea’s defense and/or Manu is behind … switch to Nani EARLY.

Followed closely by a switch of Anderson for Scholes.

The defense will have to step up and contain Chelsea’s speed and power – please do not let Drogba settle around the 18 with his back to goal. That strikes fear into my heart!

The key for me is getting out quick on the counter-attacks (you know Chelsea will be attacking). I think we can beat them, but we have to do it while they are pressed forward. I don’t think a methodical build-up will get us a goal…

jquijano • May 20th, 2008 at 8:24 am

Starting 11:
Van Der Sar
Neville, Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra
Ronaldo, Hargreaves, Scholes, Giggs
Rooney, Tevez

Bench:
Kuskuzak, Brown, O’Shea, Nani, Park, Carrick, Anderson

Scott • May 21st, 2008 at 5:01 am

Starting XI (4-4-1-1):

Edwin van der Sar (vc)
Wes Brown, Rio Ferdinand (c), Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra
Ronaldo, Paul Scholes, Carrick, Nani
Wayne Rooney
Carlos Tevez

Bench:
Tomasz Kuszczak, Gary Neville, John O’Shea, Ryan Giggs, Park Ji Sung, Owen Hargreaves, Anderson

Ryan Neo Yee Shien • June 17th, 2008 at 10:04 pm