Nemanja Vidic to miss Manchester United VS Wolfsburg match

Manchester United defender ‘Nemanja Vidic’ has been listed out of Manchester Uniteds next match-up against Budesliga side VfL Wolfsburg as he is still sick from a recent ‘Flu Bug’ that already sat him out of United’s last match against West Ham on Saturday. Now Manchester United will only a one 1st team defender as ‘Wes Brown’ and ‘Gary Neville’  both will be out as they were injured in their last game and Rio Ferdinand, John O’Shea and Johnny Evans also will not be playing in the match. The only 1st team defender that will be able to play is French-man Patrice Evra.

Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson has already made it known that he might be playing midfielder Michael Carrick in the central defense and also will maybe start Darren Fletcher in the back as well. But in addition to their defensive problems, Sir Ferguson has also made it known the possibility of leaving his starter strikers Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov at home meaning that his other options would be starting Michael Owen and Danny Welbeck as his only strikers for this match.

With all the problems Manchester United are facing and with VfL Wolfsburg unbeaten home streak this season, the task for Manchester United to come out victorious and finish on top of the league table seems un-manageable but also will have a chance finishing on top with Besiktas losing to CSKA Moscow. Paul Scholes is one player from United who feels this will not be easy for United to finish on top of the league table and went on to state the following :

“This was one of the toughest groups,” he said. “We had to go to Moscow, which is always difficult, especially on a plastic pitch, and it is the same in Turkey, yet we managed to win both games. CSKA and Besiktas went on to prove at Old Trafford that they are very capable teams and, when you take into account Wolfsburg are the German champions, we did well to qualify as early as we did. We want to win the game and finish top of the group. How much difference that makes to who we get in the next round, I am not too sure. There are lots of good teams at that stage of the tournament.”

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