Pires to be the sub, preferably before 65th min.
check this out anyway
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COME ON YOU REDS
Fergie silences his enemies and now he's ready to make friends with
ARSENAL
By David Anderson
SIR ALEX Ferguson admits he will be cheering on bitter rivals
Arsenal against Chelsea on Sunday.
The Manchester United boss will put his animosity towards Arsene
Wenger to one side for 90 minutes in the hope Arsenal can win to
give his side hope in the title race.
"Of course I'll have my Arsenal hat on," said Ferguson. "I'll
certainly be cheering them on. Everybody is hoping Chelsea drop
points. Myself, Arsenal and Liverpool.
"This win puts us level on games with Chelsea. We're nine points
behind and it's a long way. The only thing we can do is try and put
a consistent run together from now until the end of the season and
see where that takes us.
"If Chelsea slip up, and it could happen, then we want to be the
team that's next to them. If they do slip, then we'll have a
chance."
United turned on the style against Wigan at Old Trafford to climb
to second in the table and Ferguson claimed it was the ideal
response after their humiliating Champions League exit.
"I'm pleased with this performance in the context of the last
week," he said. "It's been a bad week for the club. The only way
out of it is for everyone to grit their teeth, persevere and stick
to their principles.
"I think that was an important win for us and I thought we produced
some great football. In the second half, for 25 minutes in
particular, we played some superb football.
"We produced some great first- touch football and I thought the
third goal was phenomenal."
Rio Ferdinand put United on the way to their biggest win of the
season with his first goal in 140 games for the club before Wayne
Rooney scored a fantastic double and Ruud van Nistelrooy bagged his
12th Premiership strike from the penalty spot.
England centre-half Ferdinand, whose last goal came against Denmark
in the 2002 World Cup, admitted he was relieved to get off the
mark.
"I've been waiting a long time for that goal," he said. "I'm not
going to lie. It was getting to me a bit and so it was good to get
one. Hopefully I can get more.
"In training the lads would joke to me about not getting one. It
was a great ball by Giggsy and that made it easy for me."
Van Nistelrooy denied Rooney the chance to get his hat-trick when
he took the penalty, but the England striker refused to moan.
"Ruud takes the penalties," he said. "So there was nothing wrong
with what he did. I was delighted with my two goals and delighted
we got the three points."
Wigan boss Paul Jewell refused to be despondent after a fifth
successive Premiership defeat.
"If you look at the run of games we've had, there's no team in the
world which has had a tougher run than that," he said.
"We're disappointed to lose, but we've still got 25 points from 16
games. We need another five wins to stay up and I'm sure we'll get
them."
