Nemanja Vidic is fit and will face Blackburn Rovers at
Ewood Park on Saturday afternoon.
That was the big team news from Sir Alex’s weekly
press conference at Carrington on Friday lunchtime, followed by
word that Nani will also travel with the squad and
could be on the bench for the crunch Premier League
fixture.
Vidic injured his knee against AS Roma on 1 April and was forced to
sit out the return leg in Manchester, as well as the Reds’ league
battles with Middlesbrough and Arsenal.
There was also encouraging news on Darren
Fletcher, who was injured on international duty for
Scotland in late March. The 24-year-old has returned to light
training and is expected to resume full training on Monday.
“It’s good news,” Sir Alex said. “It’s another player back to add
to the recent returns of Gary [Neville] and Mikael [Silvestre] and
will give us good options."
Not all the news from the manager’s press conference was rosy,
however. Midfielders Anderson and Owen
Hargreaves are both slight doubts ahead of Saturday’s trip
to Blackburn, although Anderson was able to train on Friday. But
Louis Saha is definitely out after injuring his
hamstring in training earlier this week.
"It's very disapppointing both for us and the Louis," said the
boss.