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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Carling Cup showdown

Carling Cup Final at Wembley Stadium tomorrow. Kick-off time 1500GMT (11pm Malaysia time). Live coverage on Astro SuperSport (811).

Red-hot favourites Manchester will face holders Tottenham is what promises to be an intriguing Carling cup final.

What are my cup final predictions?
For me, with players like Vidic, Ferdinand and Evans you have 3 outstanding centre-halves. And United also have a world-class keeper Van Der Sar. With this combination has helped United becomes a very difficult team to score against this season.

United feature in Carling Cup final for 6 time and they won 2 of the final on 1992 and 2006. They become runner-up on 1983, 1991, 1994 and 2003.

It'll be interesting to see how Sir Alex goes about picking the team to play Spurs. With young midfielder Darron Gibson and striker Danny Welbeck as starting XI. Sir Alex want to win the cup so there will be experience on the pitch and big hitter on the bench.

Holders Spurs have got worries elsewhere they're still in the precarious position in the league. Survival is the be all and end all for them so if they had the choice of winning on Sunday or staying in the Premier League, I know which one their fan would choose.

Harry Redknapp has a tough task ahead of him. He got a limited squad he can pick from because a few of the big names are cup-tied. Among them are Robbie Keane, Wilson Palacios, Pascal Chimbonda and Carlo Cudicini. Fraizer Campbell cannot play because he's on load from United. That just leave Darren Bent and Roman Pavlyuchenko to try break down the United defence. Harry may chooses to play 4-5-1 and leave Bent on the bench with Pavlyuchenko as main target man.

United will be outstanding favourites. They've got a great squad and have an superb season so far.

j03Y

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