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Friday, July 20, 2007

Benayoun and Babel debut in the match against Auxerre

Yossi Benayoun and Ryan Babel will be handed their first Liverpool starts against Auxerre this afternoon.
The pair will feature in the first half along with 19-year-old Bulgarian keeper Nikolay Mihaylov.

Record signing Fernando Torres is among the substitutes.

The team in full is: Mihaylov, Finnan, Paletta, Carragher, Arbeloa, Benayoun, Gerrard, Hobbs, Babel, Voronin, Kuyt. Subs: PR, SC, SH, JAR, JP, NEZ, PC, SD, DA, XA, FT.

Source: liverpoolfc.tv

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Manchester United 4 - 0, Full Time

Manchester United had score 4 goals in their 2nd Far East Tour. 3 Goals in 1st-half, and 1 goals in 2nd half was scored by Manchester United's player.

1st Half:
9" C.Ronaldo [Man Utd]
19" Eagles [Man Utd]
21" Rooney [Man Utd]

2nd Half:
61" Patrick Evra [Man Utd]

Teams:

Man United: van der Sar (Kuszczak, 45), Bardsley (Simpson, 45), Ferdinand, Vidic, Silvestre, Eagles, Carrick (Scholes, 45), O'Shea, Evra, Rooney (Smith, 45), Ronaldo (Giggs, 45)

FC Seoul: Kim, Kwak, Adilson, Lee (Kim, 45), Kon (???, 73), Choi, K i-Sun-Yueng, Lee Chung-Yong, Ricardo (Ahn, 73), Lee, Jung (Sim, 45)

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Manchester United vs Seoul FC (Updates)

In 46 mins, Manchester United have made five changes. Rooney, Ronaldo, Van der Sar, Bardsley and Carrick are off, with Smith, Scholes, Kuszczak, Giggs and Simpson on in their place. Let's hope FC Seoul show a little more fight in the second half. An early goal for the home side could really make things interesting.

Source: ManUtd.com

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Man Utd 3 - 0 Seoul FC - Half Time

Good start for Manchester United in Korea. In 21 minutes, Manchester United had score 3 goals against Seoul FC.

Summary of first half score:

9" C.Ronaldo [Man Utd]
19" Eagles [Man Utd]
21" Rooney [Man Utd]

Latest score in 2nd half:
61" Patrick Evra [Man Utd]

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Nani's debut, Manchester United vs Seoul FC

Manchester United's new signing, Nani, is ready for his debut match to face Seoul FC in the Far East Tour in 30 more minutes time.

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Everton bid for United's Smith?

EVERTON boss David Moyes is ready to bid for Manchester United's Alan Smith - after reeling from the loss of starlet James Vaughan for three months.

Moyes has had Smith on his wish-list for weeks and chairman Bill Kenwright has already spoken to United about a deal for the England squad man within their budget.

But now Vaughan's cruel shoulder dislocation has made the Smith move a priority - and talks will begin to agree a fee and see if the player wants to go to Goodison.
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United will look for around £8m for Smith, with boss Sir Alex Ferguson bullish about the price of his players after selling Kieran Richardson to Sunderland for £5.5m. Moyes could offload James Beattie to part-fund the Smith move.

Source: mirror.co.uk

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Man Ciy's Bianchi score on the debut match. Manchester City 4 - 1 Orgryte

Manchester City new boy Rolando Bianchi marked his debut with a goal as the Blues beat Swedish side Orgryte 4-1 in a friendly tonight.

The Italian, signed from Reggina for a reported £8.8million, opened the scoring from close range after a one-two with striker partner Emile Mpenza.

Orgryte equalised through Boyd Mwila on 37 minutes but Bernardo Corradi restored City's lead in the second half after a shot from youngster Shaleum Logan hit the post.

Greek striker Georgios Samaras headed in a third from a Darius Vassell cross before Logan rounded off the scoring in the 64th minute.

Match's Highlight in YouTube:


Source: Soccernet.com

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Van der Sar last season with Red Devils?

Manchester United keeper Edwin van der Sar has admitted that next season may be his last for the club.

The 36-year-old, who will be out of contract next June, admitted he did not perform as well as normal last season.

The microscope is on Van der Sar a little more than he would wish at such an early stage of the campaign following his blunder against Urawa in Tokyo.

After other mistakes against Portsmouth and AS Roma last term, questions are now being asked of the former Fulham star, virtually for the first time since he joined United two years ago.

And he admits that some of his performances at the back end of last season were not up to his usual high standard.

'It is a mistake if you work harder to make up for errors,' he said.

'You have to stick to your routines.

'I didn't have the same consistency at the end of the season as I had in the previous part of the season. I don't know why.

'It is difficult to be 100% over the whole year but there were a couple of things not to my satisfaction.

'You have to analyse what happened and think about it - but then you have to get on with it.'

Source: Soccernet.com

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Fulham sign £2.5million QPR winger Cook

Fulham have confirmed the signing of left winger Lee Cook from QPR.

The 24-year-old has signed a four-year deal at Craven Cottage after the two clubs agreed an undisclosed fee, reported to be in the region of £2.5million.

Cottagers manager Lawrie Sanchez said: 'I am pleased to have added Lee to our summer signings and am confident that he has the ability to play at this level.

'I know that he is hungry and ambitious and will do everything he can to impress in this league.

'Lee's addition gives us much-needed left-sided options and I am now approaching the first game of our season confident that we have a squad of players that will do well.'

Cook joined Rangers from Watford in 2004 and was instrumental in helping them to avoid relegation from the Coca-Cola Championship last season.

He becomes Sanchez's seventh signing of the summer after Aaron Hughes, Steven Davis, Diomansy Kamara, Chris Baird, Paul Konchesky and David Healy.

Source: Soccernet.com

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Arsenal 3 - 0 Genclerbirligi, easy win by Robin van Persie and Theo Walcott

Goals from young gunner, Robin van Persie and Walcott had made Arsenal an easy 3-0 win over Turkish side Genclerbirligi in Austria.

Bacary Sagna and Eduardo da Silva were made the debut in this match in Bad Waltersdorf.

But it was their more established young team-mates who caught the eye, and in particular the 18-year-old England forward.

Walcott laid on van Persie's opener in first-half injury-time with a fantastic pass and shortly after the interval scored himself after build-up play by Denilson and Emmanuel Adebayor.

The Togo international also created van Persie's second with 25 minutes left.

Here is the YouTube clip for the highlights of the match.

1st Goal from Arsenal's Robin van Persie:


2nd Goal from Walcott:


3rd Goal from Robin van Persie:


7 substitution by Arsenal:


Source: Soccernet.com

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Smith & Rossi leaving?

Sir Alex Ferguson has dropped the broadest hint yet that Alan Smith and Giuseppe Rossi are on their way out of Old Trafford - but squashed flat any suggestion of Gabriel Heinze leaving for Liverpool.

With the Carlos Tevez wrangle expected to be resolved by the end of August, Smith and Rossi's futures have been the subject of intense debate over the last few weeks.

Middlesbrough are rumoured to have made a substantial offer for Smith, who made an impressive contribution at the back end of the title-winning campaign after finally recovering from the horrific injuries he suffered at Liverpool in February 2006, while Parma are keen to keep Rossi, who scored an incredible nine goals in a 16-game loan spell to keep the club in Serie A.

Perhaps understandably given the uncertainty over Tevez's situation, Ferguson is trying to keep his options open as long as possible.

But the Manchester United boss accepts that if Tevez does eventually sign, neither Smith nor Rossi may feel entirely comfortable at the number of first-team opportunities they are likely to get next term.

'We have had offers for Giuseppe, which puts us in a bit of a situation, while the quandary with Alan surrounds his long-term future and getting regular games,' Ferguson said.

'There is no doubt Alan did fantastically well for us when he came back last season.

'He gave the team a spiritual lift and because he is such a fighter, he was an inspiration to us. But he is 26 now and he wants regular football.

'I have to look at Manchester United in terms of how do we improve to get better. And when someone like Tevez comes along, it makes it difficult for people like Alan and Giuseppe in particular.

'The most important thing is that they are our players and we can make decisions when we like.'

The situation is further muddied by Ferguson's admission he lodged a bid for another striker this summer.

Ferguson opted not to name the player but Bolton's Nicolas Anelka was rumoured to be a strong target, while the agent of Fabio Quagliarella, who scored 13 goals for Italian outfit Sampdoria last term but has since had his contract bought out in its entirety by co-owners Udinese, claimed six weeks ago United had bid £10million for the 23-year-old.

'We did try to get another player,' confirmed Ferguson.

'It is obvious they are not going to sell at this particular time but we have our tabs on the situation.'

If doubts persist over the precise nature of his striking pool, there appears little room for argument with Ferguson over Heinze's future.

United's Player of the Year in 2005 and a hero to the Red Devils support, the Argentina star has frustrated many fans with an apparent desire to leave for Liverpool.

Only once, Phil Chisnall in 1962, has a player headed out of Old Trafford down the East Lancs Road for the Merseyside giants and talk of transfers between the pair in the intervening four and a half decades has been almost non-existent.

Although Heinze seems to see no problem making the switch between the hated north-west duo, Ferguson has other ideas.

The Scot, whose side tackle K-League outfit FC Seoul in the second game of their Far East tour tomorrow, clearly has issues over the involvement of Heinze's agent in talks over the 29-year-old's future.

And he has told a player who spent almost an entire year of his three-season stint at United recovering from major knee surgery he can forget any idea of turning Anfield into his home ground.

'I can assure you, Liverpool will not be getting Gabriel Heinze,' said Ferguson.

'We can put that to bed right now and we have done so. We have had a couple offers for him and we have turned them down.

'I don't exactly know what Gaby thinks because it is all coming from his agent.

'He has been rolling the ball all the time but this has been going on for a year and a half now.'

Source: Soccernet.com

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