Mourinho springs surprises, Arsenal stick with home eleven
Patrick Vieira will line up against Manchester United again tonight
Jose Mourinho has decided to start Patrick Vieira and Mario Balotelli against Manchester United tonight while Walter Samuel returns to the Inter Milan defence. Carlos Tevez’ reward for scoring twice against Fulham is a place on the bench while Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes both start in midfield.
Arsene Wenger has named the same eleven players for Arsenal that started the 1-0 win over Roma a fortnight ago. As well as indicating that the Frenchman doesn’t intend to adopt a safety-first approach, it means he has Theo Walcott and Eduardo waiting in the wings to make an impact of the bench.
Manchester United: Van Der Sar; O’Shea, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra; Ronaldo, Scholes, Carrick, Giggs; Berbatov; Rooney
Subs: Foster, Evans, Anderson, Park, Fletcher, Gibson, Tevez
Inter: Julio Cesar; Maicon, Cordoba, Samuel, Santon; Zanetti, Vieira, Cambiasso, Stankovic; Ibrahimovic, Balotelli
Subs: Toldo, Rivas, Maxwell, Figo, Muntari, Cruz, Adriano
Roma: Doni; Motta, Diamoutene, Juan, Riise; Tonetto, Brighi, Pizarro, Taddei; Totti, Vucinic
Subs: Artur, Aquilani, Filipe, Loria, Baptista, Montella, Menez
Arsenal: Almunia; Sagna, Toure, Gallas, Clichy; Eboue, Diaby, Denilson, Nasri; Van Persie, Bendtner
Subs: Fabianski, Djourou, Gibbs, Song, Walcott, Eduardo, Vela
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