Manchester United vs Fulham Preview

January 25, 2013
By: Deke Hardman

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Saturday’s late kick off in the FA Cup Fourth Round sees eleven times winners Manchester United face 1975 runners-up Fulham at Old Trafford.

The hosts are unbeaten in their last ten games in all competitions, as they aim to emulate the success of fourteen years ago, and complete a Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup treble.

They did however need a replay to get past West Ham United after the original tie finished 2-2 at Upton Park earlier this month.

United will be without injured duo Ashley Young and Jonny Evans though Nani, Anderson and Shinji Kagawa could all be included after recently returning to fitness.

Robin Van Persie has 22 goals for the season, and is the 3.75 (11/4) favourite to open the scoring, while Wayne Rooney is a 4.5 (7/2) shot with most bookmakers.

1.3 (3/10) is the best price available for the home win, with Fulham as highly priced as 12.0 (11/1). The draw is on offer at 6.0 (5/1).

Fulham have just two wins from their last fifteen league games, and were also taken to a replay in the third round, eventually beating Blackpool after extra-time at Bloomfield Road.

The visitors will be without former Manchester United player Keiran Richardson, who along with Kerim Frei and Mahamadou Diarra is side-line through injury.

Dimitar Berbatov is set to face his old club, and the Bulgarian is 13.0 (12/1) to get the first goal of the game, whilst you can back him at 5.0 (4/1) to score at any time.

The two sides have met on nine occasions in this competition, with Fulham’s only success coming at this stage back in 1908.

Manchester United came out on top when they hosted Martin Jol’s men in the Premier League back in August, though Fulham did take an early lead through Damien Duff.

Goals from Robin Van Persie, Shinji Kagawa and Rafael put the game out of sight before half time; a second half own goal from Nemanja Vidic proving to be no more than a consolation for the visitors.

Bet 365 offer the best odds of 4.33 (10/3) for Fulham to take the lead once again, whilst you can get 5.0 (4/1) for Sir Alex Ferguson’s men to come from behind and draw or win.

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