Reds have style and substance

AT the top of the premier league and buoyed by their midweek Champions League victory over Wolfsburg, Manchester United are in a good place before Sunday’s crunch match against Arsenal.

Boasting a one-point advantage over Manchester rivals City, Louis Van Gaal’s players will fancy their chances of overturning a Gunners outfit who suffered a 3-2 home defeat at the hands of Olympiakos in their own Champions League fixture.

Arsenal have been unpredictable so far this season and they retain the potential to inflict plenty of damage on their opponents. Three points against United this weekend would bring them level on 16 points with their rivals.

But United are on a steday upward curve: midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin feels the Reds are starting to silence doubters.

"We are improving," he said. "At the start of the season people were talking about good results and not very good performances. In the last few weeks, I don't hear this any more.”



CITY goalkeeper Joe Hart hopes Manchester City's last–gasp win at Borussia Monchengladbach will provide the spark to get their season back on track.

Sergio Aguero scored a 90th–minute penalty winner as City came from behind to beat the Germans 2–1 at Borussia Park and secure their first points in Champions League Group ‘D’.

It was a hard–fought win and City, who entertain Newcastle in the Premier League tomorrow, were still short of the form that saw them cruise through their opening five games without conceding a goal.

Hart, who was outstanding in Germany, said: "We really need to improve, but as badly as we played I think we still deserved to win.

"The season is long so you have got different stages. Hopefully that win will put us in a good place for the Newcastle game."



SIR Alex Ferguson will return to the Old Trafford dug-out on November 14 to manage his former Manchester United ace David Beckham and other stars in a charity match for Unicef.

The 73 year old legend will manage a Great Britain and Ireland XI captained by Beckham, whose team will play a Rest of the World XI led by former Real Madrid and France star Zinedine Zidane and managed by Carlo Ancelotti.