Manchester United Monday
July 27, 2009
Checking in with our lads at Old Trafford today, Wayne Rooney has set a goal for his goals this season. He wants to beat his 20 nets from last season, especially since everyone is looking to him to earn the majority of them since Cristiano Ronaldo’s departure.
Over the last two seasons, Ronaldo scored 68 goals for the team, which equals out to 30% of the team’s overall total goals. That leaves a huge gap of goals to be made up. Between Michael Owen, Dimitar Berbatov, Federico Macheda, and others that have already been scoring in preseason, as long as they can keep up and step up their streaks…the team should be able to fill that gap.
Wayne told ManUtd.com, “There are a lot of great players in our team and we know if we all work together then we’re capable of achieving great things.”
The team is on their way to Munich for the Audi cup where they will play Boca Juniors and Bayern Munich or AC Milan.
Rooney said, “You want more difficult games as pre-season progresses and I think the matches in Germany will be a really good test for the team. We’re still a couple of games off peak performance and from a personal point of view there’s still a bit of work to do.”
Rooney might be referring to his missed attempts at finding the back of the net during the second half of the second Malaysia game. He was trying very hard to score but it just wasn’t meant to be. Otherwise, on this Asian friendly tour, he’s really been scoring very well…just like we know he can.
Rio Ferdinand had high praise for Johnny Evans as the defender stayed on at Old Trafford even after receiving offers from Sunderland, where he most likely would have had more guaranteed time on the pitch. Some advice from Ferdinand could have helped him stick to his guns and keep the red jersey on his back.
“He’s a fantastic young player,” Rio Ferdinand told the Press Association. “For centre-halves it’s always difficult to see the best of them at early ages. There’s always a chance of them making mistakes but Jonny keeps that to a minimum.”
“I spoke to him in pre-season last year in South Africa,” Rio said. “He was at a stage where he wanted to play every week. He’d been doing that the season before at Sunderland and he didn’t want to come back and play for the Reserves again. He wanted to play first-team football.
“It’s the same argument for any young player: Do you want to go and play for mid-table team or do you want to be in the squad of a team where you’re going to get chances to play in a title-winning or European Cup-winning team?
“When you look at it like that it’s a bit of a no-brainer. The manager didn’t want to let him go anyway, but I think Jonny came round to thinking that it was better to be a part of the squad and play when the opportunities came.”
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