da bet7： Still unbeaten and watching their title challengers flounder around them, Manchester United look set for a good 2011, as they find themselves ahead of the pack with a game in hand. As many teams have found out to their peril, it is far better to have the points in the bag than be working on the hypothetical notion of possible points accumulated from a game, and looking at Manchester United’s game in hand, it is a potential banana skin.
da fazobetai： Cancelled due to the adverse weather conditions a couple of weeks ago, United’s game against Premier League mavericks Blackpool at Bloomfield Road could always be seen as a potential upset, but now the fixture has been pressed further into the depths of the Premier League season, there will be more gravity on the outcome of the game, for both sides.
With the only real down points in their season so far coming in the shape of a 6-0 defeat at Arsenal, although they were down to 10 men when only 1-0 down, and being 4-0 down at Chelsea after only half an hour, Blackpool can rightly feel confident in their attacking mentality, which has only yielded one goalless game so far this season, at Upton Park in November.
It is Blackpool’s fearless approach to their games that has caused the ‘bigger’ teams in the Premier League to sit back and take note, and although Arsenal and Chelsea turned them over fairly easily, since then, this hasn’t been the case. The rearranged game with United is set for the 25th January, in a month’s time, and as we all well know, a lot can happen over Christmas in English football, and whether when the Red Devils go to Bloomfield Road they are looking to extend a lead, get back on top of the Premier League or trying to cling to the pace-setters‘ coat-tails, they will not fancy the short trip to the seaside to meet Ian Holloway’s side.
United will also feel aggrieved that their meeting with the unpredictable Tangerines originally fell during perhaps their best form of the season, not to say they won’t carry that form into the New Year and well beyond, but when negotiating Bloomfield Road towards the end of January, they may feel that had they played the fixture at the beginning of December there would have been a lot less gravity on the match. Either way, as is the case for most clubs, Blackpool are an unpredictable entity that most would rather were behind them, than in front of them, in the fixture list.
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