Manchester United vs Blackburn Rovers – (Saturday 5.30pm)

Football can be very cruel at times & Blackburn Rovers must feel everything is against the right having to play Manchester United away just as everything starts to go wrong.

Blackburn Rovers come into this game with the squad having been hit by an outbreak of swine flu which is bad enough but their incredibly poor record at Old Trafford will make them feel 10 times worse.

Blackburn Rovers have only won one of the 15 Premier League matches played between these two sides at Old Trafford & their incredibly poor away record this season paints a sorry picture of 4 defeats & 16 goals conceded with only 3 scored.

The final painful element for Blackburn Rovers is the fact that they have to face a Manchester United side that will be absolutely determined, focused & driven to put right what went so badly wrong against Liverpool & Blackburn Rovers could well be on the end of another backlash.

The Manchester United performance against Liverpool lacked any quality, determination & most disappointingly a desire to win and there is no way Alex Ferguson will tolerate another performance like that so we do expect Manchester United to go all out to win this fixture & determined to show their true ability.

Blackburn Rovers have conceded 11 goals in their last two away games at Arsenal & Chelsea so the omens are not good & while we don’t expect Manchester United to be getting 5 or 6, we do expect a very comfortable home victory for Manchester United & they will certainly look to get the goals to kick start their season again.

The outright match markets for this game offer no real punting interest with the long odds-on quote for a Manchester United win so correct score & first goalscorer markets look the way to go for betting value in this match.

Betting Recommendations:

Outright Match Betting: Manchester United to win

Correct Score options: Manchester United 2-0/3-0

First goalscorer each way/Player to score anytime options: Rooney/Berbatov/Owen

Scorecast options: Rooney/Berbatov/Owen score 1st & Man United win 2-0/3-0

Double Result: Manchester United Half Time & Full Time

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