KUALA LUMPUR - Touring English Premier League (EPL) champions Manchester United (MU) will field a strong line-up for the friendly match with a Malaysian selection here tomorrow, MU manager Sir Alex Ferguson said Friday.
The match is scheduled for 5.30pm tomorrow at the National Stadium in Bukit Jalil.
"It will be an exciting match. We are looking forward to tomorrow's match," Sir Alex told a news conference here.
He said he would be banking on striker Wayne Rooney now that Christiano Ronaldo and Carlos Teves were no longer in the team. Ronaldo has joined Real Madrid while Teves moved to Manchester City.
"We will try out a few things while we are here," Sir Alex said.
Besides Rooney, Sir Alex will also be banking on midfielders Fererico Macheda, Dimitar Berbatov, Paul Scholes, Darron Gibson, Anderson and also Michael Owen who has just joined MU.
Honour to play MU
The MU manager said he would give every member of the team "a decent run-out" during the 2009 Asia Tour which will take the team also to South Korea and China.
A friendly in Indonesia has been cancelled after bomb blasts today at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta.
As for the Malaysian side, coach K. Rajagobal said it was an honour for the team to play against the top English Premier League team.
"It is an honour for me and a great opportunity to play against Manchester United. The players too are very excited as most of them are MU supporters, and so am I.
"It is great to have MU back in Malaysia. I was in the Malaysian team which played against MU back in 2001. And now, I meet them again but this time as coach of the team," said Rajagobal. - Bernama
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