Good News On Rio Ahead Of Arsenal 2nd Leg

Rio Ferdinand was substituted with three minutes remaining in Wednesday’s 1-0 victory over Arsenal in the Champions League. A stretcher came on for him inititally but in the end he was able to walk off the pitch, obviously in pain.

Rio went straight to hospital in an ambulance with United left to fear he had broken his ribs, which could have ruled him out for the rest of the season. He left hospital with good news though, that nothing was broken, rather was suffering from severe bruising and swelling.

Whilst this will rule him out on Saturday’s match against Middlesbrough, it is very likely he will be able to turn out at the Emirates next week.

Our defender has been given strong painkillers and is under strict instructions to rest up this weekend, with the hope of taking part in United’s training session on Monday before travelling down to London.

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58 Comments

AlphaRS May 1, 2009

@Costas

Karim Benzema of Lyon siad he wanted to go to Real Madrid.
One person pimping himself to Real Madrid is enough for me.
Another would make me wonder where the wisdom in his signature came from.

Tevez is a battler, a scrapper, hard working, never say die, chases of lost causes, does not give the ball away too often. I admire that. That kind of attitude I want from all United players. He has it in abundance.

All 4 English clubs and Barcelona are the main super powers in Europe at the moment. These are the kinds of clubs you don't leave until you are asked to do so. Tevez wants to stay. I couldn't stand the important goals and constant effort put in not be rewarded with a contract.

Ok I won't talk about that anymore. Could have possibly signed Anelka before his move to Chelsea. Probably has a similar attitude to Eto'o though. How world class strikers are out there at the moment? I can't name any!

Colbert May 1, 2009

Fantastic news on Rio, if true.

King Eric May 1, 2009

Keep saying it but Benzema? NO!!!!

Has Tevez come out and said he would like to play in Spain? Heard that this morning on some media source or other. Needs to keep his mouth shut at the minute if so.

Denton has a great point actually abouit the way the back four "play football" like you say Edwins touch is exemplary. Was thinking exactly the same thing the other night. Normally when a defender passes back to the keeper I am very anxious but not with Edwin, not all all.

Great news hopefully on Rio.

Keep saying it but Benzema? NO!!!!

Denton had an excellent point actually about how the back line "play football". Like you say Edwins touch is exemplary. Normally when defenders pass it back I am anxious but not with Edwin, not at all.

Has Tevez come out this morning and said he would like to play in Spain, that is what one media source have reported? If so he needs to keep his mouth shut till the summer and see what happens.

Sorry, did not think my post had saved.

trevor May 1, 2009

Fingers crossed for you rio

So who other than benzma would you recoment king eric? And why?

My Main problem with Tevez is he is small like rooney and for me not as good a combination as Benzma Rooney! -

Benzma is fast, good on the ball & good in the air!

What do you think?

denton davey May 1, 2009

Costas: "The fact is that if Tevez leaves,there aren’t many good strikers out there anymore."

Costas, you and I get our "information" from the papers - how many players do we actually know about ? I remember back in the 1970s, when Bill Shankly was the main man at L'poo, he signed a kid called Kevin Keegan from a third division team for 35,000. No one knew who this kid was - Shankly did !

Scouting players - especially unknowns and/or kids - is not an exact science but look at the research which went into signing Federico Macheda - if Kiko proves to be as good as player as Kevin Keegan then in five years' time you'll be playing trivia games with Carlitos' reputation and long-since forgotten which years he was at Old Trafford.

About Rio - he adds so much confidence to the back line. His game has evolved to the point that he's almost like the Paolo Maldini of his generation. Maldini was the guy who "never left his feet" according to SAF. And there's no higher praise than that. With Rio in the team, the ball retention is much better - I just love it when he runs forward and transitions into attack (did you know that he was a center forward until he went to the West Ham academy ?). His partnership with Vidic is based on the complementarity of their styles - steel/silk. If he's in the first-team on Tuesday that will be a big, big downer for TheArse - here's hoping !

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