Ready or Not: Hull City

This will be the 25th match between United and Hull City. United as expected enjoys an overall good record with 16 wins, 3 draws, 5 losses and a +26 goal difference. Our trip will not be easy at all, we have managed only six wins from twelve games with a 0 goal different while travelling to Hull City.

Hull City are on a draw streak with three consecutive draws that came after beating Liverpool 3-1 and enjoy an almost perfect home record with only one loss this season. To neutralize this, United can boost four consecutive wins which incude three clean sheets and have scored nine goals while allowing only one! And don't forget, December is usually United's favorite month. Evidence? Since 1990 United have played on every boxing day expect for 1995 and 2009 recording only one loss and two draws the rest were ALL wins.

Questions, Troubled Kind Evra

A group photo that managed to represent every United fan's reaction after that Saints' goal. Jones for those who couldn't watch it, Evra looks angry, that guy who couldn't believe that we conceded and had to stand and take a closer look, Rafael is hiding, De Gea looks confused and beat, that woman holding her face is definitely crying. Look closer and you'll see your reaction represented here. Kudos to manutd.com photographers for capturing this moment.

 

 

Well, at least we have Januzaj for the next five years and looks like he is on the right track. The kid was voted Man of the match against Southampton which is his second in a row! Moyes and Ed, while we are still into signatures how about getting Rooney to putting one down?

Robin is back into scoring! We can all drink to that.

Robson to Bruno Gomes and everything in between

Captain Robson and his team landed in Kilimanjaro yesterday and as of this morning he is starting doing what brought him and his team to the beautiful land of Tanzania; climbing the greatest Mount Kilimanjaro. I wish I was a tour guide, a help or just a fly in that team but being towns away from Moshi (that's where Mt. Kilimanjaro is) I will just have to settle for stalking following the action through Twitter.

Some accounts that you can follow and keep up with the #KiliTrek: @MU_Foundation, @ThomasCasserlys, @miss_larrisab and the official trek photographer and videographer @j_lester. And of course @ManUtd and @MUFCTanzania for the #Kilitrek and for Man United issues.

And in supporting Robson, manutd.com have dedicated this week to the Captain. For some of us who did not get to see him play, this is a good chance to get to know the longest serving Captain in the history of Manchester United/Newton Heath.

From last night.

Reds marching to Brazil

Until 19th we will just have to be satisfied with seeing the team in pieces as they represent their countries.

Here is who to watch and when:

 

 

Luis Nani - Portugal are a point behind Russia in their group but have one advantage: They play their next two matches at home. Portugal hosts Israel on 11th and Luxemburg on 15th.

Shakhtar Donetsk: A cold point

Picture perfect.

We would all have loved 3 points but a point is not so  bad. As group standings, we are second to Shakhtar but we have same points and same goal difference. On 23rd this month we will host Real Sociedad and Shakhtar will host Bayer Leverkusen.

Our next opponents are yet to win a match. They suffered a 0-2 home defeat to Shakhtar and lost 1-0 to Leverkusen. Bring on Real Sociedad.

Rooney picked another injury during training! It doesn't seem to be serious as Moyes planned to use him as a sub but decided against it as to not risk any further complications. Moyes also promised that Rooney will be ready for a trip to Sunderland this week end. And this time it was Welbeck. Does Welbz have a magic touch like Jones? Only time will tell....

Rio's Tour Diary 2013: Episode 3

Rio's Tour Diary 2013: Episode 2

Rio's tour diary 2013: Episode 1

Kimya Kimya

In the Land of The Red Samurai

Location: Japan

Date: 22nd July 2013.

Smile boys, it doesn't hurt!

    That on the front is definitely Rafael/Fabio!

2012/2013 Report

Most Appearances

Robin Van Persie	48
Michael Carrick	46
Patrice Evra	42
David De Gea	41
Rafael Da Silva	40
Antonio Valencia	40
Danny Welbeck	40

 

 

Top Goal Scorers

Robin van Persie	30
Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez	18
Wayne Rooney	16
Shinji Kagawa	6
Ryan Giggs	5

Most Man of the Match Nominations

Rafael da Silva	19
Robin van Persie	17
Wayne Rooney	17
Michael Carrick	16
Patrice Evra	15

Most Man of the Match Awards

Wayne Rooney	9
Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez	6
Robin van Persie	6
David de Gea	4
Ryan Giggs, Rafael da Silva, Phil Jones, Shinji Kagawa	3

 

Total votes

Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez	62,542
Robin Van Persie	54,184
David De Gea	41,176
Wayne Rooney	37,687
Shinji Kagawa	32,283

 

Most Player of the Month Points 

Robin van Persie	46
Michael Carrick	44
David de Gea	34
Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez	34
Shinji Kagawa	32

 

 

Most Over-all points

Robin van Persie	133
Michael Carrick	115
Wayne Rooney	111
Rafael da Silva	98
David de Gea	86

  

 

Most yellow cards

Paul Scholes	10
Rafael da Silva	8
Wayne Rooney	7
Antonio Valencia	7
Patrice Evra	5

Players Table 2012/2013

This table combines all votes from Man of the Match and Player of the month to determine the best and our favorite players. All votes from manutd.com

The first 11 are our Favorite 11 of the season while the first 5 are nominees for our player of the season.

Last record: May Player of the Month, May 2013

This is the final table for 2012/2013.

	NAME	APP.	NOM. (MoM)	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	MoMth	PTS
1	Robin Van Persie	48	17	6	6	3	2			46	133
2	Michael Carrick	46	16	2	6	3	4			44	115
3	Wayne Rooney	37	17	9	4	3	1			22	111
4	Rafael Da Silva	40	19	3	2	4	8		2	28	98
5	David De Gea	41	11	4	3	2	1	1		34	86
6	Javier Hernandez	36	7	6	1					34	75
7	Ryan Giggs	32	13	3	2	3	3	2		18	70
8	Phil Jones	24	11	3	2	3	2	1		22	70
9	Rio Ferdinand	34	13	2	3	2	1	4	1	16	68
10	Patrice Evra	42	15		1	4	4	6		20	65
11	Tom Cleverley	32	12	1	3	4	3	1		12	60
12	Shinji Kagawa	26	5	3	2					32	60
13	Jonny Evans	30	13			4	7	2		12	53
14	Nemanja Vidic	23	10	1	2	5	1	1		8	49
15	Anderson	26	6	2	3	1				8	39
16	Antonio Valencia	40	6	1	2	2	1			10	37
17	Danny Welbeck	40	9		1	3	3	2		4	34
18	Paul Scholes	21	4	1	3					10	31
19	Alexander Buttner	13	8	2	1	1	2	2			31
20	Chris Smalling	22	5	1		1	3				19
21	Ashley Young	23	4		1	1	2				15
22	Luis Nani	21	3	1		1	1				13
23	Nick Powell	6	2	1		1					10
24	Darren Fletcher	10	2		1			1			7
25	Lindegaard	13	1			1					4
26	Michael Keane	2	1				1				3
27	Wootton	4	1				1				3