Match Preview: Blackpool vs. United

Head-to-head

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  A United vs. Blackpool game hasn’t happened since the 1974/75 season, when both teams were in the second tier. United beat Blackpool 4-0 at home and 3-0 away en route to winning the championship, and promotion back to the top flight.
  
  


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  The last top-flight game between the two came in the 1970/71 season. Both games finished 1-1.
  
  

Blackpool

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  The home side have lost four of their last five league games – and five of the last six in all competitions.
  
  


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  Blackpool have scored and conceded in all of their home matches this season.
  
  


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  DJ Campbell has scored five goals in his last six Blackpool appearances.
  
  

Manchester United

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  At the same stage of the season, United are four points short of Arsenal's ‘invincible’s’ squad of 2003/04. We are on 13 wins and nine draws from 22 games (48 points), compared with Arsenal’s 15 wins and seven draws (52).
  
  


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  We’ve now gone 27 Premier League matches without losing, only two matches short of our record 29 game unbeaten run between December 1998 and October 1999.
  
  


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  Berbatov, with 17 league goals this season, has only scored two away.
  
  


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  United have won only two of 10 Premier League away matches this season – vs. Stoke in October and West Brom on New Year's Day.
  
  


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  If selected, Wayne Rooney will make his 300th appearance for the club.
  
  

Doubtful:

Carrick (ankle), Ferdinand (groin).

Last league line-up vs Birmingham City (and FTT ratings):

Van der Sar 7; O'Shea 7, Vidic 6, Smalling 7, Evra 7; Nani 7, Anderson 8, Carrick 6, Giggs 7; Rooney 8, Berbatov 10.