Rooney should be fit for the weekend

Man Utd manager Alex Ferguson told the club’s website : “Wayne should be ready for Saturday’s game against Blackburn, we’re quite confident of that, and he may have a slight chance of being fit for a place on the bench on Wednesday.”

Sir Alex made seven changes to his starting line-up at Pride Park, leaving Carlos Tevez on the bench and both Michael Carrick and Dimitar Berbatov out of his squad entirely, but confirmed none of the changes were injury-enforced.

“Everyone’s fit,” the Reds boss added. “We had Wednesday’s game in mind and that’s why we rested Carlos Tevez today.”