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Charity Shield 2008

Manchester United v Portsmouth

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With less than two weeks to go until the start of the football season in England the annual traditional curtain raiser ‘The Charity Shield’ takes place this Sunday at the all new Wembley with last season’s Premiership winners Manchester United locking horns with the FA Cup winners Portsmouth.
The game itself should be very entertaining with two very attack minded teams going at each other, with Ronaldo’s injured ankle keeping him out of the Man-Utd side this game could be a lot closer than most people are suggesting.

Portsmouth’s new strike force of Crouch and Defoe is on paper one of the best forward lines in the Premiership, Crouch who during the summer joined Portsmouth from Liverpool was manager Redknapp’s top target and when you consider the potential of his new Little and large strike force it really must be a good time to support the south coast club and with them both likely to figure on Sunday you can be sure they will give the defenders of Man-Utd something to think about.

Prediction
As I have already said I expect this to be a very tight affair and just because you are allowed to make more than the normal amount of subs in this game I expect Man-Utd’s strength in depth to tell in the end and with this I think they will just nick it by the odd goal 1-0,2-1.