Manchester United travel to the Stadium of Light late on Saturday afternoon knowing that a symbolic steadying of the ship is in order to ensure a bad start does not become a disaster. On the face of it, this seems a perfect time to play the Black Cats, a team who have only picked up 3 points in there last 10 Premier League games, scoring only 8 goals in the same period. This was however, with the eclectic talents of Paolo Di Canio at the helm and Kevin Ball seems to have restored a bit of peace to the side, making them dangerous opponents. Its obtuse to say that Manchester United have been poor of late, being totally outclassed (v Manchester City), uncreative (v West Brom) or adopting a siege mentality v (Shakhtar). Its common knowledge that this is a team in need of change, ranging from the extreme to the subtle. I am also going in to this article presuming Wayne Rooney will make a recovery for the game.
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