The
new Barclays Premier League fixture has been trending since its release
on Tuesday morning as former Manchester United midfielder Quinton
Fortune has described United’s opening five fixtures as “unbelievable.”
Defending
champions United travels to Swansea in the opening weekend of the new
season, beginning August 17; followed by a mouthwatering clash with
Chelsea at Old Trafford, the trip to Merseyside against Liverpool, a
home game against newly-promoted Crystal Palace and the trip to
Manchester City in the space of five weeks.
New
manager David Moyes has got a tough line up of matches in these
fixtures, which could as well culminate the beginning of the battle for
Premier League supremacy.
However,
former South Africa international Fortune believes Chelsea manager Jose
Mourinho should be more worried about the second weekend showdown at
Old Trafford than getting obsessed with Moyes.
“Mourinho has been boasting about his record against United,” Fortune told MUTV. “He always brings it up.
“But
it is a different manager, with a different style of play. If David
Moyes brings the same desire and fighting spirit that he had at Everton I
am sure Mourinho will find it tough. He is playing a completely
different United and I am sure he is worried about that.”
David Moyes Has Got a Tough Line Up of Fixtures in His First Five Weeks in Charge of Manchester United.
Swansea
remains the only team not to have scored a single goal against Everton
during Moyes’ reign at Goodison Park, but that cannot be said of
Mourinho’s Chelsea, who has managed the most games against Moyes’
Everton in the Premier League not to have lost a single encounter.
Palace
has lost both encounter with Everton under Moyes, but their return to
the top tier could prove different. Against City, Moyes has a 55% win
record over the boys from the Blue half of Manchester (W12, D4, L6),
while the Merseyside Reds has rather been difficult for the Scot (W3,
D6, L12).
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