Man Utd v Inter Milan

Man Utd v Inter Milan
Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has been passed fit for Wednesday's Champions League return leg against Inter Milan at Old Trafford. He limped out of Saturday's FA Cup tie at Fulham with an ankle injury but returned to training on Tuesday. Manager Sir Alex Ferguson confirmed Ferdinand and John O'Shea, back after a heel problem, will play as United look to progress after a goalless first leg. "They both trained for the first time today and that was important," he said. Ferdinand should partner Nemanja Vidic in central defence, with O'Shea filling the right-back slot in the continued absence of Gary Neville, Wes Brown and Rafael da Silva. But the remainder of Ferguson's squad are available for selection. Ferguson, who watched his side keep their quintuple hopes alive with a 4-0 win at Fulham in the Cup quarter-finals, believes concentration holds the key to overcoming Inter. Ferguson has only won one of his 13 encounters with Jose Mourinho, and expects his Portuguese counterpart to indulge in some motivational gambits in his pre-match media conference on Tuesday. But the Old Trafford supremo is happy to let his players do the talking for him on Wednesday. "Jose is magnetic in terms of press attention, he can be outrageous and very entertaining," said Ferguson. "He's terrific at all that, I enjoy watching him on television but there's nothing he can do once the players cross the line. Then it becomes a matter of individual concentration and I trust my players to do their jobs on the pitch." Inter have only two fit centre-backs after losing Marco Materazzi and Nicolas Burdisso to injury in the first half of their 2-0 victory over Genoa. "Christian Chivu, Walter Samuel, Materazzi and Burdisso are out," Mourinho confirmed ahead of his side's trip to Manchester. Man Utd (from): Van der Sar, Foster, Kuszczak, O'Shea, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evans, Evra, Eckersley, Fabio, Ronaldo, Nani, Fletcher, Gibson, Carrick, Anderson, Giggs, Scholes, Park, Berbatov, Rooney, Tevez, Welbeck.

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