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Sto­ke City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1, Brit­an­nia Sta­dium, Eng­lish Pre­mier Lea­gue, Septem­ber 24, 2011. Man­chester Uni­ted re­mained on top of the ta­ble des­pite be­ing held to a dis­ap­point­ing 1-1 draw ag­ainst Sto­ke City. Lu­is Nani put Uni­ted in front in the 27th min­ute of pro­ceed­ings be­fore Pe­ter Crouch equal­ised for The Pot­ters sev­en min­utes in­to the sec­ond half.

Key play­ers Mi­chael Car­rick, Jon­athan Evans, and Way­ne Roo­ney were all not­able ab­sent­ees from Sir Al­ex Ferguson´s Man­chester Uni­ted te­am which could on­ly man­age a 1-1 draw ag­ainst To­ny Pulis´s Sto­ke City at Brit­an­nia Sta­dium. Sir Al­ex Fer­guson: “Man­chester Uni­ted ex­per­i­enced a night­mare train­ing ses­sion on Fri­day wi­th Mi­chael Car­rick, Jon­athan Evans, and Way­ne Roo­ney all pulling up. Evans tho­ught that he might be all-right, but in the warm-up he was of no use so we had to make that change. Then we lost Javi­er Her­nandez and the pen­et­ra­tion and speed he gives us, but we still had chances to win the mat­ch.” Sto­ke City Te­am: As­mir Be­gov­ic, Andy Wilkin­son, Ry­an Shaw­cross, Jon­athan Woodgate, Rory De­lap, Marc Wil­son, Mat­thew Eth­er­ing­ton, Jer­maine Pen­nant, Glenn Whelan, Jon­athan Wal­ters, Pe­ter Crouch. Sub­stitutes: Tho­mas Sor­ensen, Ro­bert Huth, Ry­an Shot­ton, Mat­thew Up­son, Wil­son Pala­cios, Dean White­head, Camer­on Jerome. Man­chester Uni­ted Te­am: Da­vid de Gea, Rio Fer­dinand, Phil Jones, An­tonio Va­lencia, Ash­ley Young, Pat­rice Ev­ra, Oli­veira An­der­son, Dar­ren Fletch­er, Lu­is Nani, Di­m­it­ar Ber­batov, Javi­er Her­nandez. Sub­stitutes: An­ders Linde­gaard, Fa­bio da Silva, Ry­an Gig­gs, Ji-Sung Park, Fe­d­erico Ma­cheda, Mi­chael Owen, Dan­ny Welbeck.

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