Manchester United keeper Ben Foster gets recall against Sunderland

01 October 2009 10:00
Foster came in for criticism following his poor performance in the 4-3 win over Manchester City earlier this month. At the time, there was plenty of speculation Sir Alex Ferguson would drop the former Watford keeper in favour of Poland international Tomasz Kuszczak, who performed creditably on his first appearance of the season against Wolves in the Carling Cup. Instead, Ferguson stood by his man and was rewarded with a clean sheet at Stoke last weekend. Yet Kuszczak was in goal for last night's 2-1 win over German champions Wolfsburg, which led to more speculation that Foster was about to be dumped. However, while the keeper was denied an opportunity to impress watching England coach Fabio Capello, he will get another chance this weekend, as Capello is due back at Old Trafford 24 hours before he names his squad for the World Cup double header against the Ukraine and Belarus. "Tomasz Kuszczak produced a very good performance against Wolves last week and we felt he deserved to play another game," said Ferguson. "It wasn't going to be last Saturday though because we had to give Ben some support after that difficult game against Manchester City. "It was a good opportunity for us to play Tomasz tonight but Ben will play on Saturday."

Source: Telegraph