yup yup ..., Rooney mengawali musim ini dengan mencetak 1 gol di Wembley saat Community shield hari minggu lalu ke gawang Peter Cech ...
untuk musim 2009/2010 ini Rooney mentargetkan untuk mencetak 25 gol
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Rooney said: “It’s a target which I hope I’m going to reach. I’ve always said that I should score more goals and hopefully I’ll do that this season."
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gimana menurut temen-temen ....
selengkapnya di sini :
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ROO BET I'LL GET 25 GOALS
dailystar.co.uk - 11th August 2009
WAYNE ROONEY is planning a goalscoring explosion to justify Sir Alex Ferguson’s decision to make him Manchester United’s main man.
Rooney has been promised a central role up front this season now that Cristiano Ronaldo is no longer at Old Trafford.
The England striker started as he means to go on with an injury-time equaliser in Sunday’s Community Shield shoot-out defeat to Chelsea.
But the 23-year-old aims to justify his new status as the focal point of United’s attack by banging in 25 goals this season.
Rooney said: “It’s a target which I hope I’m going to reach. I’ve always said that I should score more goals and hopefully I’ll do that this season.
“I like to play through the middle and the manager has come out now and said I am going to play there throughout the season so I’m delighted with that. That’s what I wanted.
“I’m not sure whether he will stick to it. He may change his mind and whatever he says goes.
“But I hope he will play me there for most of the season. If I keep scoring goals I will justify it.”
Rooney does not feel any pressure to fill Ronaldo’s boots – despite the Portuguese winger scoring 67 goals
during his last two seasons with United.
Rooney said: “He was the best player in the world and there were always going to be questions asked when we
lost him. We’ve signed Michael Owen and Antonio Valencia and we’ll probably play a slightly different style.
“But I have had big expectation on me for the last seven years now.
Whether Cristiano is here or not, I would still have those expectations.
“To be honest, I have never looked at myself being the main man. It’s a team game and about the team, not just me.”
Despite Owen’s arrival at Old Trafford, Rooney looks certain to partner Dimitar Berbatov up front, as he did at Wembley on Sunday.
The pair showed flashes of brilliance together against Chelsea, but Berbatov faded and was replaced by Ryan Giggs for the last 15 minutes.
The Bulgarian upset some United fans last season when his poor penalty in the shoot-out contributed to an FA Cup semi-final defeat to Everton.
But Rooney is backing his strike partner to come good and claims the Bulgarian is a man on a mission this season.
He said: “You can see in training, and in our pre-season games, that he’s looking sharper.
"He's looking more determined, tracking back to help the full-backs.
“A lot of time I get told not to track back and to conserve my energy, stay upfield and save myself for when we are attacking.
“Sometimes when I do track back the manager doesn’t like it.
“But Berbatov is certainly better when he’s full of energy and getting touches of the ball.
"He’s definitely working harder and trying to impress.
He’s a brilliant player. In the first half we played well. In the second half Chelsea came back into the game.
“But there were some good moments going forward and maybe we should have scored more goals.”
Ferguson claims the Premier League will be a two-horse race this season but Rooney reckons it will be a wider contest than that.
He said: “Liverpool had a good season last year, Chelsea will always challenge and with Arsenal you never know, they are unbelievable at times and then at other times they are not quite there.
“I’m sure the same four teams will be the main four again but Manchester City have made a lot of signings so we will have to wait and see what happens there.”
Rooney added: “If we needed more players the manager would have done that but I don’t think we need too many changes.
“We’ve won the league for the last three years and got to the Champions League Final again last season so I don’t think we needed five or six players.”
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