Saha to miss Watford game

Louis Saha will miss Manchester United’s Barclays Premiership encounter with Watford after failing to recover from a knee injury.

Alex Ferguson had hoped the French striker would be available to face the rock bottom Hornets – but Saha will only return to training in the morning and has an outside chance of making Sunday’s trip to Tottenham.

Wayne Rooney was due to be among the substitutes but may start after his two-goal salvo against Portsmouth at the weekend, while Cristiano Ronaldo returns to the squad after a brief break in Dubai.

Team from: Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Neville, Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, Silvestre, O’Shea, Evra, Heinze, Park, Fletcher, Scholes, Carrick, Giggs, Richardson, Ronaldo, Rooney, Larsson, Solskjaer.