David Suazo Returns To Inter Training

Inter striker David Suazo has returned to training from a muscular injury.
Inter striker David Suazo has returned to training with his Nerazzurri team-mates after suffering a muscular injury several months ago.

The Honduras international trained separately with Argentine defender Walter Samuel at the Angelo Moratti Sports Centre, the club revealed via their official website today.

Both players have begun a program to return to full fitness as soon as possible. 'La Pantera' was presumed to be on the sidelines for a further two months, but has shown great improvement.

Suazo has not received much game time since joining the Beneamata from Cagliari in 2007, as he has been loaned out to Benfica and Genoa during his tenure.

Inter take on Bari on Thursday evening in Serie A.

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Lazio Coach Edy Reja Content With Hard-Fought Draw Against Milan

Edy Reja believes his side could have done more at Milan, but he settles for a point.
Lazio coach Edy Reja believes his side deserve their point against Milan after battling to avoid an onslaught at San Siro.

His players emerged bruised, but not battered as they escaped from Milan with a point.

"We head back home with a very good point," he told Sky Sport Italia after the game."One cannot expect to go to Milan and play their game.

"Perhaps we could have done something more. In anycase we were good at the back."

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Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson: Two Goals Against Aston Villa Will Help Wayne Rooney

Timing of the goals crucial to victory.
Sir Alex Ferguson praised two-goal Wayne Rooney after the striker bagged a brace to help Manchester United to a 3-1 win over Aston Villa at Old Trafford.

A goal in the first and last minutes of the first half by the England international set United on the path to victory and whilst Darren Bent grabbed a goal back for the visitors, Nemanja Vidic’s second-half strike sealed victory.

Speaking to Sky Sports News after the game, Ferguson praised his striker, who has found goals hard to come by this season, for his contribution.

“It was a marvellous early goal. Wayne [Rooney] capitalises from [Edwin] van der Sar’s fantastic strike of the ball,” he said.

“It was really good vision from Edwin, but what a finish, marvellous finish.

"Goals always help strikers there’s no question about that. But he [Rooney] has always got a great appetite to play, everyone should remember that. It’s an in-bred thing in the boy. He has this great attitude to work and fight and he gets his rewards eventually.”

The United boss also admitted that the timing of the goals also helped his side. Rooney’s opener was timed at just 48 seconds, his second goal came in stoppage time at the end of the first half and United’s third came five minutes after Bent had seemingly dragged Villa back into the game.

“It was a game of good timing, an early goal, one right on half-time and they when they scored the goal we upped the tempo again and scored the third goal,” added Ferguson.

The win maintains United's five-point lead at the top of the table and the Scot urged his side to keep their momentum going.

“I think what happens in the run-in is you keep knocking off the games, if we keep winning, we knock each one off as we go along and eventually you run out of games,” he said.

“The aim is to keep the momentum going, keep the work rate up, we were good tonight but we had to work hard against a good Aston Villa team, and hopefully it gets us where want to be.”

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Arsenal Boss Arsene Wenger Bemoans Roman Abramovich's Renewed Interest In Chelsea Cause

Gunners' manager foretells a Blues summer splurge to match deadline day bonanza.
Arsene Wenger has warned that Roman Abramovich will embark on another transfer spending spree in the summer after re-discovering his interest in football.

The Chelsea owner sanctioned a £75 million splurge in the last minutes of the transfer window on Liverpool’s Fernando Torres, for a British record £50 million, and David Luiz from Benfica.

“It shows you two things,” said Wenger in his post-match press conference. “At Chelsea, for a while, Abramovich is a bit in no-man’s land, where nobody could guess whether he still wanted to invest or not for a long time. But certainly that has changed.

“He has decided to put money into the game. That tells you certainly in the summer more will come. He is back to full investment. Only he can explain why but that’s how you read it from the outside.

“It looked like Abramovich was maybe not as involved anymore, that’s what people said in the newspapers. It looks like Chelsea is back in the market when they were not for a while, which means more is to come in the summer.

Asked about the ramifications Chelsea could face from Uefa’s impending financial fair play regulations, Wenger said: “That’s why I sat in my armchair last night and watched from the outside. Chelsea is a special case like Manchester City is a special case.

“In the morning they announced a £70m loss. In the afternoon, they buy £75m worth of players. Where is the whole logic in that? It is difficult to guess. They officially voted for financial fair play, they signed up for it, but they could explain better what they do.

“They bought a great player [Torres] who has won the World Cup and European Championships. After that it is down to how much you want to pay for the player. Chelsea has the potential to do it.”

Wenger, who did recruit any new blood for Arsenal, admitted he was bewildered by the sums spent by Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City last month after what had been a quiet winter window 12 months previously in the Premier League.

“It goes from one extreme to another,” said the Arsenal manager. “You give money to one club and they spend it again. Football is always like that. The smaller club has always lived like that, getting money from bigger clubs.”

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