Carling Cup final: Wayne Rooney set to sit out Manchester Uniteds clash with Aston Villa

By Mark Ogden Published: 9:00AM GMT twenty-seven February 2010

No go: Wayne Rooney might not get the possibility to supplement to his idea total Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Sir Alex Ferguson, the Manchester United manager, certified he was deliberation lazy the brazen for Sunday"s Wembley strife with Aston Villa.

Rooney, who has scored nineteen goals in his last nineteen games for United, is fit and has trafficked south with Ferguson"s patrol as they try to urge the prize won on penalties opposite Tottenham last season.

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But notwithstanding the twenty-four year-old rising as a talismanic figure for United given the �80 million sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid last summer, Ferguson is heedful of overworking Rooney at a consequential theatre of the season.

The England brazen has played in each of United"s last seventeen games and has not been complacent given the Champions League feat opposite Wolfsburg in Germany on December 8.

With United chasing Chelsea in the Premier League, the awaiting of Ferguson omission Rooney from any of the club"s last 10 joining games or Champions League fixtures is slim.

And whilst the United physical education instructor is unmotivated by Rooney"s probable effort with England at the World Cup in South Africa, Sunday"s tie opposite Villa would crop up his usually event to rest the player prior to the finish of the made at home campaign.

Ferguson pronounced lazy Rooney "has to be a care simply since we"ve got critical games entrance up, but Wayne is unfortunate to fool around and that"s the problem. He is regularly unfortunate to play.

"He is tough to leave out since he has got the appetite all the time, but I am meditative about the younger ones.

"There are dual or 3 who come in to that category, similar to Darron Gibson, Jonny Evans and Rafa da Silva. They have to be considered. But we wish to win the cup."

Rooney, who was complacent for last season"s Carling Cup final, has scored twenty-seven goals for his bar this season.

Denis Law"s total of 46 goals in all competitions during the 1963-64 debate stays United"s jot down transport in one season, but Ronaldo came close with 42 goals during the 2007-08 season.

But nonetheless Rooney is in the surrounded by of a inclusive strain in front of goal, Ferguson insists it will be a tall sequence for him to even reach Ronaldo"s 42-goal mark.

Ferguson said: "We"ve 10 joining games left to play, hopefully we"ll get 6 European ties and the Carling Cup final. That"s seventeen games.

"A idea a diversion would move Wayne to 44 goals, but it"s tough to think he"ll get that.

"If he gets over 30, I"ll be delighted, and I"ll hang to that. Don"t let"s get greedy. He"s on a good goalscoring detonate and he"s popping up in the right places at the right time. His visualisation in the chastisement box is mending and that"s a good sign."

Ferguson is expected to name Tomasz Kuszczak in idea opposite Villa, with Dimitar Berbatov and, should Rooney be rested, Michael Owen due to involved.

The strife with Villa will be Ferguson"s 27th vital last as a physical education instructor and the Scot admits that the enterprise to win is as heated as ever.

He said: "It"s the same buzz. A last is a final. You can"t assistance but be vehement entrance to a final.

"It"s droll that you have all these finals, but it"s the ones you lose where you ask yourself, "Did I collect the right team? If we usually did this, if usually that" you know?

"We have lots of practice of crater finals, but the most appropriate thing to experience is being at Wembley as it"s a noble occasion."