The Pre-Season Friendly Thread

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2-1 at halftime, great performance from United in the first half. The better side by far, have looked pretty solid at the back and Shaw  and Young were tearing them apart on the left. Darmian not as good going forward as he was during the first match but he has still had his moments.

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The second half has been a lot tighter and a little scrappy but Pereira gets goal number 3. A patient build up but the Earthquakes's defending could have been better. 3-1.

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3-1 final score. They played a lot more defensively during the second half, a much less open game than the first half. Still a good runrun around to raise fitness levels.

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Match against Barcelona kicking off at 9pm tonight. Will probably give an indication of who he's going to play against Spurs. The squad will be split into two again, one half playing 60 minutes and the other playing 30 minutes.

Going to be interesting to see if De Gea starts and how long he's going to play for. He may be the exception to that rule above and play 45 minutes perhaps..?

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Team news:

De Gea

Darmian Jones Blind Shaw

Schneiderlin Carrick Young

Mata Roonster Memphis

Could be 4-3-3, 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 with two defensive midfielders.

Going to be interesting to see how the game goes.

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Barcelona hit the post, later produced a great save from De Gea. United looking dangerous down the left, win a corner and the Roonster's bonce puts United a goal ahead.

Great game so far, really open.

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Think Memphis may have had a slight strain on his hamstring. Darmian was down injured for a bit but hopefully he's okay to continue. After a shakey first 5 minutes or so at the back we're now looking pretty solid. Fantastic game so far.

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Both okay.

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Very strong last 5 minutes from Barcelona, they probably deserve to go in ahead on balance of play but United have defended well for the most part.

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Lingard gets number two. A really well worked goal from our youngsters, great build up and a good finish.

Mostly the same changes as the previous two matches apart from Valencia and Fellaini coming on.

Major changes from Barcelona too now, the pace of Lingard, Wilson and Pereira is causing them all sorts of problems.

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Barcelona got one back, cracking volley from Rafinha...then 45 seconds later Adnan makes it 3-1. We certainly rode our luck at times, they hit the woodwork three times. Plenty of positives to take from this game and the other two games too - Darmian has been great both defensively and going forward, despite a dodgy game against Club America Blind has been looking good as a central defender, Shaw and Young are going to create LOADS of sides major problems with their pace and Memphis has been looking amazing.

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United kicking off against PSG in half an hour. Team news:

De Gea

Darmian Jones Blind Shaw

Carrick Schweinsteiger

Mata Memphis Young

Roonster

Just one change, Schweinsteiger for Schneiderlin.

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Van Gaal is limiting himself to just 3 substitutions for this game, he'll be taking off Schweinsteiger and putting on Schneiderlin at halftime because his injury has interfered with his time playing. I'm expecting the same line-up and formation against Spurs that we had for the start of the match against Barcelona.

And if we win tonight we win the mickey mouse trophy again.

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Bollocks. 1-0 down. It's been an even game so far too. The movement of the Roonster and Memphis is causing them all sorts of problems.

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Shite. 2-0 now, lovely goal too. Bloody Zlatan