The Pre-Season Friendly Thread

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2-0 final score, a pretty poor performance. Our passing right from the start was awful and the final ball in the final third just as bad. Van Gaal made 7 substitutions I think. I've changed my mind about Johnstone, he's a good keeper but keeps on rushing out of the area. Great when it's timed properly (and to be fair he's only fucked this up once on this tour) but he's going to concede daft goals if he doesn't work on his decision making.

We'd better do better against Spurs

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Only 25,000 seats filled out of 27,000 for United's first pre-season friendly. No surprise though because those tickets unsold will cost you £400 apparently Talk about LA Galaxy taking the piss lol

De Gea

Smalling Jones Blind

Valencia Herrera Carrick Fellaini Lingard

Mata Rashford

And Rashford puts United a goal up after a couple of minutes lol

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0-3 now with 26 minutes gone. Another goal from Rashford and the third from Fellaini. L.A. Galaxy are fielding a second string side for the first half to be fair but I can see us beating the 0-7 score we got a couple of years ago hopefully.

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Bah! Only 0-3 at halftime which is disappointing. L.A. Galaxy's first team should be starting the second half, as well as Lindelof and Lukaku for United.

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0-5 now, goals from Micki and Martial. 73 minutes gone. Lindelof is looking fantastic going forward so far. Loads of pace, good vision and a good passer of the ball.

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Oops! 1-5 now

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2-5 now

We should be 8 or 9 goals up, we've wasted LOADS of good chances.

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2-5 final score, Real Salt Lake next on Monday.

Very impressed with Lindelof so far, but Lukaku had a poor 45 minutes imo.

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Looks like United will be playing 4-3-3 against Real Salt Lake. The starters for the first 45 minutes are:

J Pereira

Fosu-Mensah Lindelof Jones Blind

McTominay Carrick Pogba

Micki Lukaku Lingard


The weather is a bit crazy over there today apparently, they said on MUTV that they've had all 4 seasons in a few hours lol

Looks like it's going to piss down any moment, hopefully not a storm otherwise we could end up seeing the match being abandoned.

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Bollocks, the streams are piss poor for this match.

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Oops. 1-0 Real Salt Lake 

Quite a good game so far, end to end stuff.

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Nice goal from United, Lingard, Lukaku and Micki combining well with a cool finish from Micki.

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Great composure from Lukaku and he gets his first goal for United.

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Valencia got a straight red early on in the second half, daft decision by the ref. It was a yellow. So United played with 10 men at a high altitude, they're going to be knackered after that lol. 1-2 was the final score.

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History to be made in half an hour or so with the first Manchester derby to be played outside the UK after that one in the Far East got cancelled due to that shite pitch.

Their new keeper is making his debut too. Hopefully he's going to be just as shite as Bravo was lol. I still can't believe that Pep signed him tbh given that he previously worked with him and knew how bad a keeper he was.

Here's the United side for the first half:

Dr Gea

Valencia Lindelof Smalling Blind

Micki Herrera Pogba Lingard

Lukaku Rashford

Not sure if he'll be playing 4-4-2 or whether he'll play 4-5-1 with Herrera and Pogba as the two defensive midfielders and Lukaku alone up front, probably the latter.