Manchester United 4:1 Melbourne Defeat (Fri 15th July, 11:05 UK time)

[Samid]

A bit anticlimactic but just days after lifting the prestigious Bangkok Century Cup, Man Utd will play their first friendly of the season.

Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
Kick off time: 20:05 local, 11:05 UK
Channel: MUTV

 

[KiD MoYeS]

Can we not play Liverpool every week?

 

[Pronewbie]

This is for the undisputed champion of Asia Pacific title.

 

[BarstoolProphet]

After finally clinching the signing of FDJ, Eriksen and Martinez, I'm hoping to see this starting XI:

Heaton

Dalot
Varane
Lindelöf
Shaw

Fred
McTominay
Bruno

Sancho
Martial
Rashford

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Gonna miss this one but should be alright.

 

[horsechoker]

Bit pessimistic to predict a Melbourne victory

 

[Rozay]

Hope Laird, Hannibal, Garner and perhaps Garnacho get to feature in this one.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

A bit anticlimactic but just days after lifting the prestigious Bangkok Century Cup, Man Utd will play their first friendly of the season.

 

[IrishRedDevil]

Hopefully get to see Nani.

 

[Revaulx]

Nani! Would be great if he plays.

 

[bosnian_red]

Guessing that we'll see more blended teams here? Though maybe not. Van Gaal if I recall always started with his strongest team to build familiarity, so could be Ten Hag does the same.

 

[Yagami]

11am on a Friday? Love it!

 

[InfiniteBoredom]

Just my luck that after 10 years in Melbourne, the summer I left is the moment Utd go there.

Victory is also in their off-season, they missed out on the title last year to Melbourne City (City’s feeder team) and bombed out unceremoniously in the Cup semis to a team that could barely muster a 3000 attendance. So we are either giving them a shellacking or they will be super up for it and give us a proper runout. It’s winter Down Under though so at least there wont be any dehydration or heatstroke.

 

[RedTiger]

Melbourne are gonna be proper up for this, should be a good friendly.

 

[chb23]

Anyone know which hotel united will stay in?

 

[Mickson]

De Gea
Laird, Lindelof, Varane, Malacia
Iqbal, Fred
Sancho, Bruno, Rashford
Martial

Please.

 

[dutchred]

De Gea
Laird, Lindelof, Varane, Malacia
Iqbal, Fred
Sancho, Bruno, Rashford
Martial

Please.

would like to see Hannibal at some point

 

[Mickson]

would like to see Hannibal at some point

Yeah and Garnacho. I completely forgot about him tbh, interesting that EtH was using Savage and Iqbal instead.

 

[GazTheLegend]

Bit pessimistic to predict a Melbourne victory

Last season I started thinking we'd changed our name to "Manchester United thrashed" to be fair

 

[Bwuk]

I'd like to see a bit more of a blended team to start with. Garnacho to get a chance.

Heaton
Laird - Varane - Bailly - Malacia
Garner - Hannibal
Sancho - Donny - Garnacho
Martial​

 

[Adam-Utd]

Yeah and Garnacho. I completely forgot about him tbh, interesting that EtH was using Savage and Iqbal instead.

I suspect he will give Hannibal 30/45 mins this time and one of savage/iqbal will sit this one out. We just have too many players on tour for all of them to play every match.

 

[sglowrider]

 

[Crashoutcassius]

Personally think we need to be starting whatever team will start in the premiership not random youth players. This is valuable prep time.

 

[clarkydaz]

scoring 4 against Liverpool will be a great boost for the young lads, give them real confidence for a result against Melbourne

 

[horsechoker]

Ten Hag's eerste echte test

 

[Adisa]

Want to see Hannibal.

 

[buchansleftleg]

This is the sort of game were we will really miss the influence of Ronaldo.

If Nani gets a scoring opportunity for Melborne he'd just pass it straight to Ronaldo on impulse if CR7 was on the pitch.

 

[horsechoker]

This is the sort of game were we will really miss the influence of Ronaldo.

If Nani gets a scoring opportunity for Melborne he'd just pass it straight to Ronaldo on impulse if CR7 was on the pitch.

Or do this

 

[Stobzilla]

Assuming de Gea is not fit.

Kovar

Laird
Bailly
Maguire
Shaw

Iqbal
Fred

Chong
Bruno
Sancho

Martial

2nd half

Bishop

Dalot
Varane
Lindelof
Telles

Hannibal
Savage

Amad/Pellistri
Donny
Elanga

Rashford

 

[VanDeBank]

Maguire is back I think. I can't see him not starting.

Assuming de Gea is not fit.

Why? I thought the Heaton sub was planned?

 

[Stobzilla]

Maguire is back I think. I can't see him not starting.

Why? I thought the Heaton sub was planned?

Even if it was, de Gea seemed to go off with a clear problem in his right leg, after the presser today I think we can assume he is fit so that is something.

 

[Sidstar1991]

Think after such a cool performance against liverpool in the first friendly the guys will feel good right now. Hopefully its a good performance and Iqbal plays and performs well. Hope to see continued improvement.

 

[Desert Eagle]

Maguire is back I think. I can't see him not starting.

Why? I thought the Heaton sub was planned?

ETH has said Maguire will probably get a half of football. Wanna see Garner and Hannibal get good minutes as well.

 

[sglowrider]

Did they sell out the MCG this time?

 

[dutchred]

Is Garner fit for this game?

 

[pocco]

Does anybody know if they'll re-run the full game on MUTV on friday evening?

 

[Dempsey19]

Does anybody know if they'll re-run the full game on MUTV on friday evening?

7.30pm Friday evening according to the TV guide.

 

[Momochiru]

where is the presser, looked everywhere and couldn't find it

 

[HBFSTR00]

where is the presser, looked everywhere and couldn't find it

 

[Tibs]

Hope that the two teams that play each half are more balanced, not one strong and one significantly weaker.

But another win for ETH hopefully, quad is on