Manchester United (herefollowing referred to as Manchester United) in the English Premier League (EPL), led by new manager Eric Ten Haach (52, the Netherlands), defeated Liverpool in the first game of the pre-season without Cristiano Ronaldo.
Manchester United defeated Liverpool 4-0 in a pre-season friendly at the Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand on the 12th (Korean time).
Ten Haach, who led the Dutch professional football Eredivisie four times and joined Manchester United as the successor of Ralph Langnick (64, Austria), took a pleasant victory from the first match he took over.
It was a pre-season game for Manchester United, who faced two matches in the EPL in the 2021-2022 season and lost a total of 0-9.
Manchester United dominated from the start of the game.
In the 12th minute of the first half, Liverpool’s 18-year-old prospect Isaac Mabaya took advantage of a mistake and secured the ball from the box, and Jadon Sancho opened the scoring with his right foot.
An unstable ball handling by Liverpool’s defense in the 30th minute led to Manchester United’s goal once more.
Fred lobed the ball that flowed into the penalty tee in a pre-nuptial situation, and crossed Alisson’s height with a lob and shook the net.
After 3 minutes, Anthony Martial, who pressed forward, seized the ball from the right flank and sprinted to the front of the goalkeeper, calmly chipping in and scoring the third goal.
United scored three goals in the first half alone, and in the 31st minute of the second half, centre-back Eric Bai attempted a forward dribble from the rear and had a chance to counterattack.
20-year-old Uruguayan prospect Facundo Felistri exploded his fourth goal following a 2-1 pass and made the score 4-0.
Liverpool’s ace Mohammad Salah’s left footed shot from the right corner of the penalty box towards the opposite post hit the post in the 42nd minute of the second half, and Liverpool swallowed the disappointment.
The ball, which hit the goal post, fell in front of Darwin “Young Gun” Nunez of Uruguay’s national football team, who will face Bentuho at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, but the shot went wide.
Meanwhile, Cristiano Ronaldo, who has recently been rumored to be breaking up with Manchester United, did not participate in the team’s pre-season overseas tour.
According to ESPN, an American sports media, it was counted that 5248 local fans visited the stadium on the day of Ronaldo’s ‘no-show’.
Manchester United are now moving to Melbourne, Australia, where they will face Melbourne Victory, an Australian professional footballer, on the 15th.
After that, he will stay in Melbourne and play a game once morest Crystal Palace on the 19th, then move to Perth, Western Australia, to face Aston Villa on the 23rd.
Also, following playing an evaluation match once morest Atlético Madrid, a Spanish professional footballer, in Oslo, Norway on the 30th, they return to their home stadium, Old Trafford, on the 31st to play the last friendly match of the pre-season with Rayo Vallecano, a Spanish professional footballer.
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