Washington (AFP)
Newcomers Senegalese striker Sadio Mane and Dutch central defender Matthijs de Ligt appeared in the Bayern Munich shirt, the German champions in the past ten seasons, in a wide friendly win over DC United 6-2 in Washington, as part of the Bavarian club’s preparations for the new season.
The Senegalese international, coming from Liverpool for nearly 40 million euros, opened the scoring with a penalty kick 5 minutes following the start of the whistle, while defender De Ligt, newly joined from Juventus, for 67 million euros, added the fourth goal for his team from a corner kick two minutes following entering the field. After the break (47).
And he alternately scored the goals of the Austrian Marcel Sabitzer (12), Serge Gnabry (44), the Dutch Joshua Zirtze (51) and Thomas Muller (90 + 1).
The goals of DC United, who recently signed former England international Wayne Rooney and who is going through a difficult period following occupying the last place in the league, were scored by the Norwegian substitutes Skage Simonsen Leland (54) and Theodor Ko Dipetro (83).