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Gerrard's inswinger is nodded on towards the far side and Liverpool retain possession via a throw inside United's third.
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Shaw's energy, for an unfit player, has been pretty good. He checks inside and passes to Rooney, who is lazily shoved off the ball by Gerrard. Free-kick United, 25 yards from goal.
View ArticleInto the wall
Rooney was the only man who was going to take that but the curler was easily blocked. Gerrard has now nastily hacked Young down yet avoided a yellow card. Free-kick to United inside Liverpool's third.
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Mata curls it in and the ball gets hold up at the edge. Fletcher's barely backheels the ball and Liverpool eventually clatter the ball down the field and into De Gea's path.
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The game's hit its lull - the pace has, understandably, dropped and there have been a few stoppages for inconsequential throws. Hernandez wins a free-kick on the far left-hand side after Kelly barges...
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United play themselves into trouble again and Sterling goes down inside the area but is told to get up. United have not looked convincing at the back this evening after a few good displays. Evans and...
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Sakho clears Mata's inswinger and the ball pinballs around for a couple of seconds before Liverpool clear their lines. Young then sweeps in another cracking cross but Simon Mignolet dives to punch the...
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Shaw roars forward and picks out Rooney, who holds onto the ball long enough to get a shot off but he tries to be too clever switching the play and his clipped cross is badly underhit.
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Liverpool's tireless pressing is successfully squeezing the life out of United when they hold onto the ball too long without progressing. Herrera's conceded another foul but the referee keeps the...
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Martin Kelly capitalises on a loose ball, humiliates Darren Fletcher and lets fly from 20-odd yards but drags the ball well wide.
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Mata's long ball finds Hernandez, who traps the ball impressively and is allowed inside onto his right but his shot is blocked. Sterling is soon on the ball, terrorising United again, but his shot...
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Rooney switches the ball to Young on the right again. He feints to get same space up against Johnson but his delivery lets him down on this occasion and it's an easy catch for Mignolet.
View ArticleHalf-time: Manchester United 0-1 Liverpool
Liverpool deservedly ahead at the break. They've looked the more threatening - and comfortable - in this friendly whilst United have created very little against a flaky defence.
View ArticleSecond-half underway
United kick-off after the half-time light show... Forget about a half-time raffle... Miami knows how to put on a show. #mutour pic.twitter.com/5uBmxSeiI2— Manchester United (@ManUtd) August 5, 2014
View ArticleTyler Blackett is on for United
Jonny Evans has gone off. Tom Cleverley has replaced Darren Fletcher.
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The second-half isn't two minutes old and Smalling is already guilty of a heavy pass that puts United on the back foot. Fortunately for him, Liverpool's through ball is hit just as hard as his...
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Carless from Herrera, who plays a hospital pass to Mata, Gerrard nips in, lays the ball off to Lambert but his effort from the left-hand side of the area is tame.
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Great play from Coutinho again as he opens up the United defence. Sterling gives Jones twisted blood, cuts inside and unleashes a shot that deflects off Smalling, leaving De Gea beaten. But it sails...
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Brilliant surge forward from Shaw again, but Rooney's cross is harmless. Now the yellow card is finally shown - and somewhat harshly - to Luke Shaw, whose transgression is unhelpfully not replayed by...
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Lambert slides the ball through to Coutinho but Blackett reads his move and prods the ball out of his path just as the Brazilian was shaping up to shoot.
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Herrera won the ball in the centre, played the ball wide quickly to Javier Hernandez and he crossed to the far post for Rooney to sidefoot past Mignolet on the volley with his left foot. Skrtel was...
View ArticleThe irony
Usually, it would be Rooney crossing for Hernandez but not tonight. The Mexican's play outside the box has generated deserved criticism during his time at United but he showed brilliant perception...
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Cleverley's crossfield pass found Shaw, his reverse pass missed Rooney, Mata hit it first time, it deflected off Sakho and Mignolet had no chance. Great response from United.
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Coutinho turns and tries to play Henderson in down the right but Smalling is alert to the danger and mops up.
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Jones, minus the ball, hares down the pitch and causes Mignolet to punt the ball into touch. United have been much more aggressive this half and, as Herrera displayed for the first goal, quicker on the...
View ArticleTriple Liverpool substitution
Joe Allen, Rickie Lambert and Steven Gerrard make way for Lucas Leiva, Jordan Ibe and Emre Can.
View ArticleGOAL
No goal! Young's cross pinged onto the stanchion from about 40 yards and was tapped in by Rooney. After consultation with his linesman, the referee correctly disallowed the goal.
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Herrera concedes another foul and Johnson hares down the left but is blocked by Jones. United are about to make two more substitutions; Shinji Kagawa and Nani replace goal creator Javier Hernandez and...
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Nani will play up front beside Rooney with Kagwa just behind the pair. Jordan Ibe goes on a mazy run that worries United's defence on the perimeter of the penalty area but he makes hardly any progress...
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Rooney attempts a one-two with Kagawa but the attempted through ball from the Japanese isn't clean and Sakho intervenes. Certainly has the hallmarks of a friendly now following the slew of...
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75 min
Rooney is furious after Skrtel bangs him in the midriff with a high foul but doesn't win a free-kick. Liverpool were never going to kick the ball out for an Evertonian United man, and when the move...
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That's twice now De Gea has kicked a dead ball straight into touch in an effort to find Shaw. Coutinho, possibly Liverpool's best performer tonight, has been replaced by Swedish teenager Kristoffer...
View ArticleUnited substitution
Jesse Lingard, so impressive on tour last year, replaces Ander Herrera. Lingard's been around for ages but is still yet to make his senior debut for the Reds.
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Lovely link-up play between Shaw, Rooney and Kagawa as the Japanese is released on the left. He pings the ball low into the box and someone, maybe Rooney, makes the faintest of contact as the chance...
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Odd one from Rooney, who regains the ball near the halfway line yet chooses to try and play the ball all the way back to De Gea. He succeeds in only gifting Liverpool a corner, Henderson's cross should...
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Brilliant, gamely running from Henderson down the right as he somehow manages to get a cross in only no one is anywhere near the six-yard box to capitalise. The ball travels across to Sterling, who...
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Van Gaal might have a word with De Gea, whose distribution has been uncharacteristically poor this half, after he balloons another kick out. It's bound to happen occasionally under Van Gaal's tutelage...
View ArticleYellow card for Wayne Rooney
It was a deliberate trip on Sterling inside the centre circle and the striker accepts his punishment without a murmur.
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Wonderful football form United down the right. Cleverley clipped it into Young, he flicked it on for Nani back to Cleverley, who played it over the top for Young. He crossed, Kagawa couldn't control...
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Young, impressive again, wins a throw inside Liverpool's third. Unsurprisingly, he looks shattered, but it'll be worth it. For the time being, his United career should be safe.
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Sterling, who's faded, hits a cross over everybody as the players wait for the final shrill. It's been a good workout for both sets of players.
View ArticleFull-time: Manchester United 3-1 Liverpool
Five games, five wins and one (unimportant) trophy for Louis van Gaal in the United States.
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