Manchester United 3 – Crystal Palace 1, a sign of a good season for Ten Hag?
Manchester United sniffed a lot of confidence from their victory against Crystal Palace this morning making it three pre-season wins from three matches, taking their goals tally to 11.
Anthony Martial, the forgotten Frenchman, who has scored in all three games since the start of the pre-season tour profited from an excellent close control and a precise first-half cross from Diogo Dalot to score the first goal against Palace.
United added two superb team goals after half-time. Martial exchanged passes with Jadon Sancho before finding Donny van de Beek, whose low cut-back was steered into the far corner by Marcus Rashford.
Martial provided the assist for Sancho after good work from Fred and Rashford, with the former Borussia Dortmund forward running beyond the Palace defence before applying a smart finish.
The one glaring negative was the manner in which Palace scored their goal as United keeper David de Gea, who had taken the captain’s armband after Ten Hag replaced all his outfield players, somehow allowed a soft downward header from Joel Ward to squirm in.
Not too bad for United though, but Nineteen-year-old Will Fish, who flew out to replace Axel Tuanzebe after the Bangkok leg of the trip, was sent off in the final stages for bringing down Victor Akinwale when he was the last man.
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