The event was Paul Scholes’s testimonial in opposition to a New York Cosmos XI and issues have been very totally different at United. Sir Alex Ferguson, after all, was nonetheless supervisor and Scholesy was saying farewell, solely to in the end return on his choice to retire from the sport.
De Gea, newly recruited from Atletico Madrid, performed the primary half earlier than being changed by Anders Lindegaard, and saved a clear sheet as we received 6-0, with Scholes, inevitably, among the many goalscorers. Wayne Rooney, Anderson, Danny Welbeck and Mame Biram Diouf (2) additionally discovered the online, in entrance of the watching Pele and Eric Cantona.
The one Crimson from that fixture nonetheless at Carrington in the intervening time is Jonny Evans, who signed a short-term deal earlier this summer time. The centre-back was one of many substitutes that evening, together with a youthful Paul Pogba, who got here on for Scholes.
