Manchester United’s first pre-season pleasant of the summer season will take them again to Scandinavia for the eighth time within the house of 14 years.
Historically drawing a big fanbase from the area in northern Europe, United have made a behavior of taking part in a recreation on Scandi soil over the previous couple of summers specifically.
Though the primary a part of the membership’s official ‘Tour’ has taken place elsewhere, one-off video games in opposition to quite a lot of native and worldwide opposition has been performed every permissible yr since 2019 – there was no worldwide journey in 2020 or 2021 attributable to Covid-19.
Final summer season, the Pink Devils confronted Rosenborg in Trondheim, with Leeds United, Atletico Madrid and Kristiansund, the latter Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s home-town membership, different opponents for friendlies which have all been performed in Norway within the final six years alone.
This summer season, United will face Leeds once more, having received 2-0 final yr courtesy of targets from children Noam Emeran and Joe Hugill. However will probably be performed at Stockholm’s Strawberry Area, the primary pre-season recreation of the summer season, scheduled for 14:00 BST (15:00 CET) on 19 July.
The sport may also mark United’s first pre-season go to to Sweden since 2016 when Jose Mourinho led the membership to a 5-2 win over Galatasaray in Gothenburg. Mourinho took his group again to Sweden ten months later, going through Ajax in Stockholm to win the Europa League.
The Strawberry Area, albeit often called the Buddies Area on the time, was additionally the venue for that remaining. Eight years on, Luke Shaw and Marcus Rashford are the one surviving United gamers, however Shaw missed the showdown by way of harm and Rashford’s time on the membership might quickly be over. Andre Onana and Matthijs de Ligt did each play in that recreation for Ajax, although.
United’s earlier go to to the identical stadium in Stockholm got here in 2013, a pre-season pleasant in opposition to native facet AIK that completed 1-1 and likewise occurred to be David Moyes’ first recreation in cost on European soil, following an earlier tour of east Asia and Australia.
This summer season, the majority of the pre-season programme will happen in the USA, taking part in three video games throughout America as a part of the Premier League Summer season Collection.
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