So that’s it from here. The International Champions Cup still has many, many games remaining for those who simply can’t wait a couple of weeks for these games to mean something.
The biggest is tomorrow night, when Lyon takes on the short-handed North Carolina Courage.
If we get a photo of Shaqiri’s goal, we’ll add it. Other than that, see you next time.
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FINAL: Liverpool 4-1 Manchester United
Not the sort of game to draw any sort of conclusions. Both teams had several absentees, of course, and United had more than Liverpool.
But United got absolutely nothing from this one aside from Andreas Pereira’s free-kick beauty. Liverpool ran wave after wave of attackers at the United defense, and even if one of the two penalties was a bit dodgy, there can be no complaints about the Sturridge goal and Shaqiri’s ... well, can you have a goal of the year candidate in preseason?
90 min: We’ll have 1 minute of stoppage time.
Did we mention Shaqiri scored on an astounding bicycle kick?
88 min: Sturridge took exception to something. There’s an argument at midfield.
87 min: Let’s see ... Mane, Salah, Firmino and Shaqiri? Can they all start?
United finally touches the ball, thanks to the keeper rolling it out to a defender.
85 min: A timely piece of defending to prevent a fifth Liverpool goal.
Did we mention that Shaqiri scored on a magnificent bicycle kick?
Tempted not to say anything else. Surely nothing that happens from this point will top that.
GOAL: Liverpool 4-1 Manchester United (Shaqiri 82)
A flurry of chances, and Shaqiri scores on the most difficult of them on a BICYCLE kick.
80 min: We’re going to see Joshua Bohui for Manchester United, even though we wasn’t listed in the lineups we saw earlier. Also, 17-year-old Angel Gomes is in.
79 min: Back the other way, and Curtis Jones is in a foot race with United’s Chong. Chong wins.
Shot count so far: Liverpool 13, United 3. Two of United shots were on goal -- a free kick drilled marvelously in the net, and a hurried shot that was rather tame.
76 min: CHANCE, and for a change, it’s Manchester United, giving Alexi a run against Nathaniel Phillips. But the Liverpool academy defender holds his ground well and deflects it for a corner kick.
The only Liverpool subs remaining are Markovic and Origi, though they’d have to remove someone who’s only been on for a short time.
Manchester United still have Shaw, Williams, Gomes, Hamilton, Garner and Greenwood available.
GOAL: Liverpool 3-1 Manchester United (Ojo pen 74)
The attacker takes an eternity to walk toward the ball, then drills it in the left-side netting past the bewildered Pereira.
72 min: To recap recent action -- Liverpool continue to attack, and Manchester United do not.
And ... PENALTY! Robertson falls in the United box, and ... do we have VAR? That looks fishy. Herrera is the alleged culprit.
Liverpool lineup now, in no particular order:
Kelleher, Chirivella, Gomez, Robertson, Grujic, Shaqiri, Phillips, Sturridge, Woodburn, Jones, Ojo.
Meanwhile, Mata’s off, and Chong is on. We were told he was on earlier.
And it’s a debut for Fred.
69 min: CHANCE for Liverpool, and again it’s Sturridge, who curls one with his left foot that nearly goes in at the far post. Pereira would’ve stood little chance.
Also in the inbox: “Senior Technical Writer/Editor sought ...”
... oh, sorry, that apparently isn’t related to the proceedings here. Will that goal force Manchester United to throw numbers forward? Will 16-year-old Mason Greenwood come in and score the equalizer?
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GOAL: Liverpool 2-1 Manchester United (Sturridge 66)
Excellent hold-up play from Shaqiri, and he puts it back to Sturridge. Yes, Sturridge. His first touch of the game is an 18-yarder that clips the inside of the post and goes in.
“As a Michigander, a soccer fan (to use the US parlance), and a University of Michigan alumnus, it’s great to see the big house hosting some real football,” writes Timothy Borst. “Is it just me, though, or are these American-football fields more narrow than your average English/European pitch? It seems to me that even the old White Hart Lane was wider.”
I usually look for the 10-yard mark on the end line, and I don’t see one. It appears one was painted over? Not a good sign.
Meanwhile, Liverpool make 5-6 substitutions. Sturridge and Jones are in.
63 min: Immediately back the other way, and Ojo puts the ball across the goal. Camacho heads it back to the middle, but no one’s there.
62 min: Liverpool concede a free kick, which is a bad idea because it’s the only way Manchester United seem likely to score. This one finds the boot of Alexis Sanchez, but Kelleher isn’t wrong-footed by the deflection.
Let’s look for a photo and see what happens ...
Well, we got a pitch invader ...
58 min: Another optimistic ball from Liverpool, but this one yields an awkward collision between Joel Pereira and a defender.
We’re told the crowd is 105,000, more than 4,000 fewer than the Manchester United-Real Madrid got four years ago. The sport is surely declining in this country.
55 min: An ambitious ball down the right for Liverpool, but Joel Pereira is quite alert, having been called into service a few times in 10 minutes.
United’s Scott McTominay gets a shot on a rare bit of possession the other way, but the tween-looking Kelleher collects it with ease. Not much possession for United, but does it matter?
@duresport admit it, you're not watching are you?
— Paul Howarth (@TOOFEE) July 28, 2018
If not, I must be guessing the events of this match quite well. Tomorrow’s Lotto numbers are 20, 29, 64 ... oh, I’m sorry, those were Liverpool starters.
52 min: Solanke does well to keep an attack alive, and Camacho shoots from an acute angle, which will serve to warm up Joel Pereira in the United goal.
Phillips, Ojo and Woodburn also in for Liverpool.
Salah and Mane are out, among others.
48 min: Manchester United’s Twitter feed confirms Pereira for Grant, and that’s the only United sub.
YELLOW CARD to Fabinho for a slight but unnecessary tap on Alexis’ ankles.
47 min: Unconfirmed -- Joel Pereira in goal for United, replacing Lee Grant, who did quite well.
Liverpool back in possession.
Halftime subs:
Let’s try to find them all ..
Caoimhin Kelleher replaces Grabara in goal, basically a swap of Liverpool academy keepers.
Tahith Chong, an 18-year-old Dutchman, takes the field for Manchester United.
And ... Shaqiri!
Malcolm Fearon, responding to my comment that something always happens when I’m looking for photos: “I suggest you spend all the second half looking for photos!”
It’s really not a bad match. Manchester United have even completed at least three passes in the opposing half.
“Great commentary,” writes Dylan Murray. “More entertaining than the actual match.”
Much appreciated, but you could put me alone on a field for a week, and I’d never duplicate that free kick.
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From the Twitter file ...
@duresport Tuanzebe has gone backwards at Villa - or wherever he was. Seems almost afraid of receiving the ball or tackling.
— Bruv (@Bourgy) July 28, 2018
Indeed it was Villa. He’s still young, though.
HALFTIME: Liverpool 1-1 Manchester United
Reminder of available United subs: Shaw, Garner, Pereira (GK), Chong, Gomes, Hamilton, Williams, Greenwood.
Liverpool have many more possibilities, from Sturridge to Jones to Woodburn.
Back in a few minutes. Email or Tweet away.
45 min: Camacho pokes the ball past Tuanzebe, then crosses -- somehow in between four Liverpool players. They still manage to get a shot out of it, and it’s deflected for a corn- ... nope, the spinning ball stays in play.
One minute of stoppage time.
44 min: Liverpool corner. Something happens every time I look for a photo to add.
Milner’s corner finds the head of van Dijk, but it’s straight at Grant.
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43 min: Salah in the middle at the top of the box, out wide to Camacho, cross goes just behind Mane.
42 min: A pile of bodies in midfield, and it’s a free kick 40 yards out for Manchester United. They play it short, then back, then ahead to Liverpool’s keeper.
@duresport would be nice to see either team wear red , 2nd half ?
— paul moody (@brasil196333) July 28, 2018
Maybe all the subs can wear red?
40 min: Bailly, the late addition to the United starting lineup, does well to fend off the onrushing Mane.
39 min: Fosu-Mensah attempts to send a clearance out of Michigan Stadium, perhaps hoping for a college football scholarship in case this soccer thing doesn’t work out.
(A couple of former Major League Soccer players have done just that. One made the NFL.)
Mane falls after a small push in the box. Maybe too theatrical to get a call that might have been harsh in the first place.
37 min: Klavan fouls Alexis rather needlessly at midfield, which is where the game has settled for now after an end-to-end start, er, 5-25 minute mark.
Peter Oh writes: “Is it too much to ask to see the Reds play in actual red? This third kit business is about as necessary as a third wheel.”
I think this might be the third kit I’ve seen Liverpool wear on this tour alone. This is probably their fourth or fifth kit. If they had more games here, I’d expect to see them in the USA’s old denim stars jersey.
33 min: That was Manchester United’s first shot of the game, to six for Liverpool.
Maybe a bit of inexperience by Liverpool’s defense to concede the foul? Let’s see that was ... van Dijk. Oops.
GOAL: Liverpool 1-1 Manchester United (Pereira 31)
Free kick about 28 yards out, and the young Liverpool goalkeeper has a great view as the ball zips past him. Didn’t move, and it probably wouldn’t have mattered.
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Water break, even though it’s only 26 degrees Celsius / 79 Fahrenheit. That’s as mild as you’ll get before dusk in the USA.
GOAL: Liverpool 1-0 Manchester United (Mane 28 pen)
Unlucky for Demetri Mitchell, the United defender loaned to Hearts last season, who tried to play the ball but got Salah in the box. Mane coolly slots it to Grant’s right, just out of reach.
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Will Lee Grant pull a Tim Howard and win the starting job at Manchester United on a U.S. tour? Probably not, but this is pretty good.
That save. 👐 #MUFC pic.twitter.com/jwLjLwTvGf
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) July 28, 2018
Manchester United and Real Madrid drew a crowd of nearly 110,000 at this venue four years ago. Seems nearly full again today.
21 min: Liverpool complete 8,390 passes through the United defense, but the final pass is lacking. Repeat.
20 min: Second time Mata has put the ball in the net. Maybe he can’t hear the whistle?
18 min: First email of the day is from one Graham Lees, who writes ...
Did Jose just wish Liverpool to do well? I didn’t think so. Yes, Klopp splashed the cash, spending 2+*Coutinho, but Mourinho seems to find other’s ideas for players … and then stifle them. Pogba seems happier in France than Old Trafford and JM let Salah, de Bruyne, Mata and Matic go? Hmm. He lingerth on his past too much, me thinks. I would love to see Man U as exciting as Liverpool. Currently they are as exciting as England. Oh.
So ... Bayern supporter?
15 min: Salah takes the ball away from an unfortunate United defender and plays out to Camacho, who shoots/crosses it to the far post and finds no one.
13 min: Mane and Salah are surely telepathic. The ball gets to Mane near the end line, and he dinks it back to the center for Salah, who can’t quite get enough on his header.
At the other end, Kamil Grabara joins the fun and takes a touch under pressure. He’s Liverpool’s goalkeeper today, joining a logjam behind Alisson. Karius? Mignolet? Kelleher? Who knows?
12 min: Grant decides to take a touch under pressure, and the ball sails to Mourinho. No, he hasn’t suited up to play.
And this happened:
A late change to the #MUFC starting XI as @EricBailly24 steps in for @ChrisSmalling.
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) July 28, 2018
Game on in Michigan! #ICC2018 pic.twitter.com/j5V6b5vtpr
Not sure why such news required a poster.
9 min: CHANCES for Liverpool!
First, Mane floats a beautiful ball ahead for Salah between two defenders. The All-World attacker gets his head to it and forces former Stoke keeper Lee Grant into a very good save.
Then the corner kick sails to the far post, where Van Dijk gets a head to it and it somehow doesn’t get in under the crossbar.
8 min: Mata puts the ball in the net ... which should probably earn him a yellow card because the whistle had blown for offside an eon earlier.
7 min: Milner gets the ball in the box off a throw-in from Camacho.
That would be Liverpool in white, which is confusing because they were wearing some sort of purple earlier in this competition.
Basketball game is over, but they’re still talking. Embarrassing.
Well done @ESPN, we all want to watch this rather than Liverpool-United #fail pic.twitter.com/OAsrdWPrrD
— Rob Heaton (@robheaton) July 28, 2018
Ian Darke, though, tells us we haven’t missed anything but some “tasty tackles.”
One team is in white. Another is in purple. Will update when we know which is which.
The “UCLA but it’s not really UCLA because that would surely violate all sorts of NCAA rules” coach just called timeout.
Meanwhile, Liverpool have committed three fouls.
May we ask who sets the “target score” for “The Basketball Tournament”? I think this is the equivalent of asking me to run a four-minute mile.
ESPN says the game is available in its app. It is not.
Apparently, those of us watching on ESPN can’t watch until old basketball players manage to score 86 points. That might take a while.
The Big House
Twitter pictures aren’t doing this place justice. This is the University of Michigan (gridiron) football stadium.
Official capacity: 107,601, nearly twice the size of Anfield. Add Ewood Park to Old Trafford, and you’re still not there.
Manchester United lineup
De Gea, Bailly, Jones, Rojo, Valencia, Lindelof, Pogba, Martial, Lingard, Young, Matic, Rashford, Fellaini ...
... are all unavailable.
Here’s the actual lineup ...
Now, this is DEFINITELY #MUFC's team for tonight's game... 😅 #ICC2018 #MUTOUR pic.twitter.com/oQjtHKsdI8
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) July 28, 2018
Liverpool lineup
Similar to what we’ve seen so far in the International Champions Cup apart from young Polish goalkeeper Kamil Grabara. It’s a first start in this year’s ICC for Mane, Salah, Klavan, Moreno, Solanke and Camacho, and we’re expecting to get our first look at Shaqiri. No Karius, Clyne, Wijnaldum, Keita or Matip, and still no Lovren, Firmino, Henderson, Mignolet, Ings, Alexander-Arnold or Alisson.
🚨 #ICC2018 Team News 🚨@MoSalah and Sadio Mane start for the first time this summer. Academy youngster Kamil Grabara named in goal.
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) July 28, 2018
Watch @ManUtd vs #LFC live on @LFCTV GO: https://t.co/BxfzKkm3b4 pic.twitter.com/jeDF100xKT
Good afternoon/evening ...
Are you adequately prepared to see a massive crowd in one of the largest stadiums on the planet watching stars like Kamil Grabara and Scott McTominay?
Will post lineups next ...
Beau will be here shortly.
