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Wigan 0 – 2 Manchester United Highlights: Keane & Pereira Scored in 2nd half

July 16, 2016 By Jenifer Leave a Comment

Manchester United going to play their first friendly before the seasonal competition under Jose Mourinho. After Van der Gaal, it is the first game of the Premier League giant. The whole squad of the club is rearranged by Mourinho, so the match is very important for him. The match hosted at DW Stadium, UK. The both team has played 18 times in before and Red Devils are leading with 17 times and Wigan Athletic won only once.

Though it was just a friendly match but huge audience attendance surprised English football federation. Lot of people also watched this match in TV channel. As it was the first match under Mourinho, people eagerly waited to understand his plan for the red devils. First half finishing with goal zero draw which make worried to Man U fans. But the 2nd half was heavy enjoyable. Lots of attempts made by this most time EPL title winner. Finally goal come from Keane & Pereira on 49′ & 58′. First goal by Keane should be call own goal by the wigan goalkeeper. But the send once by Pereira was excellent to watch. Good start of this season by Man utd. without their icon footballer like Rooney, Ibra, Mata and so.

Manchester United Vs Wigan Athletic Highlights

Man U goal

Competition: Friendly match (Club Pre-season)

Event between: Wigan Vs Manchester Utd

Date: July 16

Day: Saturday

Time: 13.30 (BST)

Live Watch: MUTV

Venue: DW Stadium

Opened: 1999

Capacity: 25,138

Location: Loire Dr, Robin Park, Wigan WN5 0UH, United Kingdom

Manchester United possible XI:

Players  Country
David de Gea (GK) Spain
Chris Smalling (DF) England
Daley Blind (MF) Netherlands
Antonio Valencia (MF) Ecuador
Michael Carrick (MF) England
Eric Bailly (DF) Ivory Coast
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (MF) Armenia
Luke Shaw (DF) England
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (FW) Sweden
Wayne Rooney (FW) (Captain) England
Marcus Rashford (FW) England

Wigan Athletic Possible XI:

Players Country
Lee Nicholls (GK) England
Stephen Warnock (DF) England
Jason Pearce (DF) England
Danny Whitehead (MF) England
Donervon Daniels (DF) Montserrat
Emyr Huws (MF) Wales
Max Power (MF) England
Michael Jacobs (FW) England
Andrew Taylor (DF) England
Will Grigg (FW) England
Yanic Wildschut (FW) Netherlands

Head to Head Statistics:

Total Played: 18

Man Utd Won: 17

Man Utd Lost: 1

Wigan Won: 1

Wigan Lost: 17

Drawn: 0

The last match of United which was taken place on 21st May vs Crystal Palace, result won by 2-1 score. And the 17th May against Bournemouth was finished with 3-1 victory. If we see the last five event of United, we can see that they lost only one game against West Ham 1-0 and one match consisted as drawn with Leicester city. The other match was strongly won by the Old Trafford side. However, Wigan was lost their last match which was held on May against Barnsley. It was a terrible lose of 1-4 score. Last April they played total six games and won four and get drawn. The Average score was 2.66. The overall performance was not so bad of the Wigan Athletic. But this time they need to be more hard work because this season The Red Devils included some extra power in their squad like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and some veteran faces. The old and new combination of the player will rock summer. Keep eyeing and linked with us. 

Jenifer

This is my first time to work as a sports writer but I'm confident and hopeful to develop useful content for you.

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