 Ryan Giggs and co. lose-out to a dogged Kansas City... Match Report - Kansas City Wizards 2-1 United Competition: International Friendly Kick-Off & Date: 11pm, Sunday 26th July Venue: Arrowhead Stadium (Neutral) Attendance: 52,424 Over 50,000 fans travelled to the newly refurbished Arrowhead Stadium to watch the World's biggest club take-on MLS minnows, the Kansas City Wizards - derived, of course, from the Wizard Of Oz. And it was the home side who certainly cast a spell on The Reds, as they performed embarrassingly and lost humiliatingly. Now it's only a friendly, but United should have put The Wizards to bed on a number of occasions. Davy Arnaud put Kansas in-front with just 11 minutes on the clock. Dimitar Berbatov was then given a clear-cut penalty, but Referee Terry Vaughn marred the decision by harshly sending-off Jimmy Conrad. Berba slotted away the penalty cool as you like, or lazy as you like in this case. With Kansas down to 10 men, everyone thought it would be a walk-over. It was anything but. Kei Kamara scored the match winning goal three minutes after the spot-kick, in the 43rd minute. United put pressure on the Americans after the break, but nothing could stop them from grabbing a shock win over The Red Devils...  Kansas City Wizards celebrate a shock victory over a lacklustre Manchester United side ! The stadium went under a $325 Million re-design recently, and judging on United's performance on Sunday night - they may have to do just the same, or at least sign a creative attack... any ideas ? Early on, Paul Scholes struck narrowly over the crossbar after Luis Nani's free-kick was blocked. However, moments later Kamara set-up skipper Arnaud to pass it under young Ben Amos' legs and into the net. The crowd was in shock, already. The Wizards could have gone further ahead, but The Reds just about held-out, with Chris Smalling and Jonny Evans struggling at centre back. Ryan Giggs was then attacked by Michael Harrington in the opposition box during a corner, and somehow he got a booking ? However, on 42 minutes - the break came. Giggs threading in Berbatov - who was about to shoot - when defender Conrad took the legs from beneath the Bulgarian, getting nowhere near the ball. Berba capitalised, but the crowd was again left aghast when Conrad as shown red for the challenge in the heated friendly.  Only positive: Nani back ! Three minutes after the leveller, Kamara rose to meet Ryan Smith's corner. He headed off the bar, and the linesman on the far side adjudged the ball to have crossed the line. Replays were pretty inconclusive. Regardless, The Wizards had the lead. Darron Gibson, Mame Diouf, Nani, Berbatov and Ritchie De Laet made way for Kiko Macheda, Tom Cleverley, Gabriel Obertan, Danny Welbeck and Fabio Da Silva in the second half. Kiko had a header brushed off the line, Scholsey had an unsuccessful pot shot fly wide, and Obertan was clean-on in the area, only for the French winger to pass the ball across the face of the goal with no one in sight. Cleverley had a curling effort float past the post in the dying seconds, but in the end - the biggest club in the World just weren't good enough. Yes, it's only pre-season - but with a one man advantage against a small American side, we really should have done better... United: Amos, Rafael, Evans, Smalling, De Laet (Fabio), Nani (Obertan), Gibson (Cleverley), Scholes, Giggs (booked), Berbatov (Welbeck), Diouf (Macheda). Commentsbrian 26/07/2010 12:07am
united are shocking the amount of balls given away. gibson is rubbish he is after giving the ball four times. smalling rubbish. he will improve do. berbatov excelent giggs scholes average Darren 26/07/2010 12:17am
Whats the score? chris 26/07/2010 12:30am
no sky darren or what ! joeyjoejo 26/07/2010 2:26am
rubbish performance against a 10 man mid table mls side, our mid field going forward is dire about as creative as a plank of wood. jon 26/07/2010 2:38am
we were a joke and so was the ref. Mesut Ozil 26/07/2010 2:57am
Phew! Thank God United can't afford me (even at a bargain £12m) I do not want to play for the team I watched tonight. andy harrison 26/07/2010 2:57am
Ye. Like balotelli/benzema, ozil/sneider, Phil lahm Alan 26/07/2010 5:16am
Thanks for the write-up. Alan 26/07/2010 5:30am
And yes, that should be wizards with one "z". ;-) brian 26/07/2010 10:42am
still cant beilve we lost. gabo more like fatbo. gibson ife is the reason we wont buy ozil. then fergie has lost the plot. and mike phelan is one the worst coaches evere. if were not getting rid of fergie a leated get rid of him. how times did midd lay pass fatbo gave it way 5 times. giggs scholes fucking hell our the club is about keeping the ball not giving away cant even beat 10 men CJ 26/07/2010 4:55pm
actually its not bad to lose in pre season...thats how we learn isn't it? Erm...after looking at the past few matches...I agree with Fregie that we have quite number of interesting youngster...Nani, Macheda, Valencia, Diouf, Obertan, Ceverly and of course...Hernandez...not to forget the brazilian brothers , Evan, ROONey... well..what we need is actually a NEW KEANO! Darren 26/07/2010 6:16pm
Its not that bad, chelsea and livershite both lost 26/07/2010 6:54pm
Brian, don't give about about Gibson. He has just lost his grandmother and it that wasn't hard enough, he had to play on Sunday. brian 26/07/2010 8:07pm
sorry about that didnt no about his grandmother Fredster 27/07/2010 3:37am
It was a bit heartless of the management to demand Gibson return to the tour after only a couple of days compassionate leave. Is our squad really that thin on quality? Here's an idea to relieve some of the pressure on Scholes and Gibson; get the chequebook out and SIGN FUCKING OZIL. Darren 27/07/2010 11:18am
@Fredster Totally agree! face facts 27/07/2010 12:14pm
Gibson hasn't been improving for a while now, all of last season was a bit of a backward step and even though he has an excuse for this performance we need him to show something in his next run out. Comments are closed. |  
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