It was a pre-season game with no stakes attached, but for some, it will be remembered as the day Liverpool's Thiago Alcantara was humiliated by Manchester United's Eric Bailly.
The sting of a 9-0 aggregate defeat last season lingered in United's minds, and you wouldn't expect the same team to take on Liverpool again, friendly or not, especially when there's so much at stake.
Every player wants to prove something; they want to be a part of new manager Erik Ten Hag's project, so every Man United player should take the game seriously.
And, as Jurgen Klopp stated, there will be no friendly match between Liverpool and Manchester United, competitive or not. Manchester United demonstrated the point, but for some reason, Liverpool lost the plot, succumbing to a 4-0 defeat in a reversal of the Anfield game.
Eric Bailly, a long-forgotten United player, had everything to prove, far more than the rest.
He put in his best performance since wearing the Manchester United shirt, and one remarkable thing he did that drew attention was schooling Liverpool's midfield maestro, Thiago Alcantara, before putting the Red Devils up 4-0.
It was as if the defender was so enraged by what Alcantara did against United at Anfield last season that he came into the game determined to humiliate the Spaniard.
The defender, known for his unconventional defending, broke into Liverpool's half to launch a counter-attack, dropping a shoulder and dribbling past the former Bayern Munich midfielder before seeing out a pass to Facundo Pellistri.
Eric Bailly saw to it that the game ended 4-0 in retaliation for the Anfield game last season.
The Man United fanbase lauded the moment of brilliance, with some declaring him to be world class and others believing he deserved the Ballon D'or for that performance alone.
In the first half of the pre-season match in Bangkok, goals from Jadon Sancho, Fred, and Anthony Martial put Manchester United up 3-0.
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Real Madrid's open fronts continue to provide a good number of updates in relation to the summer session of the market in 2022. Thus, Alexander Isak (22 years old) has been mentioned as an alternative for the avant-garde merengue. A striker who is still under contract with Real Sociedad until June 2026.
A team that, by the way, won the Copa del Rey in 2019-2020. Meanwhile, information from England cannot be dismissed. The Telegraph reports that Newcastle United, the Premier League's new richest club, is willing to break the bank to sign Isak.
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With this information, The Magpies can throw caution to the wind for the Sweden international.
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