Manchester United began the pre-season tour on Tuesday on a high beating Liverpool 4-0 in Bangkok.
Jadon Sancho opened the scoring for the Erik Ten Hag charges before Fred and Anthony Martial increased United’s lead .
Liverpool made 21 changes across the 90 minutes, including half-hour cameos for new signings Darwin Nunez and Fabio Carvalho.
Young Uruguayan Facundo Pellistri added a fourth near the end as, in front of over 50,000 enthusiastic supporters in the Thai capital,
Of the starting line-ups, United’s also contained far more players expected to be involved on the opening Premier League weekend.
It was a good start for Ten Hag on a night when Fred’s goal was the highlight, having met a poor clearance with an audacious right-footed chip from 20 yards that sailed over Brazil team-mate Alisson Becker in the Liverpool goal.
Salah hit a post and Nunez missed the follow-up as Liverpool pushed for a consolation that somehow did not arrive given they ended the match on top.
Manchester United starting XI: De Gea; Dalot, Lindelof, Varane, Shaw; McTominay, Fred; Sancho, Fernandes, Rashford; Martial.
Manchester United substitutes: Heaton, Bailly, Malacia, Diallo, Telles, Pellistri, Wan-Bissaka, Van de Beek, Elanga, Laird, Chong, Hannibal, Garnacho, Savage, Iqbal.
Liverpool starting XI: Alisson; Mabaya, Phillips, Gomez, Chambers; Henderson, Morton, Carvalho; Elliot, Diaz, Firmino.
Liverpool substitutes: Adrian, Mrozek, Davies, Van Dijk, Konate, Thiago, Milner, Keita, Salah, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jones, Tsimikas, Robertson, Nunez, Matip, Bajcetic, Williams, Clark, Clarkson, Alexander-Arnold, Van den Berg, Norris, Hill, Frauendorf.