Man United vs Crystal Palace LIVE: Result and final score after Martial, Rashford and Sancho goals

Manchester United face Crystal Palace today in Melbourne as the two Premier League clubs continue their pre-season preparations.

United have enjoyed their trip to Australia so far, with heavy wins over Liverpool and Melbourne Victory, as Erik ten Hag gets to grips with his new squad and despite the continued absence of Cristiano Ronaldo. They start with a back four of Diogo Dalot, captain Harry Maguire, Victor Lindelof and new-signing Tyrell Malacia. Scott McTominay and Fred anchor midfield with Bruno Fernandes either alongside them in a three or more advanced in a No10 position, behind Jadon Sancho, Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial in attack.

Meanwhile Palace have Covid and injury troubles but still field plenty of talent with Jean-Philippe Mateta leading the line alongside Jordan Ayew. The 18-year-old winger Malcolm Ebiowei gets a start, as do 20-year-old Killian Phillips and 19-year-old Jesurun Rak-Sakyi. Follow all the latest updates from the pre-season friendly below.

Manchester United vs Crystal Palace

• Man Utd XI: De Gea; Dalot, Maguire, Lindelof, Malacia; McTominay, Fred, Fernandes; Sancho, Martial, Rashford

• Palace XI: Butland, Clyne, Ward, Andersen, Mitchell, Rak-Sakyi, Milivojevic, Phillips, Ebiowei, Mateta, Ayew

• Match kicked off at 11.10am BST

• GOAL! Anthony Martial puts United in front, 1-0

• GOAL! Marcus Rashford adds United’s second goal, 2-0

• GOAL! Jadon Sancho slots home their third, 3-0

• GOAL! Joel Ward heads one back, 3-1

Manchester United 3-1 Crystal Palace

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87 min: This game is winding down a little after all those changes and that red card. Laird replaces Malacia.

Manchester United 3-1 Crystal Palace

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A night to forget for the 19-year-old centre-half:

RED CARD! Will Fish (Manchester United) 🔴

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Oh dear, the teenage defender has been shown a red card for deliberately denying a goalscoring opportunity.

Manchester United 3-1 Crystal Palace

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77 min: Another raft of changes by Palace, and that’s their entire XI now replaced. For United, Hannibal gets a well-struck shot away which is straight at Matthews.

GOAL! Manchester United 3-1 Crystal Palace

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Palace have one back! Joel Ward gets his head to a corner and squeezes the ball past De Gea.

Manchester United 3-0 Crystal Palace

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68 min: Both teams have made a horde of changes. Iqbal and Savage are among those getting some minutes for United.

Manchester United 3-0 Crystal Palace

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64 min: Almost a moment to celebrate for Palace, but Mateta was rightly called offside after scoring at a corner.

Manchester United 3-0 Crystal Palace

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Rashford played the ball into Martial who picked out Sancho’s burst down the right side. Sancho kept his composure and slotted the ball home. That front three is having a great evening in Melbourne.

GOAL! Manchester United 3-0 Crystal Palace (Sancho)

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Jadon Sancho makes it three!

Manchester United 2-0 Crystal Palace

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52 min: Martial has the bit between his teeth now. He tries a cut-back to Fernandes who might have scored had he not run into Van de Beek.

Manchester United 2-0 Crystal Palace

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The one-two between Martial and Sancho was sublime, and the cute pass by Van de Beek was neat to set up the finsh for Rashford.

GOAL! Manchester United 2-0 Crystal Palace (Rashford)

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An excellent goal by United and finished by Marcus Rashford. Good link up between Sancho and Martial before Van de Beek tees up Rashford to add the second.

Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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Manchester United make a change at the break: Van der Beek replaces McTominay in midfield.

Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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The second half is under way in Melbourne.

Half-time: Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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Petition for more sport (all sport?) to be played at the MCG:

Half-time: Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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That Martial goal:

Half-time: Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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Palace youngster Phillips is booked just before the break. United lead thanks to a well-worked goal scored by Anthony Martial.

Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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45 min: Fred shoot over, and a moment later Bruno Fernandes is flagged offside. There will be three minutes added on here, presumably due to a series of minor knocks through the half as well as that Martial goal.

Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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42 min: Plenty of United subs are warming up, including Alex Telles (what must he be thinking after the signing of a third left-back?), Charlie Savage, Hannibal Mejbri, Donny van de Beek, Amad Diallo and Anthony Elanga.

Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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39 min: Harry Maguire tries a shot on the swivel turn, and fires high over the bar. A few ironic cheers for the captain now.

Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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36 min: Dalot comes forwards again down the right and picks out Sancho in the box, who can’t quite return the favour. Rashford, Sancho and Martial all looking threatening in the past few minutes.

Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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32 min: Another knock here, as Martial goes down holding his head. He’s up and running soon enough, though.

Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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29 min: More joy for Palace as Ebowei drives inside and plays a neat pass through to Rak-Sakyi inside the area, who fires at goal but well blocked by Maguire

Martial then goes down after a blow to the head but he’s back up and playing.

Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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Martial now has three goals in three games on this tour. With his form and Dalot’s smart assist there, does Ten Hag have some solutions to potential problem positions up front and at right-back?

Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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24 min: Finally a moment of light for Palace, as the teenager Ebiowei skips past Fred and forces a save from De Gea at his near post. A couple of corners follow but Palace can’t make them count, with Ayew heading wide.

Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

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A clever cross from Dalot, that. Could Martial be playing his way into Ten Hag’s plans? He’s certainly made a good start to this pre-season.

GOAL! Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace (Martial)

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There it is: Anthony Martial arrives at the back post to fire home from Dalot’s cross, with a chest down and neat finish on his right foot. United lead.

Manchester United 0-0 Crystal Palace

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Some early images from Melbourne:

Manchester United 0-0 Crystal Palace

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9 min: A chance for Martial, who links up with Fernandes this time and breaks through on goal, but Butland rushes out to save. A good stop but the keeper has stayed down with what looks like an injury to his hand.

Manchester United 0-0 Crystal Palace

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6 min: It’s a bit cagey early on. Fernandes tries to pick out Martial with a throughball but it’s intercepted by the Palace defence. Maguire, meanwhile, is getting booed by some United ‘fans’.

Manchester United 0-0 Crystal Palace

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3 min: Martial gets the first shot away but it’s well over the bar. United’s back four has Maguire on the right side of the centre-back pairing, which might suggest he will play there once new signing Lisandro Martinez beds into the side, though Raphael Varane will want a starting berth too of course, once he’s fit.

Manchester United 0-0 Crystal Palace

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United are decked out in all white, their new away strip revealed on stage in Melbourne earlier this week, which was all a bit odd. Sancho starts on the right wing with Rashford on the left and Martial leading the line.

Manchester United 0-0 Crystal Palace

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Kick-off! United get the game under way.

Manchester United vs Crystal Palace

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A reminder of the line-ups:

Man Utd XI: De Gea; Dalot, Maguire, Lindelof, Malacia; McTominay, Fred, Fernandes; Sancho, Martial, Rashford

Palace XI: Butland, Clyne, Ward, Andersen, Mitchell, Rak-Sakyi, Milivojevic, Phillips, Ebiowei, Mateta, Ayew

Manchester United vs Crystal Palace

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The players are out at the MCG... Just a few minutes until kick-off.

Manchester United vs Crystal Palace

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It’s been a tough pre-season for Palace. Nine senior players haven’t travelled with the squad to Australia for a mixture of injury issues and lack of vaccination against Covid, and they include Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke and Cheick Doucoure – the latter is dealing with a blackmail plot against him. That explains the young team out here in Melbourne to take on United, and some great opportunities for these youngsters in the side.

Manchester United vs Crystal Palace

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Patrick Vieira is keen to strengthen Crystal Palace’s squad ahead of the new season:

Erik ten Hag speaks

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The Manchester United manager is familiar with Crystal Palace, having watched United lose at Selhurst Park at the end of the season. Ahead of the game today he told MUTV he is pleased with his team’s progress:

“I see progression from day to day, it has to be because, on 7th August, we have to be ready for the start of the Premier League.”

On Palace, he said: “It’s good today [to play against] a Premier League team. We got beaten in the last game of the season [by Palace] so we know we have to be good, a better performance, to get the right result.”

Where does Cristiano Ronaldo play this season?

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United have enjoyed their trip to Australia so far, with heavy wins over Liverpool and Melbourne Victory, as Erik ten Hag gets to grips with his new squad and despite the continued absence of Cristiano Ronaldo.

There were more Ronaldo stories in the press this morning, with links to Atletico Madrid being reported in Spain:

Transfer news LIVE: Latest updates as Atletico chase Cristiano Ronaldo

Crystal Palace line-up

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Palace have Covid and injury troubles but still field plenty of talent with Jean-Philippe Mateta leading the line alongside Jordan Ayew. The 18-year-old winger Malcolm Ebiowei gets a start, as do 20-year-old Killian Phillips and 19-year-old Jesurun Rak-Sakyi.

Butland; Clyne, Ward, Andersen, Mitchell; Rak-Sakyi, Milivojevic, Phillips; Ebiowei, Mateta, Ayew.

Manchester United line-up

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Here is how Manchester United line-up this morning (evening, in Melbourne). It will be interesting to see if it shapes up as a 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 once play gets under way.

De Gea; Dalot, Maguire, Lindelof, Malacia; McTominay, Fred, Fernandes; Sancho, Martial, Rashford.

Manchester United vs Crystal Palace

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Follow all the latest from the match between Premier League sides United and Palace in Australia.