Manchester United preseason friendly, will take them to Scandinavia for the eighth time in the 14 -year -old space.
Traditionally drawing a large fanbase from the northern Europe region, United They have had the habit of playing a game in Scandi Soil during the last summers in particular.
Although the main part of the club’s “tour” has taken place elsewhere, the unique games against a variety of local and international opposition have been played every year admissible since 2019, there was no international journey in 2020 or 2021 due to Covid-19.
Last summer, the Red Devils faced Rosenborg in Trondheim, with Leeds UnitedAtlético de Madrid and Kristiansund, this last club in the city of Gunnar Solskjaer, other adversaries for friends who have all been played in Norway in the last six years.
This summer, United will face Leeds again, After gaining 2-0 last year courtesy of goals from young Noam Emeran and Joe Hugill. But Stroolm’s Strawberry Arena will be played, the first summer preseason game, scheduled for 14:00 BST (15:00 CET) on July 19.
The match will also mark the first preseason visit to Sweden since 2016 since Jose Mourinho ran the club to a 5-2 victory over Galatasaray in Goteborg. Mourinho returned his team to Sweden ten months later, facing Ajax in Stockholm to win the Europa League.
The Strawberry Arena, although known as Friends Arena at that time, was also the place for this final. Eight years later, Luke Shaw and Marcus Rashford are the only surviving United States players but Shaw lost the clash injury And Rashford’s time at the club can end soon. Andre Onana and Matthijs de Ligt played both in this game for Ajax.
The previous visit from the United States to the same stadium in Stockholm arrived in 2013, a preseason friendly against the local Aik side that finished 1-1 and was also David Moyes’s first game in charge of European land, after a previous tour of East Asia and Australia.
This summer, most of the preseason program will take place in the United States, Playing three games in America as part of Premier League summer series.
