Both teams last met in the FA Cup in January 2010 when the visitors caused a huge upset a Old Trafford by beating The Reds 1-0 thanks to a Jermaine Beckford strike (video below). Leeds are currently not in a good form and ManUtd fans will certainly be eyeing revenge.

Goalkeepers: David De Gea, Tomasz Kuszczak, Anders Lindegaard, Ben Amos*, Sam Johnstone*.

Defenders: Patrice Evra, Phil Jones, Rio Ferdinand, Jonny Evans, Chris Smalling, Nemanja Vidic, Fabio*, Rafael*, Sean McGinty*.

Midfielders: Anderson, Ryan Giggs, Ji-sung Park, Michael Carrick, Nani, Ashley Young, Tom Cleverley, Darren Fletcher, Antonio Valencia, Darron Gibson, Matty James*, Davide Petrucci*.

Forwards: Michael Owen, Dimitar Berbatov, Wayne Rooney, Javier Hernandez, Danny Welbeck*, Federico Macheda*, Mame Biram Diouf, Will Keane*.

* Indicates player is on list B.

Group A: Bayern Munich, Villarreal, Manchester City, Napoli
Group B: Inter Milan, CSKA Moscow, Lille, Trabzonspor
Group C: Manchester United, Benfica, Basel, Otelul Galati
Group D: Real Madrid, Lyon, Ajax, Dinamo Zagreb
Group E: Chelsea, Valencia, Bayer Leverkusen, Genk
Group F: Arsenal, Marseille, Olympiakos, Borussia Dortmund
Group G: Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk, Zenit St Petersburg, APOEL
Group H: Barcelona, Milan, BATE Borisov, Viktoria Plzen

This completes United’s group.

Away from football, this shows the caring part of football, and how it helps to bring people together. In today’s WBA v ManUtd match, players from both team wore black arm-bands to honor the three men Haroon Jahan, Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir who were tragically killed during the recent riots in UK.

We at ManUtd24.com would like to extend our condolences to the victims’ families.

“With the information currently available to us there is no reason to think any matches outside of London will be affected”, said the statement.

However the situation is much different now as violence has struck Birmingham, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Manchester & Salford. The latest comments from WBA administration saying that they were “monitoring what is an evolving situation”, ahead of ManUtd’s trip to The Hawthorns on Sunday, also suggest that the match was is now very much a doubt.

Do you think the match should be played as per schedule? Give your views below.

ManUtd 6-0 NY Cosmos FT
Goal scorers: Scholes, Rooney (p), Anderson, Welbeck, Diouf, Diouf

Video Highlights

United starting XI: De Gea, Rafa, Rio, Vida, Evra, Nani, Scholes, Giggs, Young, Berba, Rooney.

NY Cosmos starting XI: Friedel, Salgado, Reyering, Cannavaro, Bridge, Iraheta, Butt, Murphy, Keane, Yorke, Dimitrov.

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NY Cosmos have announced their squad for the match which includes many big names:

Nicky Butt
Wayne Bridge
Chad Calderone *
Sol Campbell
Fabio Cannavaro
Ibrahim Diaby *
Stefan Dimitrov *
David Diosa *
Brad Friedel
Marvin Iraheta *
Robbie Keane
Brian McBride
Dane Murphy *
Gary Neville
Yanik Reyering *
Michel Salgado
Moriken Sangary *
Patrick Vieira

*Denotes New York Cosmos U-23 Player