Manchester United
De Gea, Darmian, Jones, Blind, Shaw, Carrick, Schneiderlin, Mata, Young, Memphis, Rooney
Barcelona
Ter Stegen, Adriano, Piqué, Vermaelen, Jordi Alba, Sergi Roberto, Busquets, Iniesta, Rafinha, Pedro and Luis Suarez.
We Tweeted earlier that pre-season is almost becoming more glamorous and instantly gratifying than the season itself.
Because Manchester United, god forbid, could go for another three years without playing an opponent this good.
But pre-season games increasingly bring the very best teams together for liberal smatterings of, largely pressure free, exhibition games of the highest order.
Tonight it’s Manchester United vs Barcelona at the Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara in the U S of A.
But who cares where it’s being played. We are just glad that Manchester United have put out a strong side.
The game gives us another chance to see the exciting talents of Memphis Depay who should play through the middle at number 10 once again.
Bastian Schweinsteiger is injured so Carrick comes in to play alongside the hitherto impressive new signing Morgan Schneiderlin in a much better looking midfield than we have seen for the last few seasons at Manchester United.
The odd but functional partnership of Jones and Blind starts again in the centre of defence, in yet another of the now typical surprise cards that Louis van Gaal likes to play.
Kick Off 13:00 Local Time, 21:00 BST
