Bebe Saves The Day For The Reds

Bebe

Manchester United secured a 1–1 draw with Ajax Cape Town at the Green Point Sta­dium in their last pre-season match in South Africa. Sub­sti­tute Alcardo van Graan gave The Urban War­ri­ors the lead four minutes before the end only for Por­tuguese U21 inter­na­tional Bebe to score the equal­iser for Manchester United in stop­page time.

£16 mil­lion sum­mer sign­ing Shinji Kawaga should have scored for Manchester United in the 60th minute of the friendly match but the midfielder’s header went wide. Then in the 75 minute, fel­low new boy Nick Pow­ell made his Manchester United debut as a sub­sti­tute and the pre­vi­ous Crewe Alex­an­dra star­let quickly put the home goal­keeper to the test with a power­ful shot. Ajax Cape Town even­tu­ally took the lead in front of a 50,000 crowd when second half sub­sti­tute Alcardo van Graan net­ted with an amaz­ing back heel flick with four minutes left on the clock. Sir Alex Ferguson´s boys hit back almost instantly, how­ever, as Por­tugal U21 inter­na­tional Bebe equal­ised for the vis­it­ing side when he fired home a vol­ley from only six yards out in stop­page time. Someone once wrote that when a team want to play a low tempo game, the oppon­ent is more likely to oblige in your barn than in front of their own fans. How very true. And although Manchester United could only draw with Ajax Cape Town yes­ter­day, Sir Alex Fer­guson pro­nounced him­self happy with his youth­ful side’s per­form­ance against Maarten Stekelenburg´s team. The Manchester Reds will now make the jour­ney to The People’s Repub­lic of China for the first time in three years to lock horns with Shang­hai Shen­hua in Shang­hai on Wed­nes­day. Manchester United Team: Ben Amos, Mar­nick Vermijl, Scott Woot­ton, Rio Ferdin­and, Tyler Black­ett, Ant­o­nio Valen­cia, Paul Scholes, Michael Car­rick, Ander­son, Shinji Kagawa, Javier Hernandez.

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