Manchester United And Leeds United To Face In Pre Season ‘Friendly’

Manchester United and Leeds United will play each other for the first time since 2011 in a pre season friendly in Australia in the summer of 2019.

As relatively recently as 2002 Leeds United were one of the best teams in the Premier League and even reached a Champions League final in 2001, losing to Valencia.

The next two years saw the Yorkshire club fight against relegation, with the second season a losing battle, once out of the Premier League they remained out of the top tier.

In the past 14 seasons they have played in either the Championship or League One, having dropped down to the third tier on two occasions.

This season they are led by Marcelo Bielsa and The Whites have been right near the top of the table all term, currently sitting in third, leading to thoughts they could soon return to the Premier League.

Should that happen at the end of this season then they will soon face opposition from England’s top division in the form of their long standing rivals from across the Pennines.

The two sides will face in a pre season ‘friendly’ next summer with the match taking place in Australia.

For anyone wanting to make the trip ‘Down Under’ tickets start at just £40 to see the two traditional northern footballing power houses go at it.

It’ll actually be the first time since the third round of the League Cup in 2011 that the two sides will face each other, as long as there’s no cup games between now and then, when the Manchester side won 3-0.

Previous to that game Leeds had actually embarrassed the then Premier League champions in the third round of the 2010 FA Cup when Jermaine Beckford’s strike at Old Trafford separated the two teams, Leeds were in League One at the time.

By August 2019 we could see Leeds back against Premier League opposition every week, for now we at least know they’ll face Manchester United in Australia in July.

Posted by Minority Voice on Nov 21 2018. Filed under Featured, Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry