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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 22039085" data-attributes="member: 158020"><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" />Manchester United 2 Sampdoria 1: Mata bags winner on Matic debut<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/08/02/21/42EA3CEC00000578-4754886-image-a-76_1501705842481.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Nemanja Matic enjoyed a winning debut as Manchester United wrapped up  pre-season preparations with a 2-1 victory over Sampdoria in Dublin on  Wednesday. Juan Mata scored a later winner to ensure United will enter next  Tuesday's UEFA Super Cup clash against Real Madrid on a winning note,  after Henrikh Mkhitaryan's header had been cancelled out  by Dennis Praet.Matic,  who completed a £40million move from Chelsea on Monday, started at the  base of midfield and looked comfortable throughout his 45 minutes.The  Serbian's composure helped the Europa League winners maintain control  throughout the opening period, but a series of half-time changes stifled  their momentum.Belgian midfielder Praet equalised for the Serie A  side just after the hour, leaving Mata to assume the role of  match-winner for Jose Mourinho's side inside the final 10 minutes.United began with a back three of Victor Lindelof, Chris Smalling and  Daley Blind, while Mourinho also handed a start to young midfielder  Andreas Pereira, who is tipped to figure in the manager's first-team  plans this season. Calamity almost struck the new-look defence as early as the  seventh minute when David de Gea was forced to claw a wayward Blind  backpass off the line, gifting Sampdoria an indirect free-kick on the  edge of the six-yard box.Thanks to a wall of bodies they survived  and, incredibly, raced straight up the other end to open the scoring  through Mkhitaryan, who nodded into an empty following a superb dipping  cross from Matteo Darmian.Sampdoria might have equalised from a  ball over the top moments later only for Fabio Quagliarella's stretching  first-time finish to drift wide of an empty net.Mkhitaryan  should have doubled his tally in the 22nd minute, but the Armenia  international this time headed Antonio Valencia's whipped delivery  straight at Christian Puggioni.Romelu Lukaku next flashed a  curling shot around the post as United began to control proceedings at  the Aviva Stadium, but Sampdoria steadied and saw out the remainder of  the first half.Mourinho replaced his entire midfield at the break  and switched to a back four on the hour, pairing Lindelof and Smalling  in the heart of the defence.The reshuffle proved costly in the  63rd minute when Smalling failed to clear Karol Linetty's cut-back, the  loose ball falling kindly for Praet to drive home.Chances began  to dry up until the final 15 minutes when the Red Devils pressed forward  more regularly and almost recaptured the lead through Ander Herrera.   Mourinho's men did  get the winner in the 81st minute courtesy of Mata, who coolly stroked  Anthony Martial's squared pass into the bottom corner and sent United to  Skopje in winning form.</blockquote>

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