It’s not just the World Cup in football right now. The clubs of the 5 major championships are slowly but surely starting their winter preparation, three weeks before the resumption, for boxing day. This is particularly the case of Manchester United who played a friendly match on the lawn of Cadiz. And Anthony Martial’s teammates fell heavily against the current 19th in La Liga, led by Alvaro Negredo (2-4). Holder, the French still found the fault on penalty.
In the other friendly match of the day, AS Monaco held off Sevilla FC (1-1). Philippe Clément had aligned almost his typical team in this match (without Disasi or Fofana, present at the World Cup with the Blues). Gelson Martins scored the goal for the French team (59th) but Pedro Ortiz equalized (73rd).
