Manchester United enjoy trip to Dublin with penalty shootout win over Leeds

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With blazing sunshine fading over a hot Dublin day, this penultimate friendly for Manchester United and Leeds United felt like a pre-season game on a far continent, not one staged a few hundred miles from the teams’ home across the Irish Sea. The phoney-war element is always present whatever the locale, as players sharpen technique and fitness, so when Joshua Zirkzee’s instant left-foot shot met Diogo Dalot’s zipped-in cross and James Trafford saved low, all involved could be satisfied. Even better for Michael Carrick’s men ensued: Bryan Mbeumo raced along the left and served the ball to Zirkzee who, again, hit a first-time effort that this time beat Trafford to…

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