United kicked off their tour of North America with a hard-fought 3-1 win over Celtic at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.Dimitar Berbatov, who impressed throughout, gave the Reds a first half lead with a fine finish, before Bhoys substitute Georgios Samaras fired an equaliser from the spot six minutes after the restart following debutant Chris Smalling's foul in the area. Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley followed suit in coming off the bench to score as they sealed victory for the Reds.
Sir Alex gave a first start to summer signing Chris Smalling, who lined up alongside Jonny Evans at the heart of the defence with the Da Silva twins down both flanks. Captain for the evening Darren Fetcher partnered Paul Scholes in midfield, with Gabriel Obertan and Ryan Giggs, who was the big favourite amongst the Canadian fans, on the right and left wings respectively. Mame Biram Diouf lined up in attack alongside Dimitar Berbatov.
Just under 40,000 watched on from the stands with most of them there to cheer on the Reds who donned their new home kit for the first time. The setting was quite spectacular with Toronto's famous CN Tower stretching high into the blue skies above the pitch which was only laid 24 hours earlier after the Toronto Argonauts opening CFL home game on astroturf.
It didn't seem to have a negative effect on United though who, having seen Marc Antoine Fortune test Edwin van der Sar with a low drive on seven minutes, began to take a foothold in the game.
Source : Man Utd
