Manchester United released their new third strip this week with first-team stars slipping into the gear for the first time.
During the promotional shoot for the new kit, a handful of players were tasked with finishing a few fan chants sung by the Old Trafford faithful.
Club captain Bruno Fernandes, Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho, Diogo Dalot, Victor Lindelöf, Rasmus Hojlund and Tyrell Malacia were put on the spot with varying degrees of success.
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The first chant was the popular ‘U-N-I-T-E-D, United are the…” leaving the lads to fill in the blanks.
Rashford, Hojlund, Fernandes and Dalot answered this one and all of them hit the nail on the head, adding the “team for me” bit to the song.
Fernandes had a leg-up with chant two, as he finished the words to his own personalised song regularity belted out by the home fans.
“Bruno, Bruno, Bruno…” was answered by Dalot, Garancho, Malacia, Lindelöf and Rashford with the captain’s teammates all finishing the chant in some style.
Finally, the current stars were tested on a United legend in the form of Wayne Rooney, with the chant managing to stump a couple.
“He goes by the name of…” is finished with the club’s record goalscorers name and was correctly answered by Rashford, Dalot, Lindelöf and Malacia.
Hojlund and Fernandes failed the final mission, with goalkeeper Tom Heaton expressing his disappointment with Bruno in particular.
Despite some failing to get a full house, United fans will be delighted to see the players in such good spirits ahead of the new campaign.
Tyrell Malacia in particular is a face that supporters haven’t seen enough of in the last 12 months with the Dutchman not featuring at all last season.
The 24-year-old still isn’t ready for a return to first team action but will be desperate to restart his career at Old Trafford in the coming months.
United’s Premier League campaign gets underway this coming Friday with Fulham visiting the Theatre of Dreams for the season’s curtain raiser.
Erik ten Hag and his troops are tasked with producing a much better outcome than last season’s eighth-place finish, with a place in the top four a must for the Dutch coach.
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