Darren Ferguson could not beat his father, Sir Alex Ferguson, in yesterday Barry Fry Testimonial game between Peterborough and Manchester United. United’s squad made hard work to win against a brave opponents, who could have recorded an excellent win if United keeper Tomasz Kuszczak was not in his day.

The Posh started the game very well and they had many chances to score. Scott Rendell seeing an early shot blocked and then Craig Morgan glanced a header wide of the target after Rio Ferdinand had given away the corner kick. Darren Fletcher took number seven shirt in United’s starting line-up which also featured England internationals Rio Ferdinand and Wes Brown as well as Patrice Evra, Carlos Tevez and Nani, but with all due respect to the Darren, Ronaldo’s absence was flagrant.Nani fired a shot by his left foot wide of the target on the half hour mark after Tevez cross to the back post.

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Goals: Carrick (44, pen), Rooney (70).

Attendance 20,500

Manchester United made a winning start to the new pre-season campaign, goals from Michael Carrick and Wayne Rooney gave United a victory over Aberdeen after hard game at Pittodrie.

Aberdeen, celebrating the 25th anniversary of winning the European Cup Winners’ Cup under Sir Alex Ferguson, stacked plenty of pressure on the Champions League winners, and were unlucky to see a first-half goal from Darren Mackie ruled out for offside.

United were back on the attack after 27 minutes when Giggs shot deflected wide after a swapping of passes with Michael Carrick. The deadlock was finally broken when Carrick split the defence with a beautiful pass to Rooney in the 43^rd minute, Aberdeen keeper’s Langfield deemed to have brought the Golden Boy down as he tried to round the keeper. The spot kick was taken by Carrick and he sent the goalkeeper the wrong way to put United ahead. Read the full story