Jesse Lingard has emerged as the star of Manchester United’s pre-season tour to date.
Three games in, and two defeats for Manchester United does not sound too clever for new manager David Moyes.
But it is about far more than results, particularly if a new manager can learn something about his players and discover new stars.
And he has done just that. Jesse Lingard has been a name highly regarded at Old Trafford for the past couple of seasons, even if the Warrington born player he has never won a youth international cap for England.
He scored his third goal in two games for United in their loss to Japan’s Yokohama Marinos, a 3-2 defeat.
His goal was an opportunistic goal poacher’s effort, after excellent work from new boy Wilfried Zaha.
Can he make the breakthrough?
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