Manchester United vs Aston Villa: Prediction, kick off time, TV, live stream, team news, h2h results

Manchester United will look to finish their pre-season tour of Australia in style when they face Aston Villa this weekend.

Comfortable wins over Liverpool, Melbourne Victory and Crystal Palace have got the Erik ten Hag reign off to the perfect start and with less than three weeks to go until the Premier League season begins, United will be keen to keep the good-feeling going.

Steven Gerrard’s Villa side have also had a successful time of it Down Under, beating Leeds and Brisbane Roar.

Both teams fly back to England after Saturday’s match to continue their preparations ahead of the serious business getting underway.

The preseason friendly is scheduled for a 10:45am BST kick-off time on Saturday July 23, 2022.

Optus Stadium in Perth will host.

TV channel and live stream: The game will be broadcast via a live stream on MUTV and Villa TV.

LIVE coverage: Follow all of the action via Standard Sport’s dedicated match blog.

Ten Hag has gone strong with his lineup in all of United’s matches in Australia so far and the same can be expected against Villa.

Anthony Martial will surely get another chance to continue his goalscoring form in the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo, with Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford also likely to start again.

New signing Tyrell Malacia played more minutes than most against Palace so may be rested, with Luke Shaw and Alex Telles pushing for starts. Raphael Varane missed out last match but United have insisted that was only precautionary, so he should return to the squad.

Villa are slightly more difficult to predict as they continue their pre-season preparations, with Gerrard naming an almost entirely different side for the second-half against Brisbane Roar.

Tyrone Mings, Ollie Watkins and Jacob Ramsey came