Rangers suffer Murrayfield misery as Man Utd leave Philippe Clement scrambling for pre-season positives – 3 talking points

Rangers suffered a fresh dose of misery at Murrayfield as Philippe Clement’s side were booted into touch by a youthful Manchester United side in Edinburgh.

More than 56000 punters trekked through to the home of Scottish rugby to see this glamour friendly between two of Britain’s biggest clubs. But with most of Erik ten Hag’s star names still on holiday after their Euros involvement, it was left to their kids to do the damage on a Gers side looking staggeringly undercooked just two weeks out from their Scottish Premiership opener just along the road at Tynecastle.

Former Rangers loan flop Amad Diallo opened the scoring just before half-time. The United kid is best remembered in Glasgow for being hooked 45 minutes into his Old Firm debut but he’s re-emerged as a promising prospect at Old Trafford following a successful stint at Sunderland.

And he underlined his progress since his time at Ibrox with a classy finish past Jack Butland. United wrapped up the win with 20 minutes left as Joe Hugill slammed home the second but it’s another display that will worry the Ibrox fans ahead of the new season.

It’s been a summer of gloom for the Gers support with the Copland Road cock-up and depressing statements from boss Clement leading most fans to conclude they’ll be in for another campaign of playing second fiddle to Celtic.

And there wasn’t all that much on show in the capital to persuade them otherwise. Mohamed Diomande and former United trainee Tom Lawrence came close with a couple of set-piece efforts early doors.

But it took a brave goal-line block from Dujon Sterling to keep the scores level after Diallo outstripped Ben Davies to tee up Ethan Wheatley. Scott Wright managed to squeeze a cross into Cyriel Dessers’ feet just