Three Manchester United moments vs Crystal Palace showed what Erik ten Hag wants

Manchester United fans have had too many false dawns in recent years to be getting carried away by pre-season results, but keeping feet on the floor proved to be particularly difficult at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Tuesday.

It can be a fool's errand reading too much into pre-season results, but for the third game in a row on their pre-season tour United ran out comfortable winners and this was the best performance of the lot.

Game by game the philosophy of Erik ten Hag is taking hold in this team and if the games against Liverpool and Melbourne Victory featured some interesting tactical advancements, this felt like the night the genie left the bottle. United are going to be very different under the Dutchman.

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Wearing their new white away kit for the first team, United were a blur of movement. Full-backs popped up in attacking midfield positions, midfielders dropped into defence and forwards rotated fluently. There were off-the-ball runs everywhere. England didn't manage this many runs in the Ashes Test played here in December.

That Test was an embarrassment for 11 Englishmen. This friendly started with Harry Maguire being booed but when he was substituted he was cheered after an impressive performance. On this evidence, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho might yet make the World Cup squad in November.

It can be easy to point to the goals as vindication of Ten Hag's philosophy - and that's now 11 in three games - but it really was the manner of them that spoke volumes against Crystal Palace.

The first actually began with a poorly executed chipped pass from Fred 25 yards from goal. But United got the ball back because there were six players ahead of the Brazilian in