30-05-2025
Manchester United vs Hong Kong: Score and latest updates
Good afternoon and welcome to live coverage of Manchester United's final post-season tour match against Hong King. It may be difficult to pinpoint exactly which circle of hell United are traversing at the moment – they've been through limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger and heresy but is this violence, fraud or treachery – but it's certainly hot down there for all concerned. In the scale of things, losing to a scratch South-East Asian XI while pocketing £8 million barely matters given the long, morale-sapping season they've had, the weight of the shirt (and not just in oppressive heat and humidity) and the unsuitability of Ruben Amorim's tactics for the personnel he has and vice versa.
On Wednesday Amorim used 27 players, leaving Altay Bayindir unused, which meant only the starting XI, which stayed together for merely 30 minutes, had any hope of finding any coherence and even they couldn't manage it against a well-drilled side that also made multiple changes but still managed to break Manchester United's defensive structure with fast dribbling and slotted, diagonal passes between the middle centre-half and his colleagues left and right and between them and their wing-backs.
The Hong Kong national team they play today have beaten Macau 2-0 and drawn 0-0 with Singapore this year and are tuning up for an Asia Cup qualifier against India on June 10. They are managed by former Manchester United trainee Ashley Westwood, a defender you may remember from his stints at Crewe, Sheffield Wednesday and Wrexham. That Singapore draw capped an unprecedented winning run in the team's history in which the Brazil-born winger Everton scored five goals. Juninho, also born in Brazil, is the main threat up front and should Amorim riffle through his subs as quickly as he did in Kuala Lumpur, the Kitchee forward has the skill to make him pay.
While Harry Maguire, Andre Onana and Diogo Dalot have gone to India to flog tyres and do a meet and greet, Luke Shaw, Matthijs de Ligt, Mason Mount and Joshua Zirkzee, who were in the stands on Wednesday, are all in tonight's squad.
