Manchester United enjoy trip to Dublin with penalty shootout win over Leeds

• Manchester United 1-1 Leeds (5-4 on pens)

• First game between two ­English clubs at Croke Park

With blazing sunshine fading over a hot Dublin day, this penultimate friendly for Manchester United and Leeds United felt like a pre-season game on a far continent, not one staged a few hundred miles from the teams’ home across the Irish Sea.

The phoney-war element is always present whatever the locale, as ­players sharpen technique and fitness, so when Joshua Zirkzee’s instant left-foot shot met Diogo Dalot’s zipped-in cross and James Trafford saved low, all involved could be satisfied.