by Our Sports Desk

MANCHESTER UNITED maintained their 100 per cent tour record thanks to goals from Wayne Rooney, Jesse Lingard and Adnan Januzaj at the Levi’s Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers, on Saturday night.

Matteo Darmian, Luke Shaw and Ashley Young performed well in the morale-boosting 3-1 victory against European champions Barcelona in California.

David de Gea also put in a strong performance on his first outing of the summer.

The Spaniard, who is wanted by Real Madrid, denied Sergi Roberto a goal when the Barcelona midfielder was clean through in the first half, and grew in confidence from there on.

Barcelona did not have Lionel Messi or Neymar in their team, but United still did well to negate the threat of Luis Suarez, Pedro and Rafinha.

They rode their luck at times, though. Barca struck the woodwork on three occasions and on another day Rooney’s goal would have been disallowed for a nudge on Adriano just before he headed in Young’s cross.

Van Gaal said Barca could not deal with the danger posed by Rooney and Memphis Depay, who played in the number 10 role just behind the skipper.

“I think they are always a threat,” Van Gaal said.

“That is very important. Barcelona could not cope with the threat of Depay and Rooney.”

Angel Di Maria failed to join the team in the US and therefore didn’t make the match, fuelling speculation that the Argentinian is close to a big-money move to Paris Saint Germain.

United will round their tour off against PSG in Chicago in the early hours of Thursday morning.