Scholes gets the better of Zidane during Utd v Madrid legends encounter

More than 60,000 fans turned up to see some of the biggest names to have played for United and Real square off in the name of charity.

By Declan Whooley

More than ?800,000 was raised for charity with some familiar faces going toe-to-toe and while United went down 2-1 to Real for the second time this year to lose the 5-3 on aggregate, the crowd were served some entertaining football, with the biggest cheer reserved for the recently retired Paul Scholes for his clever flick over French legend Zinedine Zidane.

Zidane has gone on record to say that Scholes was one of the most complete players he ever played against and he was again shown why with a neat flick from the recently retired player that Zizou himself would have been more than proud of.

The match report didn't say whether Scholes picked up a booking or not, but we'll have to assume there was a couple of mis-timed tackes over the course of the 90 minutes.

Fernando Morientes gave the away side a half-time lead before Ruud van Nistelrooy, who played a half for each time fired home an equaliser with 20 minutes to go. Ruben de la Red (pictured above with Scholes and for whom the term legend may be a little on the generous side) grabbed a winner with five minutes to go.

United: Van der Sar (van der Gouw 70); Berg (Martin 9), Stam, Johnsen, Irwin; Blackmore (van Nistelrooy 46), Fortune, Scholes, Sharpe (Thornley 51, Blomqvist 87); Yorke, Cole.

Real Madrid: Contreras (Sanchez 62); Salgado (Pavon 69), Helguera, Pavon (McManaman 46), Amavisca; Figo (Vazquez 78), Hierro, Makelele (Sanz 62), Zidane; Morientes, van Nistelrooy (De la Red 46).