Seattle, July 23: Manchester United showed there is life after David Beckham with an impressive victory over Celtic in the opening game of their pre-season tour of the United States.
Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ryan Giggs, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and debutant David Bellion each scored to give the Premiership champions an ideal result in their first appearance since Beckham left for Real Madrid.
"Celtic made it difficult but there was a good energy about us and our finishing was terrific," United manager Sir Alex Ferguson told the club's in-house television station.
In front of a record 66,772 crowd at Seattle's Seahawks Stadium, Van Nistelrooy began the rout in typically deadly fashion.
He received a seventh-minute pass from Solskjaer before firing a left-footed shot past Celtic keeper Magnus Hedman.

United captain Roy Keane brought down Stilian Petrov in the area after 18 minutes but Alan Thompson missed the penalty for the Scottish side before United took complete control.

Dutch forward Van Nistelrooy turned provider for Giggs for United's second on 29 minutes.

Solskjaer - filling in well for Beckham on the right flank - then swept home a right foot shot to give United a 3-0 lead six minutes before half-time.

Keane was replaced by Juan Sebastian Veron at the interval and United lacked their sharpness of the first half until Paul Scholes and Bellion were introduced as substitutes.

Scholes fed his new team-mate and, despite looking offside, the former Sunderland player slotted home from an acute angle with 18 minutes remaining.

Bureau Report.