Manchester United vs Real Madrid LIVE score and goal updates from Super Cup

Man Utd vs Real Madrid in the European Super Cup sees Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho face their former clubs in Skopje.

In his programme notes before what was his last European tie in charge of Manchester Unitedagainst Real Madrid, Sir Alex Ferguson wrote: "Turn up the volume so that even the grand old men up there, Sir Matt Busby and Santiago Bernabeu, will be able to hear you."

There are few fixtures steeped in as much history as United versus Real Madrid. Real's early European hegemony featured a victory over Matt Busby's Babes and 11 years later United overcame the six-time European Cup winners to reach their first final.

United have beaten Madrid only once since then and their 4-3 victory in 2003 was an inconsequential one. Ronaldo's hat-trick of away goals put the tie beyond Ferguson's side before the hour mark.

Tonight marks the great clubs' 11th meeting and first in over four years.

It's time to turn up the volume.
It might be a "glorified friendly" but there will still be plenty at stake for Manchester United and their manager Jose Mourinho when they take on Real Madrid in the Uefa Super Cup in Skopje.

The build-up to the match has been dominated by a simmering transfer feud over Gareth Bale, the Welsh winger who United appear intent on luring to Old Trafford.

Add to that a couple of "jibes" from Sergio Ramos about his former manager and it seems the game "will certainly have an edge", says Jack Gaughan of MailOnline.

That the Bale situation appears to be the focus of the build-up says a lot about the status of the Super Cup, which is supposed to be a "prestige match between two of Europe's premier clubs", says Miguel Delaney of The Independent.

"But then you remember that for all the other angles brought up beyond Bale – Mourinho's history with Real, Mourinho's history with Sergio Ramos and Marcelo, Mourinho's history with Zidane, Cristiano Ronaldo's history with Manchester United, the two clubs' general history of tension in the transfer market – it's still just a friendly."

But it's one that Mourinho will be desperate to win. How he approaches the game could be telling, particularly after his side were outclassed by Barcelona during their tour of the US.

"Mourinho has never won the Super Cup and would surely love to do so against the club he left in unhappy circumstances four years ago," says Jamie Jackson of The Guardian.

"The schooling from the Catalans had shone a harsh light on precisely where United sit in the European hierarchy. Mourinho said that, as the United manager, it is up to him to outwit any superior force and so Tuesday's Uefa Super Cup against Zinedine Zidane's outfit is the first test of whether he and his players can meet the challenge."

There are signs that Mourinho is building a team that can challenge for top honours and that he's planning long term at Old Trafford, says JJ Bull of the Daily Telegraph.

"To keep his job, he needs to win. To please the fans, he needs to do so in style.

"Mourinho won't be introducing a free-flowing, carefree Man Utd into a frantic Premier League any time soon but there are signs that Mourinho, the anti-football, win-at-all-costs coach, might have a grander plan than only delivering the trophies his role demands."

The teams of Alex Ferguson featured "flying wingers, steel and power in the centre, creativity in midfield and a predator in the penalty box", says Bull.

Mourinho's squad has those attributes and, like Ferguson, he likes to play on the counter attack.

A front line boasting Romelu Lukaku, Marcus Rashford and Henrikh Mkhitaryan is not one opposition defences will want to see running at them.

"It's a team with a solid backbone, imagination and power. It has swagger," says Bull.