BEIJING — Manchester United will aim for four wins out of four matches when it ends its Asian tour in China against Hangzhou Greentown on Sunday.
But the English champions will be without captain Gary Neville, who flew home for treatment on a groin strain before United beat FC Seoul 3-2 on Friday. United twice had to come from behind before Dimitar Berbatov's 65th minute header which proved the winner.
The Premier League giant earlier played two matches in Malaysia, winning 3-2 and 2-0. The second game was hastily scheduled because the hotel bombings in Jakarta forced the club to cancel its match in Indonesia.
Although the Red Devils have lost star winger Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid and Carlos Tevez to Manchester City, they remain massively popular in Asia. China's population of 1.3 billion people is a huge potential market for United and it is the club's fifth game in greater China in the past 10 years.
Hangzhou is in eastern China, south of Shanghai.
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said he was pleased with the fan reception so far on the trip.
"It's typical of the whole Far East, we have a terrific fan base and there's a great fanaticism here," he told United's website.
Last month Manchester signed a five-year deal with Aigo, which will make and sell co-branded digital cameras, multimedia players and data storage devices for United around the world, and cellphone handsets in China.
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