Manchester United 2-0 Manchester City, International Champions Cup RESULT: Romelu Lukaku and Marcus Rashford score for Jose Mourinho

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All over in Houston and United take the bragging rights... 5,000 miles from home.

Goals from Romelu Lukaku and Marcus Rashford got the all-important goals.

We're into two minutes of added time. After a gazillion substitutions you'd hope we'd get a little longer.

85 mins: City pushing hard. Fernandinho with the long-range piledriver which is tipped over by Romero.

84 mins: Stunning pass using the outside of his right boot by Nasri, but it's just caused Jesus to stretch for the ball and the Brazilian guides his volley over.

78 mins: Jones has three swipes at the ball a yard in front of Ederson, who saves three times. Lukaku lashes in but United's joy is short-lived. Jones was offside.

Zinchenko has come on for City and we're about to get Pereira and Fosu-Mensah for United. That just about brings us up to date.

73 mins: Romero punches clear but, under pressure from Diaz, he gets no distance and he gets a little lucky when the ball is lobbed narrowly over by Foden.

It's all calmed down a little inside the NRG Stadium. I'd say the humidity and heat was having an impact but there are pretty much two new teams out there now.

64 mins: Pogba, one of few United players to have started the game and still be on the pitch, toys with the City defence before launching a stinging effort at goal from 18 yards out, which causes the side-netting to ripple. 

One half of the ground thinks the Frenchman has scored. They are disappointed.

Fellaini, Carrick and Martial enter the fray. Mourinho has almost made 11 changes now.

Rashford has Mangala on toast and the City defender has to haul him down rugby style to stop him getting beyond him. 

You can't do that. Yellow card.

52 mins: Well, the angle between crossbar and post. It's a fizzing effort from Lukaku and Ederson is totally beaten. The frame of the goal is still shaking as the ball drifts out towards the far touchline. 

51 mins: Almost a very embarrassing moment for Ederson, who finds himself backtracking furiously to prevent Rashford's mis-hit cross from looping into his net.

Meanwhile, the hard-working stadium announcer is still reading out half-time substitutions - a full six minutes into the second period.

And he's still yapping away as Lukaku powers a free header well wide.

Darmian and Jones are also involved in the game now for United, and Diaz and Jesus are also thrown on by Guardiola.

Struggling to keep up here!

Can City get back into this? 

Nasri and Mangala, Sane and Otamendi are all on for City. There's Stones as well. 

Romero has come on between the sticks for United, and Bailly is in play too.

We have reached the break in Houston. Lukaku and Rashford have put United in control. More soon.

Your attention please, Daley Blind is booked for hacking at Roberts' ankles like he was an unwanted weed.

Yaya Toure gets his name taken for a late challenge in midfield and the stadium announcer loves it. 

'Can I have your attention please,' he cries over the booming PA system as Toure's name flashes up in lights on the big screen.

Again... this is a pre-season friendly.

Somewhere, Claudio Bravo is raising an eyebrow and smirking ever so slightly... 

41 mins: Foden comes ever so close to pulling a goal back and De Gea has to fling himself to his right to push the ball out for a corner.

Yikes. Penny for Ederson's thoughts. He's been beaten twice in two minutes after Rashford is left in acres of space down the right, collects Mkhitaryan's pass and guides the ball home.

A poor piece of goalkeeping from Ederson, who fails to get to the ball after charging out of his area. Lukaku steals in and guides home a tremendous finish, on the half-volley and from a tight angle.

30 mins: Chaos in the United box as Roberts is left all alone 12 yards from goal. Smalling gets back with a crucial sliding tackle and intervene.

Pep Guardiola, there, hailing a taxi after his evening out at the tapas bar.

28 mins: Save number four for Ederson, this time an easy grab from Pogba's very long range free-kick. 

26 mins: Whatever Ederson can do, De Gea can do 20 times more acrobatically. The Spaniard leaps high to his right to tip Sterling's strike over the top. Corner.

24 mins: Ederson saves again! It's a routine effort from Herrera - 25 yards out and straight at the keeper - but City's new signing will be happy with his work so far.

Who's up for a photo that makes Mr Mourinho look 25-foot tall?

You are? Great.

21 mins: Valencia weaves in from the right and picks out the run of Mkhitaryan, whose appearing all over the park like an out-of-control Splat The Rat. The Armenian fires at Ederson, who punches clear.

18 mins: Rashford finds a bit of space on the edge of the box but his shot is snuffled by De Bruyne's boot and the ball trickles out of play.

Phil Foden has always looked lively when I've seen him for the Under 18s and he's already looking sharp this evening. Never fazed by anything, he's calling for possession constantly. 

Seven mins: City have their first shot on goal - from Sterling, who might be 5,000 miles from home but is getting booed just as vigorously. It's saved by De Gea.

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of pre-season friendlies...

Six mins: Guardiola looks very casual on the City bench in his white T-shirt. He doesn't look all that impressed with his side's start to this one, and they've certainly been second best so far. And a little off the pace.

Mkhitaryan has a dig from range but this is in field goal territory.

Three mins: Ederson - who is playing in goal, don't worry about that - makes his first save as a City player, pushing over a stinging shot from Ander Herrera.

Let's play!

Houston Texans' JJ Watt is out on the NRG Stadium pitch for a few photo opps ahead of kick-off. Come on lads, let's play.

While we wait... here's JJ looking pumped:

Very little noise as the teams come out with Drake clutching the matchball. This is such a weird atmosphere... 

The NRG stadium is plunged into darkness. Fear not, football fans, it's no power cut. It's a pre-match light display. Obviously.

This is all very dramatic for a pre-season friendly.

At my local club (Swindon Town), we don't often bother opening more than half a stand for these things. Tonight... lasers, spotlights, 70,000 fans and a luminous International Champions Cup logo in the centre circle.

'All the big teams play big games straight away and that's what we're doing. I hope we can give a good game and all the people can enjoy it.'

So do we Pep, so do we.

A rendition of the Star Spangled Banner is sweeping around the NRG Stadium and the atmosphere is cranking up.

We're 10 minutes from kick-off in Houston.

Sort of.

Jose Mourinho quite rightly played down any sort of added spice to this game an hour or so ago but isn't planning on making wholesale changes at half-time as in the previous friendlies. Probably about five or six... 

A first sighting in a City shirt of Kyle Walker following his move from Tottenham... all £54million of him.

His clash with Marcus Rashford and Henrikh Mkhitaryan will be fascinating* tonight.

*As fascinating as pre-season 'clashes' can be.

Was here this time last night to watch City train and the young goalkeeper Aro Muric is an absolute giant. Huge, dwarfing new signing Ederson.

Fair to assume Muric may get a few minutes tonight and Pep Guardiola has high hopes for him. The manager's even joked that the 18-year-old could play centre half if need be...

Juan Mata, Luke Shaw, Marcos Rojo and Ashley Young are all down as substitutes tonight even though all four are injured and haven’t travelled to Houston.

Not an airport... but the security ring around the NRG Stadium.

Judging by the reception given to both teams as they come out to warm up, there’s no doubt who has more fans in the stadium tonight.

A chorus of boos for City, cheers for United. There are a lot more blue shirts around than there would have been a few years ago, though.

So, what are you expecting, Jose?

'A good training session. More difficult but that's what you need after MLS teams.' 

Don't ever change Mr Mourinho.

‘Manchester is Red’ reads one placard picked up by the cameras here. And Houston is hot. Hot and very humid. Thankfully we’ve got the roof on the stadium tonight so the playing conditions will be ideal.

Big round of applause from the United fans for Jose Mourinho as he makes an appearance. The United boss responds with a bashful wave.

A fan in the stand has a sign which reads: 'I drove 14 hours to watch Man United'.

Alright fella, enough of the bragging. 

A strange mix of support today - with City and United replica shirts mingling in the same stands. You won't see that during the coming season.

One by one, the club ‘legends’ are being interviewed on the pitch at the NRG Stadium. First Dwight Yorke (even though they spelled his name wrong on the big screen) and now Paul Dickov. There are 40 minutes to go until kick-off.

Jose Mourinho insists his bitter rivalry with Pep Guardiola is a thing of the past as the two men prepare for the Manchester derby in Houston.

A friendship fostered at Barcelona in the 1990s was ruined when Guardiola was given the coach’s job at the Nou Camp in 2008 ahead of Mourinho who then took over at Real Madrid.

They fell out spectacularly during Mourinho’s three-year stint in Spain, but the Manchester United boss believes it was stoked by the rivalry between the two clubs and will not re-surface in England.

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Kyle Walker starts for City days after joining from Tottenham...

Jose Mourinho picks a strong side out in Houston...

Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola will oversee the first ever Manchester derby played on foreign soil at the NRG Stadium in Houston.

City and United saw last summer's friendly called off in farcical circumstances over in China but will finally lock horns abroad.

Here, Sportsmail looks at what sort of shape the two sides are in ahead of kick-off in the early hours of Friday morning.

CHRIS WHEELER: Manchester City fans will have to subscribe to MUTV if they want to watch the Manchester derby in Houston on Friday.

United’s in-house TV station is the only rights holder in the UK and Ireland for the first derby to be played on foreign soil – meaning that City fans will have little choice but to pay the monthly subscription of £7 if they want to tune in.

Or you can keep up to date with Sportsmail. Your choice.

Here are the two touring squads from which Pep and Jose can pick their sides tonight...

Manchester United tour squad: De Gea, Romero, J Pereira, Bailly, Blind, Jones, Smalling, Shaw, Darmian, Rojo, Fosu-Mensah, Lindelof, Tuanzebe, Mitchell, Pogba, Herrera, Fellaini, Carrick, Mata, Young, Valencia, Mkhitaryan, McTominay, A Pereira, Lukaku, Rashford, Martial, Lingard.

Manchester City tour squad: Ederson, Grimshaw, Muric, Walker, Adarabioyo, Stones, Otamendi, Denayer, Kolarov, Kompany, Maffeo, Mangala, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Sane, Fernandinho, Garcia, Nasri, Silva, Sterling, Toure, Zinchenko, Jesus, Aguero, Moreno, Roberts.

Sportsmail's man in Texas, JACK GAUGHAN, reports there won't be wholesale changes at half-time but, and it's a big but, Mourinho has been playing down the derby element of the game.

He's treating it like a training session. Which, basically, it is.

Welcome along to Sportsmail's live coverage of the International Champions Cup clash between Manchester United and Manchester City.

The game in Houston is due to kick off in around an hour and a half's time and we'll keep you abreast of all the action.

It's the first Manchester derby to take place outside the UK and represents another chance for Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola to look at the state of their squads as the new Premier League season approaches.

Settle down, relax and team news should be on the way shortly.