The word friendly might not be in Lisandro Martinez’s vocabulary after a crunching tackle on Bukayo Saka in a pre-season match.

Manchester United took on Arsenal in front of an 82,500-capacity crowd at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Saturday night, and won 2-0 thanks to Bruno Fernandes and Jadon Sancho.

Martinez spared no prisoners and wiped Saka out

He stood over the England international

And while the match was billed as a friendly, Martinez clearly did not get the memo as he wiped Saka out in the first-half.

The Arsenal star was in a relatively safe position, but the center-back played true to his ‘Butcher’ nickname by scything him down in a strong challenge.

The Arsenal players were incensed by it and rushed in to defend Saka.

The Gunners’ captain, Odegaard, even challenged Martinez, who would not back down and continued to glare at the Norwegian.

There was a momentary outburst of wrath, which quickly subsided, but there is still no love lost between these two ex-enemies.

And it demonstrated that United was up for this friendly after sprinting out to an early two-goal lead.

Bruno Fernandes had opened the scoring after an error from Aaron Ramsdale when the Portuguese midfielder took a pot shot from distance.

The Gunners goalie got a glove to it but it was not strong enough as the ball squirmed through his hands.

Odegaard arrived to defend his teammate but Martinez was not backing down

When Gabriel Magalhaes botched a routine ball over the top, Mikel Arteta’s team faced even more difficulties.

When the Brazilian missed the ball, Jadon Sancho was free to sprint in the direction of the goal.

The forward outran Gabriel, but there was still work to be done as he sent a shot from a small angle high into the net.

Ramsdale was once more defeated with ease because he failed to protect himself or his near station.