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Real Madrid had a feast this Saturday in California and beat Juventus 2-0 with goals from Frenchman Karim Benzema and Marco Asensio, in the last friendly match of their pre-season on US soil, in preparation for the Super Cup UEFA to be played on 10 August against Eintracht Frankfurt.

After the 0-1 defeat against Barcelona in the Las Vegas Classic and the 2-2 draw against América, Madrid closed their American tour with a solid performance and an authoritative victory, driven in the first half due to a penalty scored by Benzema and signed in the second with a masterful choral play culminated by Asensio.

Ancelotti made it clear that this friendly would serve for the protagonists of the Champions League final League of Paris warmed up engines for the Super Cup and in fact the starting eleven in Pasadena was the same as the 1-0 against Liverpool that earned Madrid the fourteenth European Cup.

Madrid’s aggressiveness in all areas of the field caused several mistakes by Juventus and the punishment reached 19′, when Vlahovic missed a back pass and favored the counterattack of Vinicius, who was brought down in the area by Danilo when he was in front of goal.

The referee did not hesitate to point out the penalty and Benzema crossed his shot with the right to celebrate his second goal in this preseason, after the one he signed against América.

In the middle of the friendly match, Ancelotti revolutionized his eleven, giving him admission to 63′ to Lucas Vázquez, Nacho Fernández, Jesús Vallejo, Aurelien Tchouameni, Eduardo Camavinga, Dani Ceballos, Eden Hazard, Rodrygo and Marco Asensio, and it was precisely the latter who resolved the commitment.

In a beautiful collective play, Asensio closed a wall with a heel with Hazard, who freed Vallejo from the left so that he could put in the low center that Asensio himself finished off to put definitive figures.

After the US tour that ended with a draw against America, victory against Juventus and defeat against Barcelona, ​​Madrid will travel back to Spain to begin preparations for the European Super Cup that will be played next 10 August in Helsinki, Finland.

By Scribe