Achieves victory 2-0 with goals from Asensio and Benzema
He displayed an aggressive game, with abundant arrivals at the opposite goal
The real Madrid had a feast this Saturday in Pasadena (California, USA) and won 2-0 against Juventuswith goals from the French Karim Benzema Y Marco Asensioin a final friendly of their pre-season on American soil that served as a confidence booster ahead of the UEFA Super Cup on August 10 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 authoritarian victory, boosted in the first half by a penalty scored by Benzema and signed in the second with a masterful choral play culminated by Asensio.
Madrid delighted the 93,702 spectators of the iconic Rose Bowl, a record for the Pasadena stadium, which was attended by thousands of Madrid fans. He did it with a brilliant team performance, with an electric Vinicius Junior on the flanks and with a defense that hardly granted opportunities to Juventus.
Ancelotti made it clear that this friendly would serve for the protagonists of the Champions League final in Paris warm up engines for the Super Cup and in fact the starting eleven in Pasadena was the same from the 1-0 against Liverpool that was worth Madrid’s fourteenth European Cup.
David Alaba and Eder Militao They kicked the Serbian out of the game Dusan Vlahović, Dani Carvajalrecovered after a week off, returned to tour the band with rhythm and trio from the midfield formed by Toni Kroos, Casemiro and Luka Modric directed a high pressure next to the offensive trident, Vinicius, Benzema and Fede Valverde.
Madrid showed a good state of athletic form, which pushed Juventus to the limit in the ball out phase, repeatedly recovering the ball in the offensive zone and creating constant danger in the goal of Mattia Perin.
The madridista aggressiveness in all areas of the field caused several mistakes by Juventus and the punishment came in minute 19, when Vlahovic missed a back pass and favored Vinicius’s counterattackwho was shot down in the area by Danilo Luiz Da Silva when he was going to release the shot.
The referee did not hesitate to signal the penalty and Benzema crossed his shot with the right to celebrate his second target in this preseason, after the one he signed against América.
The spark of Vinicius, who delighted the fans with plays of great class, the class and calm of Benzema, Modric and Kroos in handling the ball allowed Madrid to enjoy themselves in Pasadena against a Juventus in which the Argentine Ángel Di María was left alone and in which the only dangers came from set pieces.
Of course, in one of them, a direct foul from 20 metersthe Turinese were able to take advantage, if a good shot by Leonardo Bonucci did not repel the crossbar.
Madrid, who played with a special shirt drawn in collaboration with Juventus and Adidas to send a message for inclusivitydid not stop stepping on the accelerator and touched the second goal with a curved left-footed shot from outside the area by Benzema that Mattia Perin sent for a corner.
It was then that Ancelotti revolutionized his eleven, giving way to Lucas Vazquez, Nacho Fernandez, Jesus VallejoAurelien Tchouameni, Eduardo Camavinga, Dani Ceballos, Eden Hazard, Marco Asensio and Rodrygo Goes.
Ancelotti shuffled the cards, but did not change the result. Madrid continued to delight with their choral game and the prize came in minute 69, when Asensio made it 2-0 at pleasure after completing a magnificent play. Asensio closed a wall with a heel with Hazardwho freed Vallejo on the left so that he could put in the low center that Asensio himself finished off.
It was the target that knocked down Juventus definitively and that sentenced the game in favor of a Real Madrid that is already thinking about Helsinki and at Eintracht.
– Game sheet:
2 – Real Madrid: Courtois; Carvajal, Militao, Alaba, Mendy; Casemiro, Kroos, Modric; Vinicius, Valverde, Benzema. Rudiger, Lucas, Nacho, Vallejo, Tchouameni, Camavinga, Ceballos, Hazard, Asensio, Rodrygo also played.
0-Juventus: Perin; Danilo, Bremer, Bonucci, Alex Sandro; Fagioli, Zakaria, Locatelli; Di Maria, Kean, Vlahovic. Cuadrado, Rovella, Aké, Gatti, Pellegrini, Pinsoglio, Soulé, Rugani, Cudrig, Barbieri, Da Graca also played.
Goals: 1-0, m.19: Benzema (penalty); 2-0, m.69: Asensio.
Referee: Michael Radchuck (USA). He showed yellow card to Asensio (m.83), from Real Madrid.
Incidents: Friendly match played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena (California, USA) before 93,702 spectators, a stadium record.