With Ángel Di María on the pitch, Juventus drew 2-2 against Barcelona. photo by Reuters.
Ángel Di María of Rosario played 75 minutes for Juventus in the Italian side’s 2-2 draw against FC Barcelona in a friendly match played at dawn in Argentina this Wednesday at Cotton bowlfrom the city of Dallas, as part of the preseason that both teams are developing in the United States.
doublets The French striker Ousmane Dembelé, for the Spanish team, and the Italian Moise Kean, for Juventus, gave the final numbers on the match.
Juventus and Barcelona did not exploit each other on American soil. AFP photo.
Di María started out as right front with an inverted profile, a function he usually plays in the Argentine national team, and was replaced about half an hour before the second half by another Argentine, the young Matías Soulé.
“Fideo” had debuted with his new team at dawn last Saturday. He too had left then and also left the pitch after the first half to make room for Soulé di Mar del Plata. That day Juventus beat Chivas de Guadalajara 2-0 in a friendly match played in Nevada.
At Barcelona, Robert Lewandowski barely had a couple of chances in the 62 minutes he was on the pitch.
To the Polish striker added star of the season for the Catalansjust misses a strong shot from outside the box in the first half and a header over the crossbar in the second.
The match was Barcelona’s third on their US tour. After defeating Inter Miami (6-0) and Real Madrid (1-0) in the last week, the Catalan team will close their pre-season phase in America on Saturday. Red Bull of New York of the MLS.
Juventus, for its part, will face Real Madrid that same day, at Rose Bowl Stadium from Pasadena, California
Real Madrid tied
Almost simultaneously with the Juventus-Barcelona match, and in another pre-season match, in the city of San Francisco, the Real Madrid also drew 2-2.with Mexico’s America, which has Argentinian Fernando Ortiz as DT.
Real Madrid also drew 2-2 in the early hours of Wednesday in the United States, against América de México. Photo: AFP.
the Spanish set started losinguntil in the 22nd minute Karim Benzema, who was playing his first pre-season game, shot very tight from outside the box to put things at 1-1.
Real comes out to play the second half with eight changes: Militao, Alaba, Tchouameni, Camavinga, Ceballos, Valverde, Rodrygo and Hazard have entered.
Hazard scored the 2-1 for Real, from a penalty, in the 9th minute of the second half. And, after making seven changes and ten minutes from the end, América brought the score to two with another penalty, executed by Fidalgo.
Real Madrid will play the last game of this phase of the preseason against Juventus (Saturday) to try to win the first game of the preseason.
Source: Clarin
