Pre-season friendlies
SUBSTITUTIONS
FT: Real Madrid 3-2 Chelsea
Plenty of big-name absentees in Michigan but still two pretty-strong looking line-ups. Chelsea start Ola Aina at right-back, with no out-and out striker.
Real Madrid XI: Casilla, Carvajal, Varane, Nacho, Marcelo, Casemiro, Kovacic, Lucas Vazquez, Morata, Asensio, Mariano.
Chelsea XI: Begovic, Aina, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta, Oscar, Matic, Willian, Traore, Loftus-Cheek, Pedro.
There are reports that this game in Michigan will be the biggest crowd Chelsea have ever played in front of. Talk of 105,000. Big.
FT: MAN UNITED 5-2 GALATASARAY
A lovely, lovely goal puts Galatasaray into a deserved lead. Bruma plays a neat one-two with Sinan Gumus just on the edge of the area, he is able to take two quick touches to move the ball out of his feet, and then he bends a dipping shot across David de Gea and into the far corner. Clinical.
And that foul from Zlatan Ibrahimovic proves costly. Wesley Sneijder whips in a testing ball from the right, there is little to no marking and Sinan Gumus is free to plant a header past David de Gea from 10 yards out.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic ventures back into his own half to help out and ends up fouling Galatasaray captain Selcuk Inan, much to Jose Mourinho's displeasure.
You can't say that goal hasn't been coming. It's a pre-season friendly so the intensity is nowhere near the top level, but the Turkish side have had all of the play for at least 20 minutes.
BARCELONA 3-1 CELTIC
Sensational stuff from the Suarez brothers*. Wonderful one-touch football from Barcelona's Luis and Denis almost ends in a fourth goal.
The older Suarez cleverly taps a cutback from the left flank into the young former Manchester City midfielder's path. Surely? Nope, he can't beat sub Celtic keeper Leo Fasan.
*They're not actually brothers
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