Manchester City take on the visitors Real Madrid at “Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum" in the friendly match within the International Champions Cup. The game will be played in Los Angeles on Thursday, July 27th.
Last season Manchester City settled only on the third place in the English Premier League and this summer Josep Guardiola arranged a serious clean-up in the team. A great number of football players have left "The Citizens" including former line-up's performers: Aleksandar Kolarov, Nolito, Gael Clichy and others. After all, the club received 46 million EUR for the mentioned above players. In regard to the new-comers, Manchester City made only four purchases, but having spent 170 million EUR on them. All performers were bought for the main squad and must turn into the leaders without a peep. This summer Manchester City participated in one clash and lost it to their city mates from Manchester United with 0:2 scoreline which means that Josep Guardiola have a lot of work to do to lead "The Citizens" into the winning pace.
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This summer Real Madrid engaged just two performers for nearly 50 million EUR, whose names do not sound too much loud at the moment: young defender Theo Hernandez and midfielder Dani Ceballos should deserve their place in the line-up of "Merengues". In contrast to the Brits, the Spaniards jettisoned the ballast this year having earned much more money than they managed to spend. The team was quit by three football players of the main squad: James Rodriguez, Alvaro Morata and Danilo were sold to Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Manchester City respectively, plus the club arranged a few small transfers which brought to Real Madrid more than 100 million EUR in total. But the most important thing is that the club lost performers who had been disappointed by their status in it, moreover, Real Madrid earned impressive sums on their transfers.
By the very nature of friendly battles they should be more spectacular with a great number of scored goals comparing to the official encounters and I believe that the battle between the English and the Spanish grands will be like that.
Prediction for the match: Over 3.0 scored goals.
