The Hammers opened the scoring in the 26th minute when Dean Ashton collected a through ball from Carlton Cole before rifling home right-footed. The lead lasted less than a minute, Beckham playing the ball to Blanco, who backheeled it into the path of Gomez to slot past Robert Green. Blanco gave the All-Stars the lead a minute before half-time, curling a beauty past Green into the far corner. West Ham levelled when Ashton’s 20-yard shot deflected in. But again the All-Stars hit straight back, De Rosario was felled by Neill in the box, and the Canadian took the penalty himself, smashing the ball home off the crossbar.
Internazionale won their first game of pre-season with a header from Nicolas Burdisso at the back post from a looping Balotelli cross.
Esordio di Jose Mourinho sulla panchina nerazzurra. Avversari, i campioni dell’Arabia Saudita, che vengono battuti 1-0. Dopo un primo tempo non entusiasmante arriva la rete del difensore argentino, su cross di Balotelli.
The Pep Guardiola era at Barca began with an emphatic win at the start of the stat of their tour of Scotland. It was four-nil within half-an-hour, Eidur Gudjohnsen smashed home the first, Lionel Messi curled home the second, Gudjohnsen hit the third after great build-up play and Pedrito the fourth. Bojan Krkic and Yaya Toure added second-half goals.
German Marcus Burghardt beat Carlos Barredo in a two-man sprint to claim his maiden Tour de France win in stage 18 after a 196.5-km ride from Bourg d’Oisans to St Etienne. The 25-year-old Burghardt (Columbia), who won Gent-Wevelgem in 2007 but gained more infamy for crashing into a dog on last year’s Tour, easily held off Quick Step’s Barredo in the finale after a 131-km break-away. Frenchman Romain Feillu took third place from Christophe Le Mevel and Mikel Astarloza in the first chase group, finishing at 3′33″ behind the two escapees.
Il tedesco Burghardt brucia allo sprint lo spagnolo Barredo, suo compagno di fuga per oltre 60 km. Il gruppo con la maglia gialla Sastre a quasi 7′. Il veronese, caduto al 30° km, prosegue fino al traguardo, dove arriva con oltre 20′ ma si ritira dal Tour.
