Saturday 30 July 2016

Real Madrid 3-2 Chelsea: Zidane's men ease past Blues despite Hazard double

Real Madrid 3-2 Chelsea: Zidane's men ease past Blues despite Hazard double
The Belgium international's two goals could not rescue the result for Antonio Conte's men, who were three goals down at half-time in their ICC clash

Marcelo and Mariano powered Real Madrid to victory over Chelsea in Saturday's International Champions Cup tie, despite a late double from Eden Hazard.

The Brazilian left-back opened the scoring after 19 minutes with a fine blast from outside the box.

Seven minutes later, Marcelo was on target once again, bursting into the box, prising himself away from both Gary Cahill and Nemanja Matic, before rifling a low shot beyond Begovic at the near post.

Mariano made it 3-0 before half time with a thunderous shot from 25 yards into the top corner.

Eden Hazard grabbed a consolation goal for the Blues with a neat finish in the 80th minute, but the game was wrapped up by then, meaning Madrid had nothing to fear when he netted his second in the dying minutes,

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