Real Madrid played against the Shamrock Rovers from Ireland in a club friendly on Monday night, but failed to impress despite winning 1 – 0.
The ’second Galacticos’ as the team is commonly referred to, began the match without a single Dutchman on the pitch. This adds to speculations on manager Pellegrini’s wish to sell most of the Dutch players.
Cristiano Ronaldo did form part of the starting line-up but failed to impress against the Irish.
The only goal was scored with just four minutes to go, and came from substitute forward Karim Benzema.
Real Madrid begin their 2009-10 La Liga campaign against Deportivo la Coruña on August 30.
Source: soccernews.com
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