Club Friendly Preview: Real Madrid - AC Milan

  PROBABLE LINEUPS

Real Madrid (4-2-3-1): Casillas; Arbeloa, Albiol, Ramos, Coentrao; Alonso, Granero; Jese, Ozil, Ronaldo; Benzema.

ROSTER

GOALKEEPERS: Iker Casillas, Antonio Adán, Jesus Fernandez Collado

DEFENDERS: Raul Albiol, Alvaro Arbeola, Fabio Coentrão, Jose Nacho Fernández, Pepe, Sergio Ramos, Raphael Varane

MIDFIELDERS: Xabi Alonso, Jose Maria Callejon, Angel Di Maria, Lass Diarra, Alex Fernandez, Esteban Granero, Kaka, Sami Khedira, Mesut Özil, Jese Rodriguez, Nuri Sahin

FORWARDS: Karim Benzema, Gonzalo Higuain, Alvaro Morata, Cristiano Ronaldo

AC Milan (4-3-1-2): Abbiati; Abate, Bonera, Acerbi, Antonini; Nocerino, Ambrosini, Flamini; Boateng; Cassano, Robinho.

ROSTER

GOALKEEPERS: Christian Abbiati, Marco Amelia, Edoardo Pazzagli

DEFENDERS: Ignazio Abate, Francesco Acerbi, Luca Antonini, Daniele Bonera, Djamel Mesbah, Mario Alberto Yepes, Mattia De Sciglio,

MIDFIELDERS: Massimo Ambrosini, Kevin Prince Boateng, Kevin Constant, Urby Emanuelson, Mathieu Pierre Flamini, Riccardo Montolivo, Antonio Nocerino, Bakaye Traore, Mattia Valoti, Bryan Cristante

FORWARDS: Robinho, Antonio Cassano, Stephan El Shaarawy, Philipp Prosenik

  DID YOU KNOW?

  • New York's Yankee Stadium will host this match of the World Football Challenge.

  • Real Madrid thrashed the LA Galaxy 5-1 in the Home Depot Center on Thursday. Three days later Los Blancos beat Santos Laguna 2-1 in Las Vegas. 

  • Milan has also won both its U.S.-based friendlies, edging Chelsea 1-0 on July 28 before beating Olimpia 3-1 on Saturday.

  • Four players from this Milan squad were part of the Italy roster that reached the final of Euro 2012: Abate, Montolivo, Nocerino and Cassano. Madrid also contributed four players to that game, with Casillas, Ramos, Arbeloa and Alonso on the winning side.

  • After this match, Real Madrid will play a preseason friendly against Celtic on Aug. 11 in Philadelphia. Milan will head back to Europe.
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