The champions conquer Singapore
Atletico won by 2 goals to 0 against a local combined stars team to win the Peter Lim Charity trophy. Raul Garcia in the first half and Diego Costa in the second were the goalscorers.
Singapore All Stars 0-2 Atletico Madrid
Singapore All Stars: Mahbud; Khaizan, Rahman, Bennett, Baharudin, Camara, Fahrudin, Halim, Kaplan, Zerka and Ishak. Also played: Hamzah, Yunos, Latiff, Sujad, Duric, Sahdan, Nawaz, Sulaiman Harun, Ramli
Atletico Madrid: Courtois (Asenjo, 46 '); Manquillo (Juanfran, 60'), Pulido (Schism, 46 '), Cata (Miranda, 60'), Insua (Godin, 60 ') Tiago (Gabi, 60' ), Saul (Mario, 60 '), Cristian Rodriguez (Arda, 60'), Óliver (Koke, 60 '), Raul Garcia (Diego Costa, 60') and Adrian (Falcao, 60 ')
Goals:
Min.29. 0-1: Raul Garcia
Min.87. 0-2: Diego Costa advantage
The recently crowned winners of the Copa del Rey finished their tour of Singapore against a combined local stars team were were beaten 2-0 thanks to goals from Raul Garcia and Diego Costa.
The Jalan Besar Stadium in Singapore witnessed the encounter between Atletico and a selection of local stars with the red and whites ending their visit to the Asian country. The locals had a great opportunity to show off their image to the whole world. In the 8th minute, Jozep Kaplan was the first to try with a shot that Courtois collected.
Simeone’s men also went in search of chances and Adrian tried his luck from distance forcing Mahbud to stretch and send it out for a corner. The home side came again but Courtois was alert. Simeone’s team responded soon after with an attempt from the edge of the area from Óliver after showing his quality with a dribble before shooting.
The youth was the most active player on the artificial turf at the Jalan Besar Stadium. But it would be another player from the Atletico academy who was to provide the assist. Saul put a ball in from the left and Raul Garcia arrived from second line to score the first of night.
The second half started with little continuity due to the large number of new players on the pitch. Simeone changed most of his men after about 60 minutes, bearing in mind the league game coming up against Mallorca next Sunday at the Vicente Calderon in the last match in front of the home fans and the first since winning the cup.
With a team very similar team to the one that won the Copa del Rey on Friday, Atletico dominated the best part of the game. It was the scorer of the first goal in the cup final who came close to doubling the advantage after 70 minutes, Diego Costa sent a powerful header on to the woodwork.
More chances came for the visitor with Juanfran pulling one back for Falcao but the keeper prevented the Colombian getting on the scoresheet. With five minutes to go Juanfran was providing the assists against, this time for Koke who’s effort hit a defender to deny him a goal.
But just a minute later, the Brazilianbeat the goalkeeper with a nice strike to make it 2-0 to Atletico Madrid. The Singapore XI looked for a consolation and Latiff took a shot from 30 yards that grazed Asenjo’s crossbar. The full time whistle was blow as time was called on Atleti’s Asian tour.
