Eden Hazard Destroys Barcelona Defends

Eden Hazard added another eye-catching goal to his increasingly impressive collection. That came early and with the Blues playing some of their best football of the fortnight, they lead the game until half-time.




Chelsea, sporting the new adidas away kit for the first time, soon made the early domination pay through Hazard’s brilliance. Riding a challenge from Ivan Rakitic in trademark style, he then changed direction and went for goal, evading two other defenders before slotting the ball home low and true before a saving tackle could be made. This is what the American fans had come to see. There were just nine minutes played.
 
Suarez then scored to equalize against Chelsea shortly into the second half. Barcelona took the lead through their 20-year-old Spanish forward Sandro (right) in the 66th minute but could not hold on

England defender Gary Cahill was hit in the face as he scored Chelsea's equaliser in the 86th minute against Barcelona

Cahill put his neck on the line to equalize in the pre-season tie before being substituted as Chelsea went on to win on penalties

 

Watch Eden Hazard soul low goal

 

Frank Lampard to miss match against New England while Pilro prepare for debut

It seems like New York City FC will have to wait another week to see Frank Lampard in action with their team's colors in match play.

Several New York outlets reported on Friday that Lampard will not travel up to Foxborough, Massachusetts for Saturday night's game against the New England Revolution.

Lampard had a calf injury while training earlier this month, forcing him out of last week's match against Toronto FC. The knock is not yet fully healed, prompted NYCFC's technical staff to avoid the risk of extending the midfielder's injury.

He started training again this week, and is expected to be ready to go for next week's game against Orlando 

City SC.

If that is the case, both Lampard and fellow new arrival Andrea Pirlo could make their MLS debuts on the same day.

Bayern Munich Frank Ribery will miss start of season

Bayern Munich attacker Franck Ribery will not be fit in time for the beginning of the new season, coach Pep Guardiola has confirmed.

Ribery has not featured for the Bundesliga champions since March, after sustaining an ankle injury.

The former France international suffered a setback last month and, in a media conference during Bayern's pre-season trip to China, Guardiola revealed he would not be available for the start of their season on August 1, when they meet Wolfsburg in the German Super Cup.

"He won't be ready for the first game of the season, but it's getting better," said Guardiola. "I'm optimistic."

Bayern take on Valencia in a friendly on Saturday and Guardiola says the clash marks what he hopes will be the start of another successful campaign, after a third straight Bundesliga title for the club in 2014-15.

"We'll give it our best shot and try to do as well as we can against a Champions League team," said Guardiola. "But we're very much still in pre-season.

"We'll try to push the players even more, so we're ultimately in a position to beat the best teams in the world.

"We'll go for it again this season with everything we have."

Nigerian champions Kano Pillars fire coach Okey Emordi

Nigerian champions Kano Pillars have fired their manager Okey Emordi.

The side are struggling in the league this season they are ninth in the table and nine points behind leaders Sunshine Stars and Enyimba.

They also failed to get past the first round of the African Champions league and were knocked out of Nigeria's Federation Cup by lower league side outfit Plateau United.

The club's board will meet on Tuesday to discuss a replacement.

Players and fans passed a vote of no confidence in Emordi, who last season steered the club to a third, straight league championship