Rashford debuts while Yamal fires as Barcelona hit Como for five

Manchester United loanee Marcus Rashford debuts for Barca arsenic Lamine Yamal scores doubly successful 5-0 triumph against Como.

Reigning Spanish champions Barcelona completed their pre-season preparations by thrashing Italian broadside Como 5-0 successful a crippled which signalled a thawing of relations with goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen.

Barca besides gave Marcus Rashford a substitute’s quality connected Sunday, 2 weeks aft the England guardant joined connected loan from Manchester United.

Double strikes from Fermin Lopez and Lamine Yamal and a first-half extremity from Brazilian Raphinha completed the rout successful the Joan Gamper Trophy.

With the crippled played astatine the Johan Cruyff Stadium wrong the team’s grooming complex, portion Barcelona hold for the heavy delayed modernisation of the Camp Nou to beryllium completed, Hansi Flick’s squad showed fluency arsenic they hole to statesman their Liga rubric defence distant to Mallorca connected Saturday.

Before kickoff connected Sunday, Ter Stegen gave the accepted captain’s code from the pitch, conscionable days aft his dispute with the club implicit the handling of his backmost wounded broke to the surface.

“I deliberation it was important to resoluteness the contented betwixt the nine and me, and present it’s clip to look forward,” said the 33-year-old German goalkeeper, 2 days aft having his captaincy restored.

“We’re going to combat again for each the trophies and we anticipation that with your assistance we tin triumph each the titles possible,” Ter Stegen told the fans.

Rashford saw mixed fortunes, providing the transverse for Raphinha to people but besides blowing the accidental to pat into an bare net.

Como, who are managed by erstwhile Barcelona and Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas, had seen their erstwhile lucifer – astatine Real Betis – descend into violence.

The Italians are touring Spain arsenic portion of their warm-up for the caller season, but the affable connected Wednesday with erstwhile Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini’s Betis saw 2 players sent disconnected arsenic punches were exchanged during a brawl. Como yet won the lucifer 3-2.

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