Gareth Bale shines as Madrid ends U.S. tour
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gareth bale has served notice that he is ready to shine without cristiano ronaldo factoring in both goals as real madrid wrapped up their us tour with a 2-1 win over roma on tuesday1 bale and marco asensio scored for real madrid who put on a strong performance especially in the first half of the international champions cup friendly at metlife stadium in new jersey1 real madrid is hoping bale is ready to fully evolve into the player they signed for a world record fee in 20131 the 33-year-old ronaldo ended a nine-year spell at real madrid by recently signing with italian champions juventus1 were scoring goals and were winning matches so were doing well bale said. we have to keep improving and were really looking forward to starting the new season1 asensio with his third goal of the preseason opened the scoring just two minutes into the contest. bale delivered a brilliant pass to the foot of asensio and he found the back of the net1 real madrid struck again in the 15th minute as bale would score this time taking an equally superb pass from dani carvajal. bale walked in and beat goalkeeper robin olsen to make it 2-01 real madrid wasnt nearly as dominant in the second half as most of their starting squad was subbed off1 kevin strootman made it interesting by scoring in the 83rd minute for roma1 strootman was left wide open off a throw-in and headed pass and all he had to do was hammer it past the startled real madrid goalkeeper1