- La Liga champions emerge victorious
- Impressive strikes in Dallas
- Morale booster ahead of 2023-24 season
WHAT HAPPENED? The reigning La Liga champions proved too strong for their arch-rivals at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas. A convincing win was wrapped up late on, but it was World Cup winner Dembele that put the Blaugrana on their way to a morale-boosting success inside 15 minutes. The France international collected the ball wide on the right and, from a tight angle, crashed a curling effort into the bottom corner with the outside of his boot.
THE BIGGER PICTURE: Fermin Lopez – the promising 20-year-old midfielder – struck Barcelona’s second of the game with another impressive effort, before Ferran Torres rounded off the scoring in stoppage-time.
WHAT NEXT? Barca will be hoping to see Dembele star throughout the 2023-24 campaign, but he is generating intense transfer talk at present as he is linked with a big-money move back to his homeland at Ligue 1 title holders Paris Saint-Germain.