Pre-season friendlies - Sun 17th July

A round-up of pre-season friendlies involving Barclays Premier League clubs.

Manchester City kicked off their pre-season tour of North America with a comfortable 2-0 victory over Mexican side Club America.Ryan McGivern and Shaun Wright-Phillips were on target in the first half for Roberto Mancini's team in front of 11,250 fans at AT&T Park.Summer signings Stefan Savic and Gael Clichy were handed debuts along with Swiss youngster Freddie Veseli in an unfamiliar starting line-up.Northern Ireland defender McGivern opened the scoring after 17 minutes, pouncing on the loose ball and curling home a neat finish after Edin Dzeko's effort had been cleared.Ten minutes later, City had their second. Wright-Phillips, who had set up Dzeko in the build-up to the first goal, picked up possession outside the box and lashed a low drive into the bottom-right corner.Of the team that played in the first half, only Vladimir Weiss remained on the pitch after the interval as Mancini made 10 changes to give the rest of his squad a run-out. John Guidetti struck the post in the final minute but there was to be no third goalSunderland came from behind to draw against Arminia Bielefeld.Stephane Sessegnon netted 18 minutes from time for Sunderland at the Schuco Arena to cancel out a controversial penalty that had given the German third division side the lead in the 64th minute.John O'Shea, David Vaughan Seb Larsson and Ji Dong-Won all made their debuts, although O'Shea was taken off after 33 minutes as a precaution after picking up a knock. Fellow new signing Connor Wickham played the second half, while Craig Gardner also came on as a substitute.Meanwhile Ben Marshall and Diego Arismendi scored two apiece as a Stoke City XI beat Newport YMCA 6-1 in their third pre-season friendly.Matthew Lund and Rory Delap scored the Potters' other goals.Thomas Sorensen again failed to make an appearance, while Jonathan Woodgate is expected to make his debut for the club against Newcastle Town on Wednesday or Brentford on Friday.At the Lamex Stadium, a Fulham XI including new signing John Arne Riise was beaten 1-0 by Stevenage.Riise started at left-back for the Cottagers alongside other first-team stars Stephen Kelly, Philippe Senderos, Dickson Etuhu and Steve Sidwell.It was Stevenage who came out on top, though, with Robin Shroot netting the winner 10 minutes from time