Elano scores twice as Brazil beat Argentina 3-0 in London

LONDON, Sep 3 (Reuters) Elano scored twice and substitute Kaka netted a fine solo goal to give Brazil a 3-0 win over Argentina in their friendly at the Emirates stadium today.

Brazil opened the scoring after three minutes when they broke towards Argentina's goal with Robinho threading a diagonal ball to Elano on the right whose shot went in at the near post after a slight deflection from Daniel Bilos.

The Ukraine-based Elano struck again in the 68th when he rifled a shot past Argentina goalkeeper Roberto Abbondanzieri from the right after the inventive Kaka exchanged passes with striker Fred in a diagonal move from left midfield.

Kaka got on the scoresheet himself when he robbed Messi inside the Brazil half and ran 60 metres leaving defenders in his wake to steer the third goal past a helpless Abbondanzieri from just inside the box with two minutes to go.

Argentina, though well beaten, had chances and early in the second half right back Pablo Zabaleta should have scored from Luis Gonzalez's back-heel to make the score 1-1 but his shot across curled away from the far past after beating keeper Gomes.

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