Man City crush Juventus, Real Madrid reach Club World Cup last 16
Manchester City of Pep Guardiola demonstrated its world cup references on Thursday with a 5-2 victory against Juventus while Vinicius Junior played the role of Real Madrid beat Salzburg 3-0 to guarantee a place in the last 16.
Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia beat Pachuca from Mexico 2-0 in Pip Salzburg in the last place in the direct elimination phase, while Al Ain was fighting with a 2-1 victory against Wydad Casablanca in the other match of the day.
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City became the only team of the tournament to win their three group games while putting Juventus at the sword in front of 54,320 at the Orlando World Stadium campsite.
City now faces Al Hilal, the only Asian representative in the next round after the goals of Salem al-Dawsari and Marcos Leonardo Brazilian against Pachuca.
“We played well and I am satisfied with the victory,” said city winger Jeremy Doku, who opened the scoring.
Doku jumped for the first match after arrival Rayan Ait-Nouri installed him with a smart ball.
However, City Stopper Ederson passed the ball directly to Teun Koopmeiners who leveled for Juventus, in one of the few moments when the Guardiola team left their concentration to slide.
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Pierre Kalulu has gathered his own net from the Matheus Nunes cross to restore City’s advance.
The Premier League team, hoping to compensate for a bad season according to their standards in which they finished without a major trophy, intensified a level after the break with the introduction of Erling Haaland.
The Norwegian striker typed at home the third, then helped to create the fourth for Phil Foden, before Savinho broke away for the fifth.
Dusan Vlahovic scored late for Juve, but that did not withdraw an impressive triumph for City, who was able to give Rodri midfielder a first departure after his long implementation of injuries.
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“Manchester City has much better (quality of) of the players than us, it is the truth, which must be recognized,” said Juventus coach Igor Tudor, while his team finished second in group G.
“The stars did not align us to play better tonight.”
Al Ain was right from Wydad to Washington, DC at a meeting of two teams that have already been eliminated but hoped to sign with a victory.
South African striker Cassius Mailula exploded Moroccans in an early advance, but Togo International Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba leveled the place just before the break for Al Ain.
It was their first goal of the tournament after the 5-0 and 6-0 beats of Juve and City respectively, and the international Paraguayen Alejandro Romero covered themselves with the box in the box to win the team of the victory of the United Arab Emirates.
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– Vinicius stars in Madrid Win –
Vinicius scored one goal and made another with a touch of class while Madrid saw Salzburg in Philadelphia to win first place in group H.
The real game of Juventus in the last 16 in Miami on Tuesday.
The Brazil star, Vinicius, opened the scoring after a superb defense pass from Jude Bellingham for 40 minutes, looking for the vast majority of the crowd of 64,811 during a rainy evening at Lincoln Financial Field.
Vinicius then installed Federico Valverde with an intelligent feedback rhythm to do 2-0 in the first half.
The young striker Gonzalo Garcia ran to fulfill the victory late with his second goal of the tournament, while the team of Xabi Alonso ends the first round of the new FIFA tournament Invainu.
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“I am satisfied with the boys, and now the interesting phase begins,” Alonso told Dazn diffuser.
The real one was once again without the top scorer Kylian Mbappe, who has not yet played the tournament when he recovers from the disease.
“We thought Kylian would do it and that was not the case. Now we have four days and I want to be optimistic but careful at the same time,” said Alonso.
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