The defense of Manchester City of the FIFA Club World Cup (CWC) came to an exciting end in Orlando, when Hilal already organized a remarkable comeback to achieve 4-3 winners and progress to the quarterfinals, ending the 100% winning record of Pep Guardiola in this Competition in this Competition.
Big Pre -Match Favorites Man City stepped on a perfect one – albeit the controversial start – then at nine minutes, Bernardo Silva tapped home from close by after a clearance in his path was blocked by Ilkay Gundogan in the six -yard box. A VAR assessment for handball against the German was quickly fired, but the repetition shown on the big screen led to noisy protests of the Al Hilal players who saw the restart delayed.
The side of Simone Inzaghi tried to channel that feeling of injustice in an immediate response, but despite a number of neat passages of playing, Ederson remained unprocessed when his side could not register a shot on goal before the break.
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The opposite was on the other hand, where Yassine Bounou Save made after Save to deny the city onslaught for a second goal. Erling Haaland saw his header throwing the bar, while Sharp Reflex Saves Savinho and Jeremy Doku denied to keep the shortage of Al Hilal on one way to HT.
The heroic deeds of Bounou looked more heroic then, with the Inzaghi team that still sounded in their ears, already organized a remarkable change to turn the game upside down within seven minutes after the restart. Firstly, Marcos Leonardo clambed an equalizer after City failed to handle a cross from the right wing, before Malcom was cut and sprinted from his own half to throw past Edererson and to lead the Saudi side.
Their cheers, however, took all three minutes, because Haaland struck 55 minutes after the men of Inzaghi could not free up an angle. The chaotic character of the game took place when Malcolm thought he had won a penalty in the immediate aftermath of the fourth goal of the game, but was refused by a marginal offside in the structure.
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With the players noticeably tiring, the pace of the game fell and it was inevitable after Ali Lajami had yielded an excellent goal to deny Haaland a late winner.
The Al Hilal players had looked exhausted at the end of the regulation time, but they started in a perfect way when the Pinpoint Corner of Rúben Neves brilliantly passed the helpless goldson through Kalidou Koulibaly.
Guardiola responded with the introduction of Phil Foden, and it immediately gave up when he produced an excellent first finish to bring the 3-3 of the amazing cross of Rayan Cherki.
Physically marking both sides, Hilal already landed the Knock -out Klap in the 113rd minute. Ederson produced an excellent rescue with one hand to deny Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, but he could only push the ball on the path of Marcos Leonardo, who almost fell into the net with the ball to place his side in the quarterfinals where they encounter.
Flash score Man of the match: Yassine Bounou (Al Hilal)
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