Mamelodi Sundowns achieved their very first victory over a FIFA Club World Cup (CWC) with a 1-0 win over Ulsan HD in Orlando, which means that the Tigers have now lost eight of their last nine games against foreign opposition.
2025 Club World Cup
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- IQraam Rayners (36 ')
Match report
Ulsan came into play in the hope that having previous experience with the CWC would be of good service to them, after playing in the tournament in the tournament in 2012 and 2020.
However, it was the sunset that started the game, the better from the two parties and they thought they had taken the lead after 29 minutes, when Iqraam Rayners sent a corner in the nearby pole.
But the goal was excluded after a VAR evaluation after the attacker was ruled to have received the last touch with his hand.
Rayners gave the South African side the lead only seven minutes later, racing on a Lucas Ribeiro through the ball, before he found the top left corner with a wonderful finish with the outside of his right foot.
Ulsan almost managed to equalize the right on the edge of HT, since Seong-Beom Ko's loop effort to the right-right corner of the line walked through Divine Lunga.
The start of the second half saw the small goal-mouth promotion with the best chance that came eight minutes after the break, when Ribeiro looked an attempt in the Extoon at the top left watch, but the efforts of the Brazilian was thwarted by a brilliant block of an Ulsan defender.
As the second half progressed, the hope of an equalizer began to fade for the tigers, while the sunset looked in the total control of the game when it approached the last 10 minutes.
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The Sundowns succeeded in resisting some late pressure from the Korean champions and were ultimately able to claim a valuable victory in which the men of Miguel Cardoso claim first place in group F, after the 0-0-equal game of Dortmund and Fluminense earlier today.
In the meantime, Ulsan will now be confronted with an extremely heavy task if they want to continue with them from the group now rooted to fourth place.
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Line-ups
Ulsan HD XI: Lee, Kim Young-Gwon, Jung Woo-Young, Darijan Bojanic, Cho Hyun-Woo, Milosz Trojak, Seung-Beom Ko, Erick Farias, Gustav Ludwigson, Won-Sang Um, Myeong-Kwan Seo
Subs: Kim Min-woo, Sang-Woo Kang, Min-Hyuk Kim, Jung-in Moon, Jin-Hyun Lee, Jae-I Lee, Min-Seo Park, Hui-Gyun Lee, Matías Lacava, Yago Cariello, Yool Heo, Seek-Hyon, Min-Waoi, Min-Won
Mamelodi Sunday XI: Ronwen Williams, Grant Kekana, Themba Zwane, Iqraam Rayners, Marcelo Allende, Keanu Cupido, Teboo Mokoena, Khuliso Mudau, Divine Lunga, Lucas Ribeiro, Arthur Sales
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