Jeremy Doku presented a brilliant display with a lot of support and the help of the opposition while Manchester City beat Juventus 5-2 in the decisive match in the G group of the club World Cup Thursday in Orlando.
“We have played well. I am satisfied with victory,” said Doku. “Now we are just curious to see who we are going to play against.”
Manchester City later learned that his 16 -year -old enemy will be Al Hilal from Saudi Arabia, with the match on Monday in Orlando.
Defender’s blunder Pierre Kalulu on a cross of Savinho exceeded his own goalkeeper and pushed the city in the lead, 2-1, in the 26th minute. In the 52nd minute, striker Erling Haaland scored while swinging his feet with a touch that was delimited in a net open on a dish of Matheus Nunes. It was the 300th goal in combined career for the team and the country for the 24 -year -old Norwegian at his seventh minute from the match on Thursday.
Phil Foden entered the Manchester City bench in the 66th minute and hit the fourth goal of his team from the match three minutes later. Haaland’s 75th minute header failed, only for Savinho to feed a rebound in the transverse bar and in order to do it 5-1.
Juventus has reduced the deficit on an escape from the 84th minute of Dusan Vlahovic, who scored for the second consecutive match.
The teams actually linked the entrance to the match with two victories each, Man City jumped Juventus at the top of the table in a decisive victory that also struck them at the top of the tournament with 13 goals. City (3-0-0, 9 points) has become the only club to win the three games in the group phase.
As the winner of group G, City will remain in Orlando to oppose Al Hilal, who beat Pachuca 2-0 later Thursday to finish second in group H. Juventus (2-1-0, 6 points) heads for Miami Gardens, Florida, as a finalist in group G. Their next match is against the H Winner Real Madrid group, who unrolled Rb Salzbub THURSDAY.
Man City went before 2-1 and held the margin at halftime, first marking the brand nine minutes when Doku hit the brakes in front of the net and found the upper right corner.
TEUN KOOPMEINERS DE LA JUVENTUS equalized the scoring two minutes later, but it was the final indication of a narrow battle.
The victory was the pure and simple first of Man City during Juventus since 1976.
– field level media