O Al-Hilal won the Pachuca 2-0 this Thursday (26) for the third and last round of the group stage of the Club World FIFA. At Geodis Park in Nashville, Salem Al-Dawsari opened the scoring for the Saudi club in the first half.
Only in the additions of the match the al-Hilal expanded, with Marcos Leonardo, who received alone near the large area, dribbled the goalkeeper and scored the second goal of the match.
With the victory, Al-Hilal reached five points, took second place, and secured the classification for the round of 16 of the competition. Thus, the team led by Simone Inzaghi will face Manchester City in the next phase and was on the side of.
Real Madrid beat RB Salzburg also on Thursday and took the first place in Group H, and went to the other side of the key, facing Juventus in the round of 16.
Pachuca arrived in the game already eliminated from the World Cup and leaves the competition without winning any points. Now the team returns the attention to the MX League, the Mexican Championship.
The game
Al-Hilal and Pachuca’s first half began warm, without great emotions. Even in need of victory to follow in the competition, Al-Hilal didn’t start the game by pressing much.
Milinkovic-Savic swayed the net on the four minutes, but was worth nothing. The referee scored the player’s lack at the beginning of the play.
Only after 20 minutes did al-Hilal take danger again. Malcom had a good chance, but sent out. Shortly thereafter, Salem Al-Dawsari dominated and covered Pachuca’s goalkeeper, Sebastian Jurado, making a great goal and opening the scoring.
After the goal, the Saudi team arrived with Salem and Marcos Leonardo, but without creating such clear chances. At the end of the first stage, it was Pachuca that scared. At 41, Palavecino hit crossing, forcing Bono to make the defense.
With Real Madrid’s partial victory against RB Salzburg at the same time, Al-Hilal entered the second half to hold the score and ensure the classification.
Despite mastering the match, Simone Inzaghi’s team was not objective when creating and once again the game was warm.
Only after 35 minutes did Al-Hilal have clear chances. Marcos Leonardo tabulated with Malcom and came out to the goal covering the goalkeeper, but Bauermann managed to save on the line.
Pachuca also managed to arrive. Hernandez headed and the ball went very close to the post. And the al-Hilal responded with counterattack, but Kanno stopped in a jury.
The game was there and here in the final minutes, with Pachuca also throwing itself into the attack. In additions, Marcos Leonardo received alone, dribbled the goalkeeper and expanded to Al-Hilal, closing the score 2-0 for the Saudi team.
Eighth of the World Cup end
As start on Saturday (28) with the Brazilian confrontation between Palmeiras and Botafogo. Al-Hilal faces Manchester City next Monday (30), at 22h (Brasília time).
The octaves run until Tuesday (1) and the Wednesdays start only on Friday, July 4th. Who advances the confrontation between Al-Hilal and City
