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Last Updated: December 16, 2023, 00:00 IST
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Manchester City will play Urawa Red Diamonds within the Club World Cup semifinals after the Asian champion beat León of Mexico 10 on Friday.
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: Manchester City will play Urawa Red Diamonds within the Club World Cup semifinals after the Asian champion beat León of Mexico 1-0 on Friday.
Saudi Arabian champion Al-Ittihad, captained by Karim Benzema, performed Al Ahly, the Egyptian champion of Africa, later Friday within the different second-spherical recreation. The winner will face Fluminense of Brazil within the semifinals subsequent week.
Urawa’s win was sealed with a 78th-minute aim by Dutch ahead Alex Schalk, who squeezed a low, angled shot previous advancing León goalkeeper Rodolfo Cota.
Schalk’s journey from his native Netherlands to Japan took him by way of the north of Scotland, the place he spent three seasons at Ross County, and to Switzerland with Servette, the place the primary of his 4 years was within the second division.
Urawa earned its place on the seven-workforce Club World Cup by successful the Asian Champions League in February, beating Saudi membership Al-Hilal within the ultimate. Al-Hilal has since spent lavishly on gamers from European golf equipment together with Neymar, Aleksandar Mitrović and Ruben Neves.
The final Club World Cup within the conventional brief format for continental champions plus the host nation’s home league winner is the primary to be performed in Saudi Arabia, in two stadiums in Jeddah.
Al-Ittihad will host Al Ahly in its personal King Abdullah Sports City stadium the place a crowd of greater than 50,000 noticed the workforce beat Oceania champion Auckland City 3-0 on Tuesday within the event opener.
The attendance on Friday was 2,525 at Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium to see Urawa’s win.
Man City will play Urawa at King Abdullah Sports City on Tuesday, sooner or later after the identical stadium levels Fluminense taking part in Al-Ittihad or Al Ahly.
The subsequent Club World Cup in June-July 2025 will likely be a relaunch with 32 groups — the 12 from Europe will embody current Champions League winners Man City, Real Madrid and Chelsea — and performed within the United States. The occasion will then be performed each 4 years, within the 12 months earlier than males’s World Cups.
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