FIFA Club World Cup: Manchester City crush Juventus, Real Madrid reach last 16 | Football News

Manchester City’s Erling Haaland (R) celebrates with teammate Bernardo Silva after scoring towards Juventus. (AP)

Orlando: Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City demonstrated their Club World Cup credentials with a 5-2 victory over Juventus on Thursday whereas Vinicius Junior starred as Real Madrid beat Salzburg 3-0 to safe a spot within the last 16.Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia beat Pachuca of Mexico 2-0 to pip Salzburg to the last berth within the knockout part, as Al Ain battled to a 2-1 win over Wydad Casablanca within the day’s different recreation.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!City grew to become the one facet on the event to win all three of their group matches as they put Juventus to the sword in entrance of 54,320 on the Camping World Stadium in Orlando.City now face Al Hilal, the one Asian consultant within the subsequent spherical after objectives from Salem Al-Dawsari and Brazilian Marcos Leonardo towards Pachuca.“We played well and I’m happy with the victory,” stated City winger Jeremy Doku, who opened the scoring.Doku pounced for the early opener after new arrival Rayan Ait-Nouri set him up with a intelligent ball.However City stopper Ederson handed the ball straight to Teun Koopmeiners who levelled for Juventus, in one of many few moments during which Guardiola’s crew let their focus slip.Pierre Kalulu bundled into his personal internet from Matheus Nunes’ cross to revive City’s lead.The Premier League facet, hoping to make up for a poor season by their requirements during which they completed with out a main trophy, stepped up a stage after the break with Erling Haaland’s introduction.The Norwegian striker tapped house the third after which helped create the fourth for Phil Foden, earlier than Savinho smashed house from distance for the fifth.Dusan Vlahovic netted late on for Juve but it surely didn’t take the shine off a powerful triumph for City, who have been in a position to give holding midfielder Rodri a primary begin after his lengthy damage lay-off.“Manchester City have a lot better (quality of) players than us, that’s the truth, that needs to be acknowledged,” stated Juventus coach Igor Tudor as his facet completed second in Group G.“The stars didn’t align for us to play better tonight.”Al Ain received the higher of Wydad in Washington, DC in a gathering of two groups who have been already eradicated however have been hoping to log out with a victory.South African striker Cassius Mailula blasted the Moroccans into an early lead however Togo worldwide Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba levelled from the spot simply earlier than the break for Al Ain.That was their first objective of the event after 5-0 and 6-0 thrashings by Juve and City respectively, and Paraguayan worldwide Alejandro Romero curled house from the sting of the field to earn the crew from the United Arab Emirates victory.Vinicius stars in Madrid winVinicius scored one objective and made one other with a contact of sophistication as Madrid noticed off Salzburg in Philadelphia to clinch high spot in Group H.Real play Juventus within the last 16 in Miami on Tuesday.The Brazil star Vinicius opened the scoring after an excellent defence-splitting move by Jude Bellingham on 40 minutes, to the delight of the overwhelming majority of the 64,811 crowd on a wet evening at Lincoln Financial Field. Vinicius then arrange Federico Valverde with a intelligent backheel to make it 2-0 in first-half stoppage time.Young striker Gonzalo Garcia ran by way of to wrap up the win late on together with his second objective of the event, as Xabi Alonso’s crew finish the primary spherical of FIFA’s new event unbeaten.(*16*) Alonso informed broadcaster DAZN.Real have been as soon as once more with out high scorer Kylian Mbappe, who has but to play on the event as he recovers from sickness.“We thought Kylian would make it and it wasn’t to be. Now we have four days and I want to be optimistic but cautious at the same time,” Alonso stated.