Kylian Mbappé’s spectacular bicycle kick was amongst three objectives in second-half stoppage time, and Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund 3-2 in a Club World Cup quarterfinal match as goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois used his fingertips to palm away the potential tying purpose on the sport’s remaining play.
Gonzalo García and Fran García scored in the primary 20 minutes as Madrid constructed a 2-0 lead on Saturday.
Dortmund’s Maximilian Beier scored three minutes into stoppage time and Mbappé, who entered in the 67th, restored a two-goal lead together with his bicycle kick one minute later.
Serhou Guirassy transformed a penalty kick in the eighth minute of added time after he was fouled by Dean Huijsen, who obtained a crimson card and can miss the semifinals.
Courtois used the entire prolonged arm on his 6-foot-7 body to tip away Marcel Sabitzer’s shot simply earlier than the ultimate whistle.
Madrid superior to a semifinal match towards Champions League winner Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday (July 9, 2025), a day after Chelsea meets Brazilian membership Fluminense.
On a sunny afternoon with an 86-degree (30-degree Celsius) temperature on the 3 pm kickoff, Gonzalo García scored in the tenth minute and Fran García in the twentieth.
Gonzalo García, a 21-year-old who made solely 5 Spanish league appearances in the previous two seasons, was given the beginning by new Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso over Mbappé, nonetheless regaining health after acute gastroenteritis. García has 4 objectives, tying Benfica’s Ángel Di María and Al Hilal’s Marcos Leonardo for the event lead.
Mbappé got here on for Jude Bellingham, who missed an opportunity to play towards his brother Jobe, who was suspended for yellow-card accumulation.
Madrid beat Dortmund 2-0 in the 2024 Champions League remaining and overcame a two-goal halftime deficit in a 5-2 victory of this season’s league part. Los Blancos have been eradicated by Arsenal in this 12 months’s Champions League quarterfinals.
Madrid has received 5 consecutive video games towards Dortmund and is unbeaten in seven since a 2014 Champions League quarterfinal defeat.
American midfielder Gio Reyna did not get off the bench and completed the event with one 13-minute look for Dortmund in 5 matches.
This recreation drew 76,611 to MetLife Stadium, website of subsequent 12 months’s World Cup remaining. Seats regarded crammed, apart from a totally empty suite degree on one facet.
There was a second of silence earlier than kickoff for Liverpool’s Diogo Jota and his brother, Penafiel’s André Silva, who died in a automotive crash Thursday.
Key second
Courtois’ remaining save on the sport’s remaining play to protect the victory.
Takeaways
Construction to take away seats in the corners enabled a 74-by-114-yard (68-by-105-meter) discipline, wider than for matches through the 2016 and 2024 Copa America tournaments.
