
Al Hilal players celebrate after winning a match during Fifa Club World Cup against Manchester City at Camping World Stadium, Orlando, Florida, US on June 30, 2025. — Reuters
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Saudi Arabia’s team Al-Hilal on Monday destroyed the English jinn Manchester City from the Club World Cup, and won 4-3 in extra time in the biggest trouble of the tournament so far.
The match ended 2-2 last time, but at an extra time, Marcus Leonardo grabbed the winner and pulled one of the biggest wins in the Middle East football history.
The Saudi club has reached the quarter -finals where they will face Brazil’s club Fluminis, ensuring that the non -European team will reach the last four.
The city of Pep Gardola came into the game with confidence in his last group game after removing 5-2 from Jonets, but he was upset by Almighty and determined Al-Hilal, under the new Italian coach Simon Injaigi.
In the ninth minute, City took the lead and was controversial.
Ryan Atta exploded in the box and his cross took two defects before landing on Bernardo Silva’s feet, which collided with the house.
But El Hilal’s players insisted that the stadium screen had controlled the ball with his arm after showing the incident and their protests intensified.
But Venezuela’s referee Jesus Velenzuela was unfounded by the players who delayed the resume and urged him to check the monitor and his purpose stands.
The city had many opportunities to increase its lead before a break, but a collection of poor completion and encouragement goal capping by Moroccan goalkeeper Yasin Bono maintained the lead on one goal.
Both Sono and Elie Gundoggan were closely refused to range by Boweno, which then did a good job to tip the Josco Gordoli header over the bar.
Al -Hilal offered numerous reminders of his danger at intervals, but with the city, Jeremy Doko offers more possibilities with being straight in the Bono, which has once again reacted strongly to maintain Bernardo’s efforts.
The city was punished
About the question of whether the city would survive for not changing these possibilities that it was answered within a minute of resume.
Former City Philback Joyo Kensalo’s Lou Cross was pulled out by Adsen, Malcolm leaned, but saw that Robin Diaes just blocked his shot to bring Marcus Leonardo to the house to go home.
Six minutes later and the city’s high defensive line was exposed by a long cano ball, which Brazil’s Malcolm raided and showed electricity and speed when he broke down before cooling Edison in the past.
The Saudi fans in the crowd became wild while Pip Gardola immediately responded immediately with a triple replacement with Midfielder Rodri and the guards Nathan Akay and Manuel Akanji.
This brought a lot of stability to the backline, but the city also needed improvement at the other end and it still came.
El Hilal Defense Bernardo was unable to cope with the corner, and Erilling Netherlands asked to run the lost ball in the house and make it 2-2.
The city pile up pressure when he was looking for the winner, but still Bono proved his semiscence because he denied Akanji and Robin Diaes, and even when it was beaten by the Netherlands, Alternative Ali Lajami created an excellent goal of the goal line.
Gardola landed the Netherlands and introduced Egyptian forward Omar Marmosh when the game went into extra time.
But for all the depths of the city, Al -Hilal had a deep well of the soul, and in the opening period, Al -Halal took the lead in just four minutes when the Calido Collabole woke up well with a brilliant angle header to meet a Robin Nevis corner.
City responded with a goal of real quality when Ryan Charki’s brilliantly floating ball was extended to the previous post, Phil Foden fully and with the toughest of angles, the house with a master’s house.
But incredibly Al Hilal responded once again to restore his lead.