As his anthem says, “beats Fluminense”. And Tricolor continues to win and make history in this Club World Cup. This Friday (4), the Rio team beat Al-Hilal 2-1, in a game valid for the quarterfinals.
The goals that rated Tricolor for the semifinal were scored by Martinelli and Hercules. Marcos Leonardo scored the only goal of the Saudi team at Camping World Stadium in Orlando.
Now Flu is a game of the grand final of the Club World Cup. The next opponent leaves Palmeiras x Chelsea, which takes place this Friday.
The semifinal with the Rio team in the field takes place next Tuesday (8), at 16h, at Metlife Stadium, in New Jersey.
How was Fluminense’s victory
In a very intense start of the game, but little action, the first half of Fluminense x al-Hilal began to gain emotion from 30 minutes.
Tricolor’s first goal came out on 39 minutes with Martinelli. Fuentes took advantage of João Cancelo’s fool in the area and touched the shirt 8, which turned on Milinkovic-Savic and hit a kick in the left angle of Bono.
The disadvantage on the scoreboard forced the Saudi team to have more momentum in front. On 45 minutes, Koulibaly took advantage of Rúben Neves and headed, forcing goalkeeper Fabio to do a miracle, spread out.
Minutes later, the referee even marked a penalty to Al-Hilal after a touch of Samuel Xavier in Marcos Leonardo. VAR went into action and, after checking, the referee returned behind his decision.
The second half came, and al-Hilal wasted no time to leave everything the same on the scoreboard. At 5, after a corner kick, Marcos Leonardo took advantage of Koulibaly’s header and, without being harassed by anyone from Flu in the small area, puffed out the net of goalkeeper Fabio.
The goal of the Saudi team made the game even more open, with both teams losing clear chances of expanding the marker.
Fluminense responded on 9 minutes, in counterattack, with germán pipe. The Argentine lost an unbelievable goal in front of goalkeeper Bono. The next minute, Milinkovic-Savic took danger in kick in the right corner, defended by Fabio.
The Saudi team rehearsed a game domain when Tricolor became ahead on the scoreboard. Hercules, who left his mark against Inter Milan, was decisive again. At 24 minutes, shirt 35 broke into the area and kicked cross to score Flu’s second goal.
With the advantage under his arm, Fluminense still threatened Bono’s goal with Arias and, in the final minutes, managed to hold the sequence of shower and corner of the Saudi team to the final whistle.
