Real Madrid beat Salzburg to meet Juventus, Man City get Al Hilal

Spain’s Real Madrid to conscionable Italy’s Juventus successful FIFA Club World Cup aft eliminating Salzburg, Man City look Al Hilal.

Real Madrid swept past Red Bull Salzburg with a 3-0 win successful their last Group H lucifer to acceptable up a circular of 16 gathering with Juventus astatine the FIFA Club World Cup.

Vinicius Junior and Federico Valverde netted first-half goals for the Spanish giants successful the lucifer successful Philadelphia connected Thursday.

Gonzalo Garcia added the 3rd successful the 84th infinitesimal for Madrid successful a 2nd consecutive multi-goal triumph pursuing a tournament-opening gully against Al Hilal.

The effect eliminated Real’s Austrian opponents arsenic Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal leapt supra Salzburg with their 2-0 triumph against Mexico’s Pachuca.

Manchester City beat Juventus 5-2 earlier successful the time and, arsenic Group H winners, volition present look Al Hilal successful the adjacent round.

Real Madrid’s Brazilian guardant #07 Vinicius Junior, right, scores his team’s archetypal extremity [Franck Fife/AFP]

The decision was Salzburg’s 2nd nonaccomplishment to Real Madrid successful 2025 aft a 5-1 nonaccomplishment successful Spain successful the league signifier of the UEFA Champions League.

Madrid, five-time winners of the competition, were much businesslike than dominant. The teams had 12 shots apiece, with the victors’ 4 attempts connected extremity lone 1 much than Salzburg’s three.

Madrid again played without Kylian Mbappe, who has yet to diagnostic successful the tourney owed to a tummy unwellness that near him concisely hospitalised.

But Vinicius Junior did capable to compensate for the Frenchman’s lack connected Thursday.

He failed to person the game’s archetypal changeable connected target, denied connected the interruption by Christian Zawieschitzky aft Jude Bellingham had played him into a 20th-minute breakaway.

But 2 superb moments implicit a five-minute agelong tilted the crippled squarely successful Madrid’s favour.

Real Madrid’s Gonzalo Garcia scores their 3rd extremity [Susana Vera/Reuters]

In the 40th minute, the Brazilian ran onto different terrific shot retired of the backmost from Bellingham, earlier weaving near connected the dribble to evade defender Joane Gadou. He drove an aboriginal debased decorativeness good retired of Zawieschitzky’s scope and into the bottommost close corner.

In the 45th, helium reached Arda Guler’s deflected walk connected the close broadside of the container earlier directing a backheel walk to a wide-open Valverde down him for an arsenic objective decorativeness past Zawieschitzky.

Bellingham had the adjacent important involution successful the 66th minute, blocking Edmund Baidoo’s effort disconnected the enactment with Thibaut Courtois beaten.

Real volition present look Juventus successful Miami connected Tuesday, portion City enactment successful Orlando for their circular of 16 lucifer with Al Hilal connected Monday.

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