Atlanta (AP)-Serhou Guirassy stamped a couple of early goals, both assisted by Karim Adeyemi, and Borussia Dortmund bent on Tuesday 2-1 to the Monterrey of Mexico to advance to the quarterfinals of the Club World Cup.
The Dortmund, which will face Real Madrid next Saturday in New Jersey, He molded the victory thanks to the efficacy of the pair Guirassy -adeyami to culminate his rapid transitions.
At 14 minutes, Guirassy received from Adeyami on the edge of the area, faced the arch and defined with a rolling shot at the exit of Argentine goalkeeper Esteban Andrada.
The German team increased the difference to the 24 by another counterattack. Adeyami delayed the ball to Guirassy, who scored pleasure from about 15 meters.
With the breath of a massive contingent of compatriots in Atlanta, Monterrey went from less to more in the game and had Dortmund against the ropes in an exciting second half.
Just three minutes after the resumption, a center towards the distant stick deviated in the testa of a Dortmund defender. Erick Aguirre combed the ball towards Argentine striker Germán Berterame, who nodded to shrink the difference.
“I’m leaving with anger, because we played equally. We were very close to tie it,” Berterame said. “We leave Rayados on a high level. We leave a clear message that we are very competitive.”
Guirassy was born in France but plays for the National Team of Guinea. The 29 -year -old striker adds three goals in four games of this first Club World Cup with 32 teams.
It also accumulates 37 goals in all competitions in its first season with Dortmund.
“We have suffered,” Guirassy acknowledged. “They have a squad with good talented and experience players. We made a very good first half, but in the second we were complicated. But we took out the victory and we are very happy.”
The Dortmund-Real Madrid at the Metlife Stadium on Saturday, will mark the reunion of the leading teams of the 2024 Champions League final. The Spanish giant won 2-0 at the Wembley Stadium in London for its 15th consecration-a record figure-as European champion.
In the afternoon, in Miami, Madrid beat Juventus in Turin 1-0.
Jobe Bellingham was admonished at 28 minutes and the encounter against Madrid and his brother Jude will be lost – who played in the Dortmund before signing with the meringues – for accumulation of cards.
The elimination of scratches also prevented Sergio Ramos – the inexhaustible 39 -year -old Spanish central – had to run into the team in which European champion was crowned four times.
“Both the fan and the one who knows football has seen that the team has delivered the soul,” said Ramos, who signed with the scratches at the beginning of the year. “Mexican football is something that is growing, little by little, with a projection and talent very comparable to the big leagues.”
With the speed of the Colombian steering wheel Nelson Deossa and the veteran attacker Jesús “Tecatito” Corona, the scratches went on to dominate the duel – having a 59% advantage in possession – and had several occasions to level. But Niko Kovac’s team knew how to resist.
“It did not reach us,” said Domenec Torrent, the Spanish coach who only took the reins of the Regiomontano team. “It was what he said of the German teams: in 15 minutes, in two cons, they mark you. But I am proud of how we finished the game.”
The meetings attracted a concurrence of 31,442 spectators to the Mercedes-Benz roofed stadium in the center of Atlanta.
Dortmund’s victory said five of the eight teams in the quarterfinals are from Europe. Monterrey was the last North American set that followed in races. The other three non -European are the Brazilians Palmeiras and Fluminense and the Saudi to the Hilal.
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