Only the goal was missing! Fluminense was superior to Borussia Dortmund on the fourth day of the 2025 Club World Cup group, but the Brazilians, who had in the Colombian Jhon Arias to their most plugged footballer, did not hit the German arch and ended the match with a 0-0 and distribution of points.
The encounter between Cariocas and Germans, the first time in their history that the faces were seen, was presented at the Metlife Stadium (of New Jersey) – the New York Giants house and the New York Jets of the NFL – as the most attractive match of the group «F», which complete the South African Mamelelodi Slowns and the South Korean Ulcorean Ulsan Hyundai FC.
“Flu” raised a very intense game from the beginning, starting with a stubborn Tivote Hercules-Martinelli-Nonato that did not give facilities to the Northern Rhine team to connect with Brandt, Sabitzer or Grob and from there to be able to build danger plays.
In fact, it was the “tricolor” the ones that did more damage since the first 45 minutes; Mainly on the right side with an Arias who was victorious in most of the one against Svensson or Bensebaini, who saw the yellow in minute 1 and played conditioned since then.
The skilled attacker “coffee” served balls of many carats for Cannobio and Martinelli -who also had his options to open the score from outside the area -tried luck with two deviant shots and another two more that Gregor Kobel repelled during the first half.
The Natural of Quibdó was measured before the good streak of Borussia Dortmund, which ended the Bundesliga campaign with 6 consecutive victories and that first played in its history the FIFA Club World Cup, and approved by far the exam being the most prominent footballer of the match.
Thiago Silva and the value of experience
In the other plot of the countryside there was a thrilling clash between the couple Thiago Silva – Juan Pablo Freytes and the attacker formed by the Francoguineano Guirassy – goal man of Dortmund this season with 34 goals and 6 assists- and Adeyemi.
The experienced Carioca rear, who also started from starting with Samuel Xavier (35 years) and Fábio (44 years) in goal, adjusted the brands and paid to a more than remarkable level throughout the match.
Guirassy, Adeyemi and subsequently Nmecha barely managed to take advantage of the spaces that generated the drivers inside Brandt in a couple of opportunities.
The second part of the same way started, with Jhon Arias changed bands and then stalking the domains of Süle on the left, which was also surpassed by the international with the Colombian team.
With a very distributed possession, in the 57th minute of Rio de Janeiro they had a very clear counterattack to open the can, but Everaldo and Cannobio did not hit the play with goal and the Uruguayan culminated with a soft shot to the hands of the Swiss Kobel.
He then moved the Kovač bench because the Brazilians were superior and it was the time for the debut of Jobe Bellingham with the German squad, wearing the dorsal 77.
The former Sunderland barely left a shy attempt at goal from the front and a couple of dribbles in the core in its more than 30 minutes with the Dortmund.
Jude Bellingham’s brother (from Real Madrid) was one of the great signings of this match with the Venezuelan Yeferson Soteldo, star signing of “Flu” that will finally only start in the competition if his team passes from the group stage after falling injured with the “vinotinto” against Uruguay.
In 68, Fluminense brushed the goal again with a shot from Everaldo after corner that stopped Kobel twice, although the second – of much merit and with all favorable for Nonato – was invalidated outside the game.
In the last twenty minutes, Fluminense lost bellows and offensive flow, despite taking the mythical Argentine ram Germán Cano to the field -with great scoring records throughout his career in Colombia and Brazil, mainly. And also with good appearances of the Colombian end Kevin Serna.
BVB, on the other hand, opted for the Brazilian Yan Couto for the final bars, the game ended well and in the discount he had the option to decant him in his favor with a shot of Süle after a corner that ended up saving fable.
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Thus they aligned
– Fluminense (0): Fable; Samuel Xavier, Thiago Silva, Juan Pablo Freytes, Renê; Nonato (berry, m. 87), Matheus Martinelli (Lima, m. 76), Hercules; Jhon Arias, Agustín Canobbio (Kevin Serna, m. 70), Everaldo Stum (Germán Cano, m. 70).
– Coach: Renato Gaúcho.
– Borussia Dortmund (0): Gregor Kobel; Ryerson (Couto, m. 87), Süle, Anton, Bensebaini, Svensson; Marcel Sabitzer (Chukwueka, m. 77), Pascal Grob (Jobe Bellingham, m. 59); Julian Brandt (Bynoe-Gittens, m. 77), K. Adeyemi (nmecha, m. 59), S. Guirassy.
– Coach: Niko Kovač.
– Referee: Ilgiz Tanashev (Uzbekistan). He showed yellow card to Martinelli (m. 8) and Nonato (m. 81) of Fluminense; already Bensebaini (m. 1) and Couto (m. 90) of Borussia Dortmund.
– Incidents: Party of the fourth day of the FIFA Club World Cup. Group phase, Grupo F. played at Metlife Stadium (New Jersey, USA) before 34,736 spectators at 12:00 local time.
(With report by Guillermo Azábal, from EFE)
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