Man City hit Juventus for five at FIFA Club World Cup

English broadside Manchester City bushed Italy’s Juventus 5-2 successful Orlando astatine FIFA’s Club World Cup staged successful United States.

Manchester City sealed apical spot successful Group G with a 5-2 thumping of Juventus successful Orlando astatine the FIFA Club World Cup.

Jeremy Doku enactment connected a superb show with plentifulness of support, and immoderate assistance from the opposition, successful Thursday’s crippled arsenic the English broadside sealed a 3rd triumph from their 3 games successful the group.

Juventus, similar City, had already sealed qualification for the circular of 16 with 2 wins successful their opening 2 games.

“We played well. I’m blessed with the victory,” City guardant Doku said. “Now we’re conscionable funny to spot who we’re going to play against.”

Defender Pierre Kalulu’s gaffe connected a transverse from Savinho past his ain keeper nudged City into the lead, 2-1, astatine the 26th minute.

In the 52nd minute, striker Erling Haaland scored portion shuffling his feet with a interaction that bounded into an unfastened nett connected a crockery from Matheus Nunes. It was the 300th vocation extremity combined for squad and state for the 24-year-old Norwegian successful lone his seventh infinitesimal successful Thursday’s match.

Manchester City’s Jeremy Doku scores their archetypal extremity against Juventus [Amanda Perobelli/Reuters]

Phil Foden entered disconnected the seat and tapped successful the 4th extremity of the lucifer successful the 69th minute. Haaland’s header failed lone for Savinho to powerfulness a rebound disconnected the crossbar and into the extremity to marque it 5-1 successful the 75th minute.

Juventus trimmed the pb connected a breakaway from Dusan Vlahovic, who scored for the 2nd consecutive lucifer with conscionable implicit 5 minutes to play.

Juventus had led the radical connected extremity quality entering the match, but City’s triumph took them to the apical and besides bumped them to the apical of the tournament’s goalscoring database with 13 strikes.

City besides became the lone nine to triumph each 3 matches successful the radical stage.

As the Group G winner, City stays successful Orlando for Monday’s circular of 16 lucifer with the Group H runner-up.

The hostile volition beryllium determined by Thursday’s aboriginal lucifer betwixt RB Salzburg and Real Madrid. Juventus caput to Miami arsenic the runner-up successful the group.

Man City went up 2-1 and held the borderline astatine halftime, marking archetypal astatine the nine-minute people erstwhile Doku deed the brakes successful beforehand of the nett and recovered the apical close corner.

Teun Koopmeiners evened the people 2 minutes later, but that was the last denotation of a adjacent tussle.

The triumph was Man City’s archetypal outright implicit Juventus since 1976.

🔝 @ManCity shine, @JuventusFC assertion 2nd spot. ✌️#FIFACWC

— FIFA Club World Cup (@FIFACWC) June 26, 2025

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