⚽ FIFA Club World Cup 2025 - USA: Discussion Thread ⚽

[Bd officer]

Wow finally Man City won 5-2, I thought the match would be very competitive but Juventus were very weak as an opposing team, Juventus did not expect such a poor performance from the team players. Possession and Passes Man City were far ahead, Juventus managed to take only 5 shots in the entire game. However, Man City finished the group stage at the number 1 position in the points table after winning 3 consecutive matches. I bet on Man City in this match, thought it would be difficult for Man City to win, but I didn't expect to win so easily.

[MainIbem]

Madrid would be taking on Salzburg in their last group game and this game would determine who's finishing as group leaders, you'd agree with me that Salzburg have been doing pretty well in this very competition and as for Madrid, they haven't had that speed when it comes to this competition and they have been poor. Looks like since last season is the game against Pachuca that we saw them play like the Madrid we ones knew, with a one man down they still came out with that fighting spirit to get not just 3pt but also 3 goals, the question is can they repeat same thing or something much better against Salzburg?

They're currently leading by 2 goals, both goals were scored in the 1st half by Vinicious Junior and Valverde, it seems that Real Madrid might likely scored another one again due to much pressure they're giving to Salzburg. Real are already leading the group and they want to finish this phase without much stress, unfortunately for Salzburg they might not go to the next round cause Al Hilal is winning Pachuca, they're leading by a goal and have occupied the second position. Anyways Real Madrid have given you the answer you need, they've not only finished the group stage as leader of their group but they've played better against Salzburg.

[JeffBrad12]

Juventus is too easy for City. This is what i'd like to see from Pep's squad. City play more collective in this game. They passing more aggressively, and became even more creative. They also often very often did rotation all over the pitch to ensure Juve would not get chance to press and counter them.
They could win it with 5-1 if there would be no miss communication between Ederson and Bernardo Silva. All of their new signings have been so impressive.

It seems Pep is successfully rebuilding back his winning club again.
City is the only team that is winning three games in the group stage. They're cooking.

[Out of mind]

Manchester City vs Juventus was a strong attack between the two teams, Manchester City won 5-2. And both teams qualified for the round of 16, I bet on Manchester City between these two teams and I won. Manchester City and Juventus qualified for the next round from Group G.
Group H Real Madrid qualified for the next round by winning against their opponents, and I also bet on Madrid which won. From Group H, Real Madrid and Al Hilal qualified for the round of 16.

[Adbitco]

Salzburg 0 Vs Real Madrid 3 FT
After the first official game of Xabi Alonso in charge of Real Madrid Vs Al Hilal that saw his team play out a 1 - 1 draw, people were already calling out the coach and saying lot's of things against, some even questioned why he was made manager. They forgot so soon that he's just new to the team and was his first game. I know it's yet to earlier but I see Alonso in the right path and taking Real Madrid to a greater height. I see another Zidane in Alonso, infact he will be a better manager than Zidane for the club. He needs to be allowed to do his job.

[CryptoBuds]

Manchester City vs Juventus was a strong attack between the two teams, Manchester City won 5-2. And both teams qualified for the round of 16, I bet on Manchester City between these two teams and I won. Manchester City and Juventus qualified for the next round from Group G.

This was one of the most competitive matches of the FIFA Club World Cup. Both teams performed well. However, Manchester City performed well, apart from their best player Haaland in the  starting XI. Manchester City players managed to score 5 goals. I am looking forward to seeing Manchester City's comeback next season.

In this match , Juventus tried to draw the match. The team tried to play defensively  from the beginning of the match. In the first half , Juventus players were able to make only 2 shots, where Manchestercity players made 15 shots. In the second half, Manchester City played with a completely attacking strategy, but juventus played defensively as usual.

[Adbitco]

Manchester city stole the entire game from the stats.
I couldn't watch this match live, as I had a lot of paperwork on my desk to execute with a very little available time. I was only following the live scores update and which I found very surprising that Juventus could let Manchester city to discipline them with such goals margin. A clean indication that Juventus has yet made any improvements in their squad depth with this window transfer after they had a poor campaign last season in all competitions.

This is crazy a star, total domination from all angles as it's clearly seen, even teams that attacks often finds it hard to keep up the stats with Manchester City not to talk of a defensive team like Juventus. The game was totally one sided as the goals kept in pouring. From the beginning City were the clear favourites no doubt about that. Juventus will have to face Real Madrid in the Round of 16 after coming second in the group and Real Madrid coming first in their own group after defeating Salzburg.

[Nheer]

Manchester City vs Juventus was a strong attack between the two teams, Manchester City won 5-2. And both teams qualified for the round of 16, I bet on Manchester City between these two teams and I won. Manchester City and Juventus qualified for the next round from Group G.
Group H Real Madrid qualified for the next round by winning against their opponents, and I also bet on Madrid which won. From Group H, Real Madrid and Al Hilal qualified for the round of 16.

You gambled well, the chances of Manchester city winning was really high and it seems their attacking strength has really increased and I have been so impressed with their recent performance. I expected Juventus to at least put up a strong fight but it seems they were not up the task, they were bearly creating chances for themselves. The next stage of the competition is the most crucial one where there would be no room for a mistake and any team not up to the task will simply be eliminated.

Salzburg 0 Vs Real Madrid 3 FT
After the first official game of Xabi Alonso in charge of Real Madrid Vs Al Hilal that saw his team play out a 1 - 1 draw, people were already calling out the coach and saying lot's of things against, some even questioned why he was made manager. They forgot so soon that he's just new to the team and was his first game. I know it's yet to earlier but I see Alonso in the right path and taking Real Madrid to a greater height. I see another Zidane in Alonso, infact he will be a better manager than Zidane for the club. He needs to be allowed to do his job.

Real Madrid looks more lively than ever and they seem to be creating more chances now since they played a draw with Al Hilal. It's a good development for them and also from their play you will be able to notice some difference,  in it which shows that Alonso is trying to add something to their game and also Vinicius looks to be lively. Is it the critics that made him to improve or the Alonso's doings. Alonso is definitely in the right direction but till the season kicks off we can't conclude if he will succeed here or not.

[Z-tight]

Mancity v Al Hilal, what a game that is going to be in the round of 16, i know City are favorites, but boy Al Hilal are a very good team and i believe they just got better with their new manager Simone Inzaghi, i really cannot wait for this game. I was kind of unsure how this Club World Cup would pan out, but i have to admit that it is so interesting, and it is only going to get better now that we're in the knockout stage.

[Zackz5000]

Wow finally Man City won 5-2, I thought the match would be very competitive but Juventus were very weak as an opposing team, Juventus did not expect such a poor performance from the team players. Possession and Passes Man City were far ahead, Juventus managed to take only 5 shots in the entire game. However, Man City finished the group stage at the number 1 position in the points table after winning 3 consecutive matches. I bet on Man City in this match, thought it would be difficult for Man City to win, but I didn't expect to win so easily.

Seasons are usually not the same Manchester City performance in this competition is insane, Manchester City performance last season wasn't good enough but I believe we will see a different team this coming season.
Football this time are quit unpredictable even Manchester City won't believe they will defect Juventus with such goal margin 5-2, Juventus performance was really poor as Manchester City dominated the game in all rounds both in ball possession and shot on goal, but despite the defeat both teams still qualified to the next stage.

[Fiatless]

Mancity v Al Hilal, what a game that is going to be in the round of 16, i know City are favorites, but boy Al Hilal are a very good team and i believe they just got better with their new manager Simone Inzaghi, i really cannot wait for this game. I was kind of unsure how this Club World Cup would pan out, but i have to admit that it is so interesting, and it is only going to get better now that we're in the knockout stage.

Al Hilal ended in the second position in Group H. In a group where European side FC Red Bull Salzburg could not make it to second round, I will say the Saudi side did well. Manchester United will be happy not to meet Real Madrid because they would have been thrashed. 

Al Hilal is a good side, but City will have an easy game if they put up the same display we saw yesterday. But football can be unpredictable maybe we might see another surprise in the second round of this competition.

[AirtelBuzz]

Wow finally Man City won 5-2, I thought the match would be very competitive but Juventus were very weak as an opposing team, Juventus did not expect such a poor performance from the team players. Possession and Passes Man City were far ahead, Juventus managed to take only 5 shots in the entire game. However, Man City finished the group stage at the number 1 position in the points table after winning 3 consecutive matches. I bet on Man City in this match, thought it would be difficult for Man City to win, but I didn't expect to win so easily.

After the recently concluded EPL season, Manchester City's performance in this Club World Cup tournament seems crazy. Based on the equation of today's match, the teams for the knockout round matches may have already been determined because we can see that since Manchester City won today's match they will face a relatively weaker team Al-Hilal in the next round of the FCWC.
Since Manchester City won the Club World Cup match today, they will face the representatives of Asia in the next match on the other hand their group companions are ready to face the Spanish club. It was truly unique and beautiful that Real Madrid's Gonzalo Garcia was able to play so well in the CWC match that even the Madrid manager compared him to Raul.

[coinlocket$]

big win for Mancehster City.
They are such better team.

Juventus played most of the game with most of their top players out but this is not an excuse.

On the next game they will face Real Madrid now.

[ajanwalker]

City crushed Juventus. They won the match 5-2 and became the only team to win all three matches in the group.

Haaland scored his 300th career goal.
In the other match of the group, Wydad took the lead 1-0 but Al Ain managed to win the match 1-2 and finished the group third with 3 points and said goodbye to the tournament with Wydad.
When the rain poured heavily during the City Juventus match, I thought the match would be abandoned but it was a short shower.
A water break was given in the 30th minute of the match due to the heat. There was heavy rain in the 40th minute of the match. It was a match with an interesting story.
I wonder what City and Juventus will do in the next rounds.

[Mayor of ogba]

You are actually right many gamblers will bet on Manchester City, likewise me I'm not actually moved by odds or head to head, Manchester City has really signed some quality players and will definitely utilize them to their own advantage, that aside Manchester City to me is really the favorite to win tonight match and I strongly believe that, they have the upper hands on this game, for long now Juventus is not really what they use to be, they are almost at Manchester United level in the EPL, but the advantage Juventus have is there are not much pressure like that of the EPL

You are correct that Juventus is not really what they used to be because they have stayed for a long time without winning the Scudetto, but they are not almost at Manchester United level because Juventus used to win their matches in Serie A and book a spot in the UEFA Champions League competition, and they even finished in the 4th position in the Serie A league table.

[Ahli38]

Wow finally Man City won 5-2, I thought the match would be very competitive but Juventus were very weak as an opposing team, Juventus did not expect such a poor performance from the team players. Possession and Passes Man City were far ahead, Juventus managed to take only 5 shots in the entire game. However, Man City finished the group stage at the number 1 position in the points table after winning 3 consecutive matches. I bet on Man City in this match, thought it would be difficult for Man City to win, but I didn't expect to win so easily.

I personally didn't expect that Juventus would have difficulty in this match. But everything was still as I expected where both teams scored goals. And I'm happy because there were a lot of goals scored in that match. Even though Juventus played not as well as expected, they still managed to fight back and scored 2 goals against Manchester City. but Manchester City seems to be back to their best performance again. like they had several seasons ago before last season. It looks like Pep will really be able to bring Manchester City to find the peak of its success again in the coming season. and I think not only in the Club World Cup but also in the Premier League and maybe even in the UCL. With their current performance, I'm sure there will be many who are optimistic about Manchester City next season.

[giorgione]

Juventus played a shameful match yesterday and really wasn't up to the task, the fact that Tudor was chosen as coach makes me think that in reality nobody wanted to go and coach that team, now they have to recover even if the next rounds will be even harder

[HajiBagi]

Wow finally Man City won 5-2, I thought the match would be very competitive but Juventus were very weak as an opposing team, Juventus did not expect such a poor performance from the team players. Possession and Passes Man City were far ahead, Juventus managed to take only 5 shots in the entire game. However, Man City finished the group stage at the number 1 position in the points table after winning 3 consecutive matches. I bet on Man City in this match, thought it would be difficult for Man City to win, but I didn't expect to win so easily.

Manchester City's performance against Juventus shows that Manchester City is back, Manchester City played well and defeated Juventus comfortably without any stress although Juventus's players made some mistakes that led to some own goals, Manchester City's performance was very impressive and I can say that Manchester City is back, Manchester City is one of the team that should be scared of in Premier League next season with the world-class players they have.

Salzburg 0 Vs Real Madrid 3 FT
After the first official game of Xabi Alonso in charge of Real Madrid Vs Al Hilal that saw his team play out a 1 - 1 draw, people were already calling out the coach and saying lot's of things against, some even questioned why he was made manager. They forgot so soon that he's just new to the team and was his first game. I know it's yet to earlier but I see Alonso in the right path and taking Real Madrid to a greater height. I see another Zidane in Alonso, infact he will be a better manager than Zidane for the club. He needs to be allowed to do his job.

As a Real Madrid fan, I am very happy with the performance of Real Madrid against Salzburg, every Real Madrid player played well yesterday and I can confirm that if Real Madrid is fully back to their best form they will be very scary, Vini played like a Balloon Dior contender we use to know before with 1 goal and one assist, Xabi Alonso uses 352 formations yesterday and Real Madrid played well which shows that Alonso is going to succeed in Real Madrid, Real Madrid is going to face Juventus and I believe Real Madrid can pass through Juventus unless Real Madrid decides not to play well in the match.

[Mustang Shelby]

Wow finally Man City won 5-2, I thought the match would be very competitive but Juventus were very weak as an opposing team, Juventus did not expect such a poor performance from the team players. Possession and Passes Man City were far ahead, Juventus managed to take only 5 shots in the entire game. However, Man City finished the group stage at the number 1 position in the points table after winning 3 consecutive matches. I bet on Man City in this match, thought it would be difficult for Man City to win, but I didn't expect to win so easily.

Juventus looked in great shape but Manchester City completely disrupted their balance. We can see that the players are now playing in harmony. Manchester City crushed Juventus and showed once again that they are one of the favorites of the tournament. The Italians started the tournament very well but suffered a heavy defeat. Now they need to overcome this in the next round but their opponents are very difficult. They were paired with Real Madrid and they do not want to get a similar result again.

[Pandu Geddon]

Juventus played a shameful match yesterday and really wasn't up to the task, the fact that Tudor was chosen as coach makes me think that in reality nobody wanted to go and coach that team, now they have to recover even if the next rounds will be even harder

Juventus will face Madrid in the round of 16. It will be tough for them and they may face a more difficult situation than the match against Man City. Juventus must work hard in the next match.
Attention will also be focused on another big match between PSG vs Inter Miami. Inter Miami will be under great pressure to be able to face PSG who are in good form.