Triumph at the club World Cup
Surprise team marches into the semi -finals
Updated on 04.07.2025 – 11:18 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
On Saturday, FC Bayern and Borussia Dortmund will be able to move into the semi-finals of the club World Cup. Fluminense took this step on Friday.
The first semi-finalist of the club World Cup is certain: Fluminense from Rio de Janeiro prevailed in the duel against Al-Hilal from Saudi Arabia on Friday. The Brazilian club won the game in Orlando 2-1. Martinelli (40th minute) and Hercules (70th) scored the hits for fluminense. For Al-Hilal, Marcos met Leonardo for the meantime 1: 1 (51st).
The Brazilians meet the winner of the Palmeira game against Chelsea, which takes place at 3 a.m. in the night of Friday to Saturday. Fluminensee is one of the positive surprises of the tournament, remained unbeaten in the BVB group and threw from the tournament in the round of 16 Champions League finalists.
Before the game, both teams honored the Liverpool striker Jota and his younger brother André Silva. Both had died in a car accident in Spain at the lecture. During the minute of commemoration, former Bayern player João Cancelo and his team-mate Ruben Neves broke out in tears. Both Al-Hilal professionals played with Diogo Jota in the Portuguese national team for years.
The Italian trainer Simone Inzaghi had released them to do without an assignment in this quarter-final game. However, Cancelo and Neves ran up. Her team rarely made the achievements against Real Madrid (1: 1) and Manchester City (4: 3 after extra time). It was only in the final phase that al-hilal urged the equalization with a lot of energy.