Manchester City secured an emphatic 5–2 win over Juventus as Group G in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup concluded on Thursday.
Both City and Juventus had six points each before kick-off, but the Cityzens needed to win to secure their spot. A draw would favour the Italian side.
It took only nine minutes for Jérémy Doku to open the scoring, although a mistake from Ederson quickly allowed Teun Koopmeiners to equalise. But City then received their own gift when Pierre Kalulu prodded the ball into his own net without much pressure nearby.
There had only been two shots on target in the game at that stage—but bizarrely three goals—and it seemed to take a heavy but brief rainstorm to inject some life into the crowd, and into the game. After the literal downpour, the metaphorical floodgates eventually opened after the interval, with Erling Haaland, Phil Foden and Savinho running up the score.
Dušan Vlahović pulled one back for Juve before the end, but it was consolation at most.
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