The Brazilian team recovered from the tough fall in the semi-finals and secured bronze in the contest taking place in Morocco after overturning the match against the Egyptians. While Arturo Vidal was the starter and played the entire engagement, Erick Pulgar entered the discounts.
With the consolation prize. This is how we can classify what Flamengo de Brasil has achieved this Saturday after beat Egypt’s Al Ahly 4-2 in the Club World Cup third-place game which takes place in Morocco, match played at the stadium of Tangier.
Those led by the Portuguese Victor Pereira They came out on the pitch under pressure to avoid another role, after what they suffered in their tournament semi-final loss to Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal on Tuesday.
Everything seemed to indicate that the cariocas would easily reverse the bad image left in the previous game, since As the 11th minute elapsed, Gabriel Barbosa opened the account with a penalty . However, as the closing of the first stage approached, Ahmed Abdelkader equalized at 38′ .
In the plugin, Ali Maaloul he was able to put the Egyptians in front, but missed an unbeatable opportunity by twelve steps (58′); However, the Africans were unwilling to make it easy for the cariocas since they Two minutes later (60th), Abdelkader reappeared to bring the score to 2-1 for the Red Devils.
Later, in the 69th minute, Khalid Abdullfatah saw the red card which served the Fla as a psychic injection to try to assimilate the match, what he achieved in 77′ thanks to Pedro .
From then on, the South Americans dominated the game, which led to Mengao will take the lead with the last goals from Gabriel Barbosa from the penalty spot (85′) and Pedro (90+1′) who scored their respective braces, closing the match with a 4-2 win.
With this result, Flamengo – who had Arturo Vidal throughout the duel and Erick Pulgar in discount – was able to wash away his wounds somewhat and found himself with an ungrateful third place in the highest club competition in the world. .
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