Al Hilal, in Saudi Arabia, stunned Monday Manchester City 4-3 in overtime in Orlando to make one of the shocks of the Club World Cup and set up a quarter-final against Fluminense du Brazil.
Marcos Leonardo marked his second at night at the 112nd minute while Simone Inzaghi’s team saw the Premier League club, which had taken a ninth advance via Bernardo Silva.
Quick goals from Leonardo and Malcom in six minutes immediately after the restart put Al Hilal in front before Erling Haaland equalized for City in the 55th minute.
Four more minutes, Kalidou Koulibaly headed in the corner of Ruben Neves to put the club based in Riyad out in front and while Phil Foden again leveled for the city of Leonardo with seven minutes to do to take Al Hilal.
“We knew that it was a difficult match against one of the best world teams,” said Koulibaly. “We wanted to show our ideas, our talent, our power and I think we had a very good game.
“Defensively, we were very strong and offensively all the opportunities that we could put inside that we put, so that we can be happy.”
The Portuguese playmaker Silva had put City in advance when he pushed the ball on the line after Renan Lodi’s attempted clearance found himself at his feet inside the six yards box.
The reruns showed that the ball had brushed the wrist of Rayan Ait-Nouri of the city earlier in the movement, but the referee distant the demonstrations of Al Hilal.
Al Hilal goalkeeper Yassine Bounou then made a series of backups to refuse the city a second before the interval and in a few seconds after the restart, the Saudi club leveled.
Malcom rolled up on the right and found Joao Cancelo, whose ball in the six yard box was initially blocked by a sprawling Ederson, but Leonardo led the loop rebound in the unspecking net.
Six minutes later, Malcom was released behind the defense by the Cancelo pass to deeply inside his own half and the Brazilian showed his composure to caress his shot in front of Ederson.
The advance was to last only three minutes, however, when Haaland jumped in the corner of Silva and the Norwegian was denied a late winner by a desperate authorization on Ali Lajami’s line.
The Saudis made four minutes after the overtime when Koulibaly got up to take a look at a corner of a corner, but the city again leveled Rayan Cherki and Foden combining for the international in England to direct a sublime volle for the first time through Bounou and in the lower corner.
Al Hilal would not be refused and Leonardo claimed his second of the night after seeing Ederson save Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, the tired Brazilian triple by bringing the winner.
