The Brazilian club will play Manchester City or Urawa Red Diamonds in the final on Friday, trying to give South America just a second Club World Cup title in 17 years.
The sly craftiness of protector Marcelo won the penalty that helped shoot Fluminense’s stager platoon to the Club World Cup final after beating Al Ahly 2- 0 on Monday.
Marcelo’s fine footwork at the edge of the Al Ahly penalty area teased forward Percy Tau into the attack that put Jhon Arias on the spot to convert a 71st- nanosecond penalty.
Fluminense sealed palm in the 90th, when cover John Kennedy scored with a entwining left- bottom shot.
The Brazilian club will play Manchester City or Urawa Red Diamonds in the final on Friday, trying to give South America just a alternate Club World Cup title in 17 times.
Al Ahly, whose noisy red- clad suckers made up utmost of a near- 35,000 crowd, will play a third- place game on Friday against the clunker of the other semifinal. It’s played on Tuesday at the same King Abdullah Sports City colosseum.
While Marcelo helped produce for Fluminense at one end, the 40- time-old protector Felipe Melo and 43- time-old goalkeeper Fabio defended at the other.
Felipe Melo produced a name moment of the first half, contending back toward thing to attack Tau, who had been clear in space and was poised to shoot. Felipe Melo rose to his bases and cried in satisfaction.
Fabio’s calm and precise positional sense let him save constantly from Al Ahly’s 18 thing attempts.
“Players like Marcelo, I suppose, were decisive, especially for the penalty, ” Fluminense trainer Fernando Diniz said in restated commentary. “ Felipe Melo also played brilliantly, he was absolutely in control. ”
Fluminense and Al Ahly presented a fogy look at a competition dominated for two decades by the flush European clubs who have hired swells of global gift.
A platoon of 11 South Americans including nine Brazilians started against 11 Africans including nine from Egypt for the Cairo club.
Stager Brazil internationals Marcelo — a five- time titleholders League winner with Real Madrid — and Felipe Melo are being awarded again for coming home from long careers in Europe to enjoy late- career blooms with the Copa Libertadores winner.
Though Fluminense was outshot 11 to three in the half, both sweats by its Colombian winger Arias struck the left- hand post of goalkeeper Mohamed El Shenawy.
Arias eventually scored his penalty after running at a curious angle parallel to the thing before he stopped, broke also placed a right- bottom shot beyond El Shenawy diving to his right.
After the game, Diniz constantly cited the short- cut lawn and gyroplane, wet face as being so different from the fields they find in Brazil that it caused his platoon to make too numerous miscalculations in the first half.
A rare European element in the game was Al Ahly’s Swiss trainer, Marcel Koller, dressed each in black standing pitchside in stark discrepancy to the pictorial scarlet-red outfit of Diniz, the trainer who’s doing double duty this season with the Brazil platoon. Know More Latest Football News…
