File FIFA Membership World Cup winners Actual Madrid meet fellow Europeans, Borussia Dortmund, within the quarterfinals.
Who: Actual Madrid vs Borussia Dortmund
What: FIFA Club World Cup 2025
The place: MetLife Stadium, New Jersey, United States
When: Saturday, July 5 at 4pm native time (20:00 GMT)
The right way to comply with: We’ll have all of the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 6pm native (22:00 GMT) prematurely of our stay textual content commentary stream.
File FIFA Membership World Cup winners Actual Madrid face the aspect they beat to say the 2024 European crown, Borussia Dortmund, for a place in the semifinals.
Actual lifted the Champions League trophy two seasons in the past with a 2-0 win at Wembley Stadium in London, United Kingdom, now Dortmund have the possibility to precise revenge by ending Actual’s hunt for a sixth FIFA title.
Al Jazeera Sport takes a better take a look at the tie.
How did Actual Madrid attain the quarterfinals?
Actual opened their match with a 1-1 draw towards Al Hilal however went on to beat Pachuca 3-1 and Real Salzburg 3-0, in doing so claiming prime spot in Group H.
That arrange a blockbuster round-of-16 tie with fellow European giants Juventus. Gonzalo Garcia’s 54th-minute header was sufficient to seal a 1-0 win for the Spaniards towards the Italians.
How did Borussia Dortmund attain the quarterfinals?
Dortmund additionally opened with a draw – a 0-0 stalemate towards Fluminense – however secured wins towards South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns and South Korea’s Ulsan Hyundai.
Their prime spot in Group F result in a round-of-16 assembly with Mexico’s Monterrey. Serhou Guirassy netted within the 14th and twenty fourth minutes, with German Berterame tightening issues in a 2-1 win for the German membership.
What occurred in Actual Madrid’s final assembly with Borussia Dortmund?
The perimeters have already had one rerun of the 2024 Champions League last after they met within the League Section of final season’s competitors.
Dortmund, nevertheless, missed out on the possibility to get one again on Actual, who ran out 5-2 winners within the match in Spain.
Actual Madrid staff information
Kylian Mbappe continues his return from an sickness which kept him out of the group stage of the match. The French ahead did, nevertheless, make his first look at this yr’s CWC when he got here off the bench within the 68th minute of the win towards Juventus.
Borussia Dortmund staff information
Dortmund midfielder Jobe Bellingham serves a one-match ban following a second reserving of the competitors within the win towards Monterrey. It means there will likely be no head-to-head together with his brother, Jude.
Head-to-head
That is the seventeenth assembly between the edges, with Actual profitable on eight events and Dortmund claiming the spoils in three of the encounters.
The Spaniards haven’t misplaced within the final six conferences, claiming 4 wins in that point. The run included the Champions League last two seasons in the past when Dani Carvajal and Vinicius Junior’s targets secured the trophy for Los Blancos.
What number of Membership World Cups have Actual Madrid received?
Actual Madrid have lifted the trophy, in its varied guises, on a file 5 events, with their 2023 victory against Al Hilal being the final.
That doesn’t embrace lifting the inaugural FIFA Intercontinental Cup in December after their victory against Pachuca, regardless of that competitors taking up the previous format of the Membership World Cup.
Actual Madrid coach Xabi Alonso’s pre-match ideas
“I’m actually delighted with the end result [against Juventus], going by, and with the efficiency as properly. We needed to work, it was going to be robust, however we had been skilled and did very well.”
Borussia Dortmund coach Niko Kovac’s pre-match ideas
“We all know [Xabi Alonso] very properly. He labored two and a half years in Germany, and he did a improbable job. Now he’s implementing every little thing he had at Bayer Leverkusen at Actual Madrid. So we’re anticipating the identical what we had in Leverkusen, solely with completely different gamers. We’re wanting ahead to it, however it’s a must to play soccer for 90 minutes, and if we put every little thing on to the pitch, I believe that we are going to have a great probability.”
Attainable Actual Madrid beginning lineup
Courtois, Alexander-Arnold, Rudiger, Tchouameni, Huijsen, Garcia, Valverde, Bellingham, Guler, Mbappe, Junior
Attainable Borussia Dortmund beginning lineup
Kobel, Ryerson, Sule, Anton, Bensebaini, Svensson, Nmecha, Gross, Sabitzer, Guirassy, Adeyemi
