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Man City stunned by Al-Hilal in seven-goal Club World Cup thriller

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Anon: Al-Hilal had Bono and The Edge tonight.

I guess Manchester City players can go on their summer holidays now.

Simon Turner: Every EPL team will note how City can be done on the counter. Quick passes, north-south and east-west, combined with offensive pace had the City centre-backs twisted up like pretzels.

Osas, Nigeria: Congratulations to Inzaghi Simone – He’s beaten Hansi Flick and Pep now in crucial games. But he needs work on landing the big prizes.

Al-Hilal boss Simone Inzaghi has done an impressive job in such a short amount of time – having left Inter Milan less than a month ago after the Champions League final.

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Former Tottenham midfielder on Dazn

What a game we have seen. Al-Hilal have shocked the world. City are shell-shocked.

5c6ad66b-7c1c-43ba-863d-92a86549eafc.jpg.webpShamoon Hafez
BBC Sport football news reporter at Camping World Stadium, Orlando

Incredible scenes here at full-time as Al-Hilal players and staff poured onto the pitch to celebrate.

This is a stunning result that will reverberate around the world. Absolutely astonishing. No-one had given the Saudi side a chance.

Manchester City attempted 30 shots, 14 on target – but only scored three of them.

Al-Hilal had 17, six on target – and four goals.

I don’t think many people saw this coming, did they? I didn’t.

Al-Hilal are there!

Manchester City, the defending champions, are out of the Fifa Club World Cup.

Bono catches a cross and I think Al-Hilal are there.

Al-Hilal clear.

Ederson comes up.

Jeremy Doku hammers in a shot from outside the box. Deflected over for a corner. This is the final chance.

Nearly everyone up for City and Al-Hilal counter. But City have it again.

Renan Lodi has a chance to seal it but his shot lacks conviction and Ederson saves.

Manchester City players look despondent. They really do want to win this.

Three minutes added on.

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Shamoon Hafez

BBC Sport football news reporter at Camping World Stadium, Orlando

Defending champions Manchester City were knocked out of the Club World Cup at the last-16 stage after being stunned in extra time by Saudi Arabia side Al-Hilal in an incredible seven-goal thriller.

Pep Guardiola’s side had come through the group stages unscathed but failed to reach the quarter-finals after conceding four times in a haphazard defensive display.

City have been fast starters in this competition and for the fourth game running, they opened the scoring inside the first 10 minutes.

Captain Bernardo Silva swept home from close range after the opposition defenders failed to clear, but the Al-Hilal players were left fuming as Rayan Ait-Nouri appeared to handle the ball in the build-up.

Goalkeeper Bono made big saves to deny Savinho and Ilkay Gundogan from close range, before showing sharp reflexes to tip Josko Gvardiol’s header over the crossbar.

At the other end, Al-Hilal found little joy in the opening 45 minutes, but just 44 seconds into the second half, Brazilian striker Marcos Leonardo was in the right place to head in the equaliser.

City were reeling when former Barcelona man Malcom ran clear to coolly convert and give Al-Hilal a shock lead on 52 minutes, before Erling Haaland restored parity just three minutes later by poking in from a corner.

With time running out in a thoroughly entertaining contest, Manuel Akanji flicked a header against the post and Haaland saw his follow-up effort sensationally cleared off the line by Ali Lajami.

The match went into extra-time and Al-Hilal thought they had won it when former Chelsea defender Kalidou Koulibaly powered in a header in the 94th minute, but substitute Phil Foden squeezed home a volley from an acute angle to keep City alive.

But Marcos Leonardo was the hero as he converted at the back post eight minutes from time to deliver a monumental result for the 2021 AFC Champions League winners.

What was the main talking point?

The revamped Club World Cup has been criticised in some parts, but this contest served up an epic encounter – one for the night owls in the UK, as it finished at 04:45 BST – which will go down as one of the most memorable games of the tournament.

It was a result to reverberate around football, as an ambitious Arab side aiming to challenge the elite dumped out a Premier League giant on the global stage.

City went ahead and failed to take their chances in the first half and then trailed for the first time in the competition after an extraordinary six-minute spell at the start of the second half. They went to extra time, but could not recover from Marcos Leonardo’s 112th-minute goal.

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Which players stood out?

The heroics of former Girona and Sevilla goalkeeper Bono helped Morocco reach the World Cup semi-finals in 2022 and he was even more valiant against City.

The 34-year-old made a string of saves – totalling 10 – to ensure Al-Hilal clung on in the contest, while former City full-back Joao Cancelo was involved in both of their opening goals.

But it will be a game that 22-year-old front man Marcos Leonardo will always remember after scoring twice, while it is one that the City players will want to forget.

What next?

City head home after a disappointing result, while Al-Hilal will stay in Orlando for Friday’s quarter-final, coming up against Brazilian side Fluminense.

The winner of that tie will play the victor of Chelsea v Palmeiras in the semi-finals in New York/New Jersey.

Where next?

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Player of the match

Marcos Leonardo

star.63d2406f0f.svg8.88

47 P. Foden

4.53

29 R. Cherki

4.40

11 J. Doku

4.28

20 Bernardo Silva

4.24

4 T. Reijnders

4.17

21 R. Aït-Nouri

4.15

16 Rodri

3.96

6 N. Aké

3.93

9 E. Haaland

3.90

3 Rúben Dias

3.87

19 İ. Gündoğan

3.84

7 Omar Marmoush

3.81

25 M. Akanji

3.78

24 J. Gvardiol

3.76

26 Savinho

3.74

31 Ederson

3.61

27 Matheus Nunes

3.56

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11 Marcos Leonardo

8.88

3 K. Koulibaly

8.77

77 Malcom

8.77

18 Musab Al Juwayr

8.55

20 João Cancelo

8.50

37 Y. Bounou

8.48

8 Rúben Neves

8.48

28 Mohamed Kanno

8.42

22 S. Milinković-Savić

8.35

16 Nasser Al Dawsari

8.33

78 Ali Lajami

8.33

7 Khalid Al Ghannam

8.29

24 Moteb Al Harbi

8.25

5 Ali Al Bulayhi

8.21

27 Kaio César

8.15

6 Renan Lodi

8.13

88 Hamad Al Yami

8.12

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