Document 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)
Find out how to observe: We’ll have all of the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 6pm native (22:00 GMT) prematurely of our reside textual content commentary stream.
Document 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 more in-depth take a look at the tie.
How did Actual Madrid attain the quarterfinals?
Actual opened their event 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 high 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 high 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 edges have already had one rerun of the 2024 Champions League ultimate after they met within the League Part 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 crew information
Kylian Mbappe continues his return from an sickness which kept him out of the group stage of the event. 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 crew 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 can be no head-to-head along 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 ultimate 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 numerous guises, on a report 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 over 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 via, and with the efficiency as effectively. We needed to work, it was going to be powerful, however we had been skilled and did very well.”
Borussia Dortmund coach Niko Kovac’s pre-match ideas
“We all know [Xabi Alonso] very effectively. He labored two and a half years in Germany, and he did a implausible job. Now he’s implementing all the things he had at Bayer Leverkusen at Actual Madrid. So we’re anticipating the identical what we had in Leverkusen, solely with totally different gamers. We’re wanting ahead to it, however it’s important to play soccer for 90 minutes, and if we put all the things on to the pitch, I believe that we are going to have a superb likelihood.”
Doable Actual Madrid beginning lineup
Courtois, Alexander-Arnold, Rudiger, Tchouameni, Huijsen, Garcia, Valverde, Bellingham, Guler, Mbappe, Junior
Doable Borussia Dortmund beginning lineup
Kobel, Ryerson, Sule, Anton, Bensebaini, Svensson, Nmecha, Gross, Sabitzer, Guirassy, Adeyemi