Man City 2, Phil Foden 2’, Jeremy Doku 42’
Wydad 0
What a win in the Club World Cup opener for Manchester City and the team! A great 2-0 win that showed some new faces, interesting debuts and a rejuvenated Phil Foden.
A great overall win, that gets the juices going as the club look to win the whole thing. Foden, Vitor Reis and Doku played especially well as we also saw the solid debuts of Reijnders, Cherki and more. The former of which really played well.
Fun match and win as we move on to the reaction:
Manchester City FC v Wydad AC: Group G - FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Photo by Emilee Chinn - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images
Pep Guardiola Reaction
“We had good moments, many new players and the first game in this Group Stage is always important,” Guardiola said.
“We started really well then after had some problems, especially when losing simple balls. When you lose simple balls, the transition is a little bit there.
“But I saw many good things.
“This is the first game, we’ll prepare the next one with the new players.
“The first three points is important.
“We have the second one to try to arrive in the last game to have qualified then the last game to define if we’re first.
“The first step is done, this is important. We’ll recover, train good in the next few days and then have fresh legs for the next game.
“We’ll try to step by step improve things. It’s normal in this stage with new players and a lot of people coming from big injuries, step by step we’re going to take the right tempo.”
Notable Tweets
City have won all 3 of their matches at the FIFA Club World Cup without conceding a goal.
— StatCity (@StatCity) June 18, 2025