A free-flowing City side scored five times in an impressive 5-2 victory over Juventus to top Group G in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup.
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Pep Guardiola’s men began the Group G decider trailing the Old Lady in the group on goals scored, but took the lead after just nine minutes, with Jeremy Doku cutting inside from Rayan Ait-Nouri’s defence-splitting pass to curl into the bottom right corner for his second goal of the tournament.
Juventus hit back just two minutes later, as Teun Koopmeiners intercepted Ederson’s pass before coolly slotting beyond our Brazilian goalkeeper.
Shortly before the half-hour mark, Matheus Nunes charged through on the right flank and played a dangerous cross into the box, which Juventus defender Pierre Kalulu turned into his own net to put us back ahead.
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The Italian side’s goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio was kept busy for the remainder of the half, getting down to his left smartly in quick succession to deny accurate long-range efforts from Ait-Nouri and Omar Marmoush.
Erling Haaland was introduced for the second period and just seven minutes later, Nunes again got beyond the Juventus defence and squared the ball across for the Norwegian to bundle us 3-1 ahead.
Another substitute was next to get on the scoresheet, as a neat move ended with Savinho laying off Phil Foden to drill into an empty net, claiming his 99th goal for City.
Savinho then turned from provider to scorer, blasting a venomous strike from 25 yards with his right foot into the net via the crossbar, before Dusan Vlahovic grabbed one goal back for Juventus.
Rayan Cherki was denied a sixth Di Gregorio in the final moments as City became the only team in this season’s Club World Cup to win all three group stage matches heading into the last-16 of the competition.
View the best images from the pulsating victory via our gallery below.