The doubles by Gabriel Barbosa ‘Gabigol’ and Pedro avoided a greater blush from Flamengo, initially intended to bid for the title of the Club World Cup and doomed to a consolation match that he brought forward due to the talent of his players, superior to the Egyptian enthusiasm that dominated the scoreboard for many minutes.
The Brazilian representative on whom South American football had pinned its hopes to regain dominance in club football failed in the semi-final. At times he seemed to be able to accentuate the bad role of him in Morocco although he managed to straighten the crash with the Al Ahly to take, at least, with the third place.
It was enough for him to push in the final stretch, when he had the result against him, against a rival with ten men for the Khaled Abdulfattah expelled in ’69still with an advantage on the scoreboard.
Without stepping on the accelerator, the flamenco before ten minutes thanks to a penalty for a foul inside the box by Ali Maaloul that he converted gabigol.
But he reacted Al Ahly, more motivated than his rival. In search of a triumph of reputation, he managed to equalize in a corner kick taken by Ali Maaloul who headed Ahmed Abdelkader.
The game was encouraged in the second half, in which there was everything. The Egyptian representative was able to take the lead in minute 56, with a penalty committed on Mohamed Sheriff. Threw it Ali Maaloul but the goal stopped him aderbar santos.
However, it did not sink andl al ahly that four later achieved the second, in a great individual play by Ahmed Abdulkader who dodged several defenses and scored the second for the Egyptian team.
He had to wake up flamenco who found his reward through inertia, against one less rival, and thanks to the penalty spot. In 1967, due to a lack of abdulfatah about Ayrton Lucas at the edge of the area it cost him the expulsion of the African player. And then, Pedro he took advantage of a bad start from the goal The Shenawy to score an empty goal and establish the tie.
only sank Al Ahly. a hand of Hamdi Fathi detected by the VAR put ahead of flamingo. Did not miss the penalty gabigol, again from eleven meters, and now with the set of Marcel Koller sunk and inferior, Pedroonce again, rounded off the only Brazilian triumph.
Al Ahly: Mohamed El Shenawy; Khaled Abdelfattah, Yasser Ibrahim, Mohamed Abdel Monem, Ali Maaloul (Hussein El Shahat, d.90); Hamdi Fathi (Aliou Dieng, d.91), Marwan Attia; Taher Mohamed, Ahmed Abdelkader, Percy Tau; and Mohamed Sherif (Mohamed Hany, m.75).
Flamengo: Aderbar Santos; Guillermo Varela, Fabricio Bruno, David Luiz (Pablo, m.86), Ayrton Lucas, Arturo Vidal, Thiago Maia; Everton Ribeiro (Everton, m.63), Gabriel Barbosa ‘Gabigol’, Giorgian de Arrascaeta (Eric Pulgar, m.99); and Pedro (Matheus Franca, m.99).
Goals: 0-1, m.11: Gabigol, penalty. 1-1, m.38: Ahmed Abdelkader; 2-1, m.60: Ahmed Abdelkader; 2-2, m.77: Peter; 2-3, m.85: Gabigol, penalty. 2-4, m.91: Peter
Referee: Mustapha Ghorbal (Algeria). He showed yellow cards to Giorgian de Arrascaeta and Gabriel Barbosa, from Flamengo and sent off Khaled Abdulfattah with a direct red card and yellow cards to Ahmed Abdelkader, Marwan Attia, Hamdi Fathi, Mohamed Hany and Hussein El shahat, from Al Ahly.
Incidents: Match for third and fourth place in the Club World Cup played at the Tangier Stadium (Morocco).
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