Topic: ⚽ 2023 - FIFA Club World Cup - Saudi Arabia ⚽ (Read 248 times)

There is nothing shameful about Fluminense losing the finals against Manchester City. We know football is unpredictable but it was not surprising to see the match end 4-0. European clubs have always dominated the competition. Currently, Fluminense is not in good shape in the Brazilian Seria A and they are currently in the 7th position. Although the Copa Libertadores champions failed to beat the Champions of Europe and become the first South American team to win the FIFA World Club Cup, they should be praised for making it to the finals after winning games against some good sides.

It's a good thing that the Fluminense team was shamefully eliminated from the World Cup, they played well until 40 seconds into the game. lol

At least I can say: In Rio de Janeiro, only Flamengo has a World Cup

Yesterday I made a good profit betting on Fluminense, when I went to place the bet it was 2.0 and not 1.96
Finally a bit of luck hehe 

The first half was very difficult, the Fluminense team was much more nervous, as they were making their debut in the competition while Al-Ahly had already played one match and won.
But in the second half Fluminense improved a lot and managed to score 2 goals
Fluminense are now more confident that they can even win this title

There's the M. City game today, so if you want to watch it, just go to FIFA+ HERE

City's win is paying 1.18, I don't think I'm going to risk it

Fluminense win is paying 1.96, and I think I'll do this bet, I have good feeling that Fluminense will do a good game and is prepared after Fernando Diniz (the coach) watch the first game of Al Ahly
Not an easy game, but I think Fluminense will win, let's see in a few hours hehe

If anyone is interested, the link to watch on FIFA+ is HERE


I believe in a game with only 1 goal, but I'll only bet on win, not on goals

All of this is happening because European football is developing very quickly and almost every team has been able to provide real evidence that they are truly the strongest team, not only in European competitions.
Just look at team like Real Madrid which is always the most successful team in La Liga, UCL and even the FIFA Club World Cup and this is clear proof that European team have no match that can be surpassed by any football.

We will soon see the match between Fluminense vs Al Ahly and the winner can advance to the final, while Manchester City vs Urawa will still take place on Wednesday.
I don't know who between Fluminense vs Al Ahly will advance to the final, but I am very sure that in the final the winner of this match will be Manchester City.

Manchester City has big opportunity to win this competition and of course Haaland and his teammates will try hard to win the FIFA Club World Cup trophy this year.
If Manchester City can win and win trophy in this competition then they will get the title they have not been able to have for long time.

This official FIFA format was created in 2000, and out of 19 championships played, CONMEBOL teams have managed to win 4 times
2 times with Corinthians, 1 with São Paulo and 1 with Interncional, all Brazilian teams
My team, Corinthians, was the last winner outside Europe  

It's very difficult to compete with European teams because all the best salaries are there (or were until very recently with the arrival of Saudi Arabia), and every player's dream is to play in Europe, so all Brazilian teams are depleted year after year by selling their best players to Europe. It gets very difficult hehehe
Sometimes the salary of 2 or 3 players from Real Madrid or M. City, for example, already pays for the whole team in Brazil

I'll give you something nice to compare, with approximate values
Manchester City's estimated monthly salary: €18 million
Fluminense's estimated monthly salary: €1.67 million

Usually, European teams always dominance become the winner of FIFA Club World Cup on every edition since season 2007 and almost 16 season of FIFA Club World Cup dominance by UEFA confederation club. Have an exceptional with season 2005 and 2006 where Copa Libertadores teams Sao Paulo and Internacional become the winner but its happen longer time.
Manchester City will face with Urawa Reds in semifinal stage and likely not much problem for top European teams winning this match and qualified to final waiting the winner teams between Al Ahly or Fluminense.

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As a Flamengo fan that I am, I'm very sad to see that we're back to the times when they didn't win anything, before Jorge Jesus went to Flamengo, they were a weightless team, they were a weak team. But with the arrival of Jorge Jesus, Flamengo became a team that won games and I really enjoyed watching their games, but after Jorge Jesus left, they started to play badly and were no longer the same team. One thing I've noticed all this time is that all the teams that Jorge Jesus is their coach, these teams play well, they play in a way that makes it exciting to watch that team play. we just need to see how well Al Hilal from Saudi Arabia is playing, the team that Jorge Jesus and coach are at the top of the table

Now talking about Fluminense, I don't like them either, but in this tournament they are a team that has a lot of free time since the Brasileirao ended, Manchester City is busy with the premier league in which yesterday they lost points again and it's already Seeing the title is very far away and for this reason Manchester City will not put their good players in this tournament, even the good players who just sit on the bench I really doubt they will play. but there is the Egyptian team that beat the Saudi champion, so it may be possible that the Egyptian team can beat the Fluminense team in tomorrow's game, perhaps we could even be surprised with the Egyptian team winning this tournament.

Benzema has managed to score 2 goals in 2 matches in the 2023 FIFA Club World Cup, but they were unable to advance to the semi-finals because they lost by difference of 2 goals.
But they deserved this defeat because this season experienced significant decline, Al-Ittihad performance this season is very different from last season.

In the semifinal match, many people will make Manchester City and Fluminense the favorites to win the match and advance to the final.
Previously, Real Madrid was one of the most successful team in winning this competition and they represented the UEFA confederation because of their success in the UCL, so far Real Madrid is the defending champion and has won 5 titles.
This season Europe has Manchester City and it is very likely that they can get the 2023 FIFA Club World Cup title and UEFA is the most successful confederation with total of 15 titles.
If Manchester City succeeds in winning the title, the success of the UEFA confederation will increase to total of 16 championship titles.

Little disappointed Karim Benzema appearances in FIFA Club World Cup 2023 have been over after his team Al Ittihad have eliminated by Al Ahly with score 3-1. But excited with his performance from two matches scored two goal and his last goals against Al Ahly not enough yet to help his team qualify to semifinal round and Asian teams left one participants Urawa Reds.

Semifinal round of FIFA Club World Cup 2023 matches will play on Tuesday with Fluminense vs Al Ahly and Urawa Red vs Manchester City, likely the final dreaming between Fluminense vs Manchester City but its only my predictable looking for both teams have good performance and high level than Asian or AFCON teams.

I guess that is what we are most likely looking forward to. I haven't been watching the FIFA Club World Cup in recent years, but I think I remember that these games often end much closer than one would think before the game starts. When you a game like Fluminense vs. City in the finals, wouldn't you expect an overwhelming win for City? But I looked at the final results from the past and it is often quite close.

The last time an underdog won the game was in 12/13 when Corinthians beat Chelsea 1:0.

Karim Benzema a five-time tournament winner of the competition, scored a goal in his club's FIFA Club World Cup game against Auckland City to become the first player in the history of the competition to score in four different editions. His goal in that game also took his total number of goals in the competition to five goals which makes him the third all time top scorer in the competition two behind Cristiano Ronaldo and one goal behind second all time top scorer of the competition Gareth Bale.

That being said, Benzema scored again today but his stoppage time goal wasn't enough to stop African champions Al Ahly from defeating Al Ittihad and send the out of the competition. The performance if Karim Benzema and his teammates today was very poor in my own opinion and that's why they were beaten by the better team in the game. They return back to the Saudi Pro League to continue from where they stopped in the league. Benzema is currently 35 years of age but judging by his current strength and general performance, I think the former French international still have few years to play professional football again.

Leon 0 x 1 Urawa
Al Ahly 3 x 1 Al Ittihad

Today's results are very interesting
I thought Leon would beat Urawa, but the Japanese team qualified
Japanese soccer has improved a lot in recent years

And Benzema's team disappointed, Al Ittihad lost 3x1 and not even his goal helped the team qualify
The Arabs must have been disappointed to see their team out of the World Cup, the Egyptians got a good win

The following matches are now much more interesting:

Fluminense x Al Ahly - 18/12
Manchester City x Urawa Reds - 19/12

What do you think? Fluminense vs City in the finals?

Al Ahly SC vs Al Ittihad temporary score update.
Al Ahly SC is already 1 goal ahead of Al Ittihad and the score is now 1-0. Al Ahly SC's goal came from a penalty kick which was successfully taken by Ali Maaloul after 21 minutes of the match.

Benzema CS is still trying to do their best to equalize the score in the first half with the various attempts they have made so far.
In my opinion, Al Ittihad's opportunity to score a goal was still open because for 35 minutes Al Ittihad's possession of the ball was still dominant even though Al Ahly also carried out attacks that could endanger Al Ittihad's defense.

Yes still the same format,
1st round = the winner of OFC vs the winner of Saudi Pro League

2nd round = 1st round winner vs Concacaf and CAF winner vs AFC winner (Al Ittihad vs Al Ahly and Leon vs Urawa 0-1)

Semifinals= 2nd round winner vs Conmebol and AFC vs UEFA (Al Ittihad/Al Ahly vs Fluminense and Urawa vs ManCity)

A reasonable strategy, but if I’m not mistaken, the odds are very small (less than 1.5) and even if you made a multi-bet on all 4 games, the total odds are 1.5⁴=5.06
Is such a profit worth the risk that the favorite will leave his goal intact in at least one of the games? It seems to me that even despite the low status of the tournament and the “easy” attitude on the part of the one who wins the tournament (European team hahaha, this year City) there is a very high probability that the opponent simply will not be able to score a goal.

By the way, is this the last year that we are watching the world championship among clubs in this format? I know that FIFA seriously planned to reform it and multiply the number of games and participants. Starting next year, the European Champions League will be held in a new format, so it would be quite logical that this competition would also be held in a new way. But in fact, in both competitions, this will lead to the fact that only the games of the final stages (starting from 1/4) will be interesting, and everything else, as always, will be a tedious prelude (with rare exceptions, like this year’s group F in the European Champions League).

Ah this tournament again, I prefer to place a bet starting from the semifinals and only bet on Both Teams To Score.
The odds usually too small for the favorite teams while they might be not play with a full team and idk why there always lot of goals in this tournament.
Here is the results from last year:

Little current update score and match for FIFA Club World Cup - Saudi Arabia, Second round match between AFCON winner teams Al Ahly will face Asian AFC Champion League winner Al Ittihad, the match will start on two hours later. AFCON winner teams Al Ahly automatically begin their participants in Club World Cup on second round difference with Al Ittihad have to play on first round last match against Auckland City and Karim Benzema cs won over 3-0.
Likely the winner between Al Ahly vs Al Ittihad will face Manchester City on semifinal stage and other winner teams between Leon vs Urawa Reds will face Fluminense.

He was totally unhappy kicking the ball with his shin, he even had a good positioning in the penalty area, but as the saying goes, in important moments it's when the great player makes the difference. As a mediocre and bad player, he was forever marked as the culprit for the loss of the title.

Maybe I'll watch the finals.

And he was fully capable of scoring that goal, he received it alone near the goal
But unfortunately it happens, especially with 118 minutes play and losing by one goal. The leg gets heavier, the player gets more nervous and this kind of thing happens
That Flamengo team was fully capable of being champions, and Liverpool at that time were a spectacular, very strong team
And, ironically, it was the Brazilian Firmino who scored the goal 

Are you going to watch any match of the championship this year?


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You can bet on next two matches right now:

December 15
Leon vs Urawa
Al Ahly vs Al Ittihad

Anyone know of any crypto bookmakers featuring these matches? I had a hard time finding a list on odds sites, seems like this cup is not very popular with all bookmakers yet?

Oh my God, that day was a sad day.

I will never forgive the player Lincoln for losing this World Cup. Horrible player who isolated the ball from the game.

The best generation of Flamengo's recent years, it was incredible to see Jorge Jesus' Flamengo.

Lincoln Throwing away his dream of the World Cup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZA2DxSgLF8

The Arab team's goals were scored by the Brazilian Romarinho (not very well known worldwide, but he is known in Brazil), and two old faces from Europe: Kanté and Benzema
It was undeniable to see the superiority of the Arab team, especially given the level of the players there, Auckland didn't stand a chance, unfortunately


Regarding Manchester City and Fluminense, I believe that Manchester City even with a B team, is still very strong
But Fluminense are 100% focused on the World Cup and are training hard so as not to lose rhytm and go all out to win the World Cup
The championship is taken very seriously by the Brazilians, I'd say much more so than the Europeans


Benzema can certainly help the team a lot, especially as he's known for scoring important goals. In a difficult match he can score a goal and solve the problem in a minute


Hahaha, I understand you, my team from heart is Corinthians, but I prefer to see the title with Fluminense instead of other country
In 2019 your team had a great chance against Liverpool but missed that chance

Look, my team (Flamengo/Brazil) won't be in this year's World Cup, I'd like to see Manchester out of affinity, but anyone is ok for me.

I just hope that FLUMINENSE doesn't win this... I hope they don't win a single match. I hate the Fluminense team lol 

Excited watching Karim Benzema will return for playing in FIFA Club World Cup - Saudi Arabia, its good game for Al Ittihad because they are playing in the front of their home as Saudi Arabia host for Club World Cup. Karim Benzema have nice experienced with FIFA Club World Cup because he won 6 trophies when still playing with Real Madrid.
Opening match, Al Ittihad success won 3-0 from Auckland City and Karim Benzema have one goal contribution, with his new team Al Ittihad will Karim Benzema winning FIFA Club World Cup 2023? If Al Ittihad success become the winner will be new record for Karim Benzema won Club World Cup with two difference teams.

yesterday there was the first game, it was Al Ittihad's game against Auckland City, it was a game in which the difference in quality between these teams was very big, if it were a few years ago, I would probably be saying that both teams are equal in terms of squad , but the Arabs in recent years, especially in the last season, made a lot of good signings and thanks to that they managed to have strong teams in their leagues, currently Al Ittihad are not doing well in the Saudi league, but even so in yesterday's game they managed to win in a very comfortable way, from what I saw of the highlights, the opponent didn't cause much danger in that game, Al Ittihad has great players like Karin Benzema who scored a goal in this game.

but although Al Ittihad managed to win in yesterday's game, I doubt that they will be able to win all the games in this competition, I heard that Manchester City will not put their best players in the games of this competition to avoid injuries, I don't know if the Manchester City coach Manchester City will change its mind and will place the best players, but in my opinion Manchester should not place its best players in this competition because they are in a bad situation in the Premier League where their biggest focus is, so we will see what Team B does. Manchester City can do it in this competition

the other teams, such as Fluminense, will go into the competition without much rhythm in the game because the Brazilian championship ended a few days ago, so the players will not have the same motivation and speed they had, I don't know anything about the team from Mexico and Japan , but I know a little about the Egyptian team, they are a good team, but I highly doubt they will win this competition. so the favorites to win this competition in my opinion will be Fluminense and Al Ittihad

Today is the start of another edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, this time in Saudi Arabia

⚽ 2023 - FIFA Club World Cup - Saudi Arabia ⚽
2022 Thread

The championship will have 7 teams in total:

• Al-Ittihad (Saudi Arabia)
• Auckland City (New Zeland)
• León (Mexico)
• Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan)
• Al Ahly (Egypt)
• Manchester City (England)
• Fluminense (Brazil)

If you are interested, FIFA+ will broadcast for free: HERE

Today there's one match:

Al-Ittihad  x Auckland City  - 18h UTC - Link to watch this match HERE

Bookmakers are now open for bets
Al-Ittihad are at 1.07 odds to win and Auckland City at 28.00 
Will you be watching? Will you place bets?

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