by A lonely goal in the first half of Daniel Svensson gave Borussia Dortmund a 1-0 victory against Ulsan HD on Wednesday when the Germans secured a place in the last 16 of the club world championship.
Dortmund’s second win in a row with a one-goal edge after her 4: 3 defeat against Mamelodi Sundowns on Saturday was observed by just over 8,000 spectators in Cincinnati, including US Vice President JD Vance and FIFA boss Gianni Infantino.
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It means that Dortmund has qualified for the last 16 as the winner of Group F, while Fluminense runs behind them in second place after they had held sunless pats in Miami at the same time in Miami.
“We can be satisfied. I think our performance was better than in the first two games,” said Dortmund coach Niko Kovac.
He regularly spoke at the tournament about the difficulties of the scorching Juni Heat in the USA, and this was another game that was played in the afternoon in the afternoon.
“We always say the same thing. What the boys do is incredible. Thirty -six degrees Celsius (96.8 degrees Fahrenheit) and 43 degrees in the stadium. That is incredible,” said Kovac.
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“Even if you can just avoid, you can be very exhausting, but I think you do a great job. Now we have one day off and I hope the players recover for the next game.”
Kovac only made two changes to his starting line -up when Karim Adeyemi and Julian Rerson came in, while Jobe Bellingham kept his place in the team.
The Bundesliga giants should have won a bigger lead on another hot day in Cincinnati, but Serhou Guirassy was refused by a good Jo Hyeon-Woo rescue in 27 minutes.
Bellingham then bubbled from an adeyemi cross -cross -volley over a volley a moment, but the decisive goal came in 36 minutes -soft defent from Ulsan saw how the Koreans lost the property on the edge of their own box, before Bellingham Svenson and the Swede had fired on his left foot.
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Guirassy, who had a productive season, should have scored a goal in the intermediate half in the intermediate half with a header with a header, which was directly with the goalkeeper.
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Dortmund’s Gregor Kobel was then called in action to refuse Lee Jin-Hyun, while Yan Couto landed it shortly before 2-0.
Kovac’s team will play his last game in Atlanta next Tuesday in Atlanta and later find out the identity of her opponents on Wednesday when Group E ends.
“Now we have to leave everything on the field. The missions are high. It’s about prestige and money. I think we will see a quality increase,” said Kovac.
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Ulsan goes home with three defeats from three games, while Fluminense is over, which means that all four Brazilian teams have passed into the KO phase in competition.
The conditions were also hard in Miami, where Captain Jhon Arias brought a shot over the goal and wide for fluminense at the end of the first half.
After the break, the German Cano came close to the Rio de Janeiro side, while sunset enjoyed more possession in the 90 minutes, but did not achieve the victory they needed to get a lot from 14,312.
Your exit means that none of the four African clubs that have come to the tournament will be shown in the last 16, but Sundowns’ achievements mean that you can go home with high -headed minds.
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“We are not happy. We had a clear goal in this game, but I am very proud of the level at which the players played,” said Miguel Cardoso, coach of the South African Champions.
“We go and go home with our heads because we are much stronger than we came here.”
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