Al Ahly vs. Real Madrid – Football Match Report – February 8, 2023

Real Madrid reached the Club World Cup remaining after targets from Vinicius Junior, Federico Valverde, Rodrygo and Sergio Arribas secured a 4-1 win over Egypt’s Al Ahly in Morocco on Wednesday.

Playing with out a number of key starters like ahead Karim Benzema and goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, Real Madrid skilled a house subject setting, with the native followers turning up the noise on the offered-out Prince Moulay Abdallah stadium in Rabat.

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The white Real Madrid jerseys outnumbered Al Ahly’s crimson by an enormous margin and the Morocco followers even displayed an enormous banner in help of the Spanish giants, making a vibrant environment and a din that’s uncommon for a Club World Cup in what was imagined to be a impartial stadium.

They struggled to interrupt the impasse, nonetheless, towards Al Ahly’s properly organised defence, with the Egyptians threatening on the counter-assault.

Vinicius shot huge within the twenty eighth minute and Rodrygo hit the put up however Real opened the scoring proper on halftime.

Aliou Dieng gave a poor move to Mahmoud Metwaly who, pressured by Vinicius, misplaced the ball to the Brazilian and he dinked a wonderful strike over the goalkeeper, his fiftieth objective in 202 matches for Real Madrid.

Valverde prolonged Real’s lead simply after the break, tapping into an empty web after the goalkeeper had palmed away Rodrygo’s level-clean strike.

“We thought at 2-0, game over, but that’s not football. We had to do much better, our rhythm dropped, we lost control, we thought the game was won and it isn’t like that, we have to play well and focus until the end,” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti mentioned.

Vinicius twice wasted alternatives to increase the lead and Al Ahly acquired a lifeline when Eduardo Camavinga tripped Hussein El Shahat inside the world within the sixty fifth minute and defender Ali Maaloul tucked away the penalty.

Afsha missed a sitter from shut-vary that might have been the equaliser for Al Ahly and thoughReal’s Luka Modric missed a penalty three minutes from the top of the sport.

“I need to choose better!,” Ancelotti mentioned after his workforce missed one other penalty this season. “Sometimes you miss penalties, Luka has always taken them well. But we have to choose the best, it’s quite clear, Karim [Benzema], [Luka] Modric, [Marco] Asensio. It’s hard to train penalties, you can’t reproduce the atmosphere in training.”

Rodrygo and substitute Arribas accomplished a snug win in stoppage time with shut-vary strikes.

Real will face Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal within the remaining in Rabat on Saturday after they shocked South American champions Flamengo 3-2 within the first semi-remaining.

“We arrived here with great enthusiasm to play the final,” Ancelotti mentioned.

“We have the excitement to play the final and the concern to play it well. We have to rest, although we don’t have much time. We have to rest well to try to win.”