To the Hilal of Saudi Arabia surprised Manchester City 4-3 in extra time in Orlando on Monday to achieve one of the club’s blows of the club and establish a quarter of the final against Fluminense in Brazil.
Marcos Leonardo scored his second of the night in the 112nd minute when Simone Inzaghi’s team saw the Premier League club, which had taken a ninth minute advantage through Bernardo Silva.
Leonardo and Malcom’s fast fire goals in six minutes immediately after the restart put Al Hilal in front before Erling Haaland matched City in the 55th minute.
Four minutes in extra time, Kalidou Koulibaly went to the corner of Ruben Neves to put the club based in Riad back to the front and, while Phil Foden returned to level the city of Leonardo, he was reduced with seven minutes to take to the Hilal.
“We knew it was a difficult game against one of the best teams in the world,” Koulibaly said. “We wanted to show our ideas, our talent, our power and I think we did a very good game.
“Defensively, we were very strong and offensively all the opportunities we could put inside that we put, so that we could be happy.”
Portuguese games creator Silva had put City ahead when he pushed the ball on the line after Renan Lodi’s free space attempt ended at his feet inside the six -yard box.
The repetitions showed that the ball had brushed Rayan Ait-Nouri’s doll of the city before in the movement, but the referee exhausted Al Hilal’s protests.
The goalkeeper of Al Hilal, Yassine Bououu, made a series of salvages to deny City a second before the interval and, in seconds, the restart of the Saudi club was leveled.
Malcom led the right and found Joao Cancelo, whose ball in the six -yard box was initially blocked by an expanding ederson, but Leonardo headed the rebound on the network without guard.
Six minutes later, Malcom was released behind the defense for the depth cancel pass within his own half and the Brazilian showed composure to caress his shot beyond Ederson.
However, the advantage would last only three minutes, when Haaland pounced in the corner of Silva and Norwegian received a late winner for a desperate authorization in the line of Ali Lajami.
The Saudi continued four minutes in extra time when Koulibaly got up to look at home a header from a corner, but the city was leveled once again, replaces Rayan Cheki and Foden who combines so that the England’s international direct a sublime volley for the first time through Bououu and towards the lower corner.
The Hilal would not be denied and Leonardo claimed his second of the night after seeing Ederson save the header from Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, the tired Brazilian stumble while led the winner home.
