In the midst of an avalanche of criticism, Rayados de Monterrey concluded their participation in the most important club tournament in the world with a 3-1 victory against Al-Jazira , host of the tournament in Abu Dhabi.
After losing by the slightest difference in his debut in the tournament against the Egyptian Al-Alhy and seeing his goal of advancing to the semifinal frustrated, the team earned all kinds of insults and criticism from their fans; however, today he took the caste and won his last match, staying with the fifth place in the tournament that brings together the champions of each region of the world.
🇲🇽🏆 MONTERREY FINISHED FIFTH IN THE CLUB WORLD CUP!
🔎 Rayados se imposed against Al Jazira and at least was able to say goodbye to the tournament with a victory
🇦🇷 Funes Mori (scored the second goal), Meza, Andrada and Kranevitter started for the Mexicans
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—Diario Olé (@DiarioOle) February 9, 2022
It was enough for Rayados 25 minutes to finish the match, since their path to victory opened from the 4th minute with an own goal by Zayed Sultan, which allowed those from northern Mexico to manage the match from the first moments and increase his advantage to the minute 11, through his scorer Rogelio Funes Mori, who received a cross from Maxi Meza with his chest and finished off at goal without the goalkeeper being able to prevent the goal. Finally, at 25′ César Montes headed in and sent the ball into the back of the net to make it 3-0.
The rest of the match, Monterrey withdrew and played on the counterattack. He had a couple of dangerous goal plays, but he didn’t get the fourth.
Al-Jazeera’s discount came in injury time, when Bruno finished off a precise cross and sealed the final score of 3-1.
With this result, Monterrey avoided another ridicule and took some pressure off, but not enough to save himself from failure in the tournament.
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