Gonzalo heads Real Madrid past Juventus and into Club World Cup quarters

Gonzalo Garcia’s 54th-minute header was passable to present True Madrid a 1-0 rob over Juventus at Exhausting Rock Stadium on Tuesday and e book their put in the quarter-finals of the Club World Cup.

The Spanish giants will face the winner of Tuesday’s varied sport between Borussia Dortmund and Mexico’s Monterrey in the final eight.

It was an spectacular show hide from Xabi Alonso’s Madrid side and including to a particular day, Kylian Mbappe made his return from illness, approaching as a 68th-minute substitute for his first appearance of the match.

The first half of was a finely-balanced contest with Igor Tudor’s Juventus beginning brightly before True ended it on top.

There was an early likelihood for Juve’s Randal Kolo Muani after suave work from Kenan Yildiz to position him by on just, however the French forward opted for an tried chip of Thibaut Courtois and his shot floated over the bar.

The spectacular Yildiz then burst by the center and unleashed a fierce effort which deflected off Aurelien Tchouameni and flew large.

The Turin team, overwhelmed 5-2 by Manchester City in their closing team sport, were inviting the ball round with self belief but True grew into the competition and they went discontinuance when Jude Bellingham forced a bunch up out of Michele Di Gregorio from discontinuance fluctuate.

Federico Valverde then examined the Juve goalkeeper from lengthy fluctuate and Trent Alexander-Arnold whipped a low ball all the contrivance in which by the face of the just as Madrid carried out the half of strongly.

The interval did nothing to alter the momentum of the game with True creating a couple of probabilities — Bellingham laid off to Valverde, whose sweetly-struck shot was neutral large after which Bellingham himself brought one more appropriate set up out of Di Gregorio with a shot from the perimeter of the box.

Dean Huijsen’s rocketing force was parried out by the busy goalkeeper as True laid seige to the Juventus just and it was no shock when the breakthrough eventually arrived.

Alexander-Arnold floated in a cross from the finest which Gonzalo met with a beautifully-timed header for his third just in four games in the match.

Juve answered with Portuguese winger Francisco Conceicao bringing Courtois into action from a low shot the Belgian shot-stopper did effectively to salvage all of the contrivance in which down to.

However True desired to fabricate the competition off and Valverde examined Di Gregorio’s reactions with an overhead kick before Alonso decided to introduce Mbappe to the satisfaction of the 62,149 crowd.

Juve’s belief remained alternatively and Nicolas Gonzalez flashed a 25-yard force neutral large.

At the varied cease, True’s Turkish midfielder Arda Guler seen his crisp shot kept out by the toes of Di Gregorio, however the one just was passable.