Atlético Madrid has eliminated club World Cup while Palmeiras snatches first place in group A | Club World Cup 2025

It took almost the second half, but the incessant attacks on goal brought their fruit to Antoine Griezmann in the 87th minute on Monday.

After the shooting of his teammate Ángel Correa was blocked by a defender, Griezmann sent a left foot in the net to lift Atlético Madrid to a 1-0 victory against Botafogo in group B of the Club World Cup in Pasadena, California.

Unfortunately, it is not enough to send the Spanish to the tours with direct elimination while Atlético Madrid needed a victory of at least three goals to move forward. Paris Saint -Germain, who beat the Sounders of Seattle 2-0 Monday, and Botafogo – who beat PSG earlier this week – won the first two places in the group.

In the 10th minute, Botafogo had a main opportunity to strike first after a ball at Jefferson Savarino gave the striker a goal race. The Atlético Madrid goalkeeper Jan Oblak, however, spread to keep the match without goal.

Julián Alvarez almost gave Atlético Madrid, his head just before half-time. The striker collected a pass right outside the area, turned and whispered a right foot, but his attempt was largely drawn.

At the beginning of the second half, Atlético again expressed the pressure on Botafogo with Griezmann trying to sneak in a left lap by the nearby post, but he hugs the post and off game.

In the 67th minute, Botafogo went to the offensive while Cuiabano launched a crossroads in the box that Igor Jesus struck at the first time. Again, Oblak was there to hit the attempt to maintain a white sheet.

Atlético was likely to rely on their advance after Griezmann’s late goal, but Botafogo continued to deny the Spanish.

PSG 2-0 Sounders of Seattle

In the other game of group B, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia scored in the first half, Achraf Hakimi struck the second and PSG ensured his place in the last 16 with a 2-0 victory over the Sounders of Seattle.

Gianluigi Donnarumma kept his second white sheet of the tournament in front of the supporters of the Maison des Sounders without having to make a safeguard while PSG closed their campaign of group B and rebounded after a 1-0 defeat against Botafogo on Thursday.

PSG will face Inter Miami in a second round match on Sunday in Atlanta, Georgia, after Palmeiras seized the first place in group A hosts in Florida.

Seattle (0-3-0, 0 points) became the second MLS team to be eliminated after the release of Lafc after its 1-0 defeat against ES Tunis in Thursday group.

Hakimi’s goal came to a fast counter a few moments after one of the best chances of the Sounders. Finally, Bradley Barcola was slipped into the repair area of ​​the left, then chose Hakimi on the other side of the box.

Hakimi had time to take a touch of composition before shooting in a categorical finish at around 10 meters.

As expected, PSG had the majority of the first chances. The effort of Désiré Doué forced Stefan Frei to a sprawling safeguard in the 12th minute.

But the Sounders managed to press high and almost took a shock lead in the 19th minute after turning PSG at the edge of their own box – only for Jesús Ferreira to draw its highly high of the target.

Parisians were lucky with their 35th minute breakthrough. Vittinha’s initial strike from the edge of the penalty surface by traffic seemed to be heading for the right post. Instead, he struck the back of Kvaratskhelia, redirecting it carefully inside the amount before Frei could react.

PSG twice almost doubled its advance at the start of the second. After a promising attack on the left, the gifted attempt of the 56th minute of Goutout about 10 meters was blocked by the critical sprawling intervention of Nouhou. Four minutes later, João Neves voted for Hakimi’s exit service on the right next to the left post.

Inter Miami 2-2 Palmeiras

Palmeiras retaliated by two goals to get a 2-2 draw with Inter Miami at the Hard Rock Stadium on Monday, a result which obtained a place for the two teams in the last 16.

The goals of Tadeo Allende and Luis Suarez had Miami on the right track for a second surprise victory in the tournament after their victory over Porto.

But the Brazilian team has struck twice in the last 10 minutes through Paulinho and Mauricio to claim a draw which assures them first place in group A.

Inter Miami will face the European Champions of PSG in the last 16, while Palmeiras finished above the local side on the difference in goals and will have a fully Brazilian meeting with Botofogo.

For Lionel Messi, who celebrates his 38th birthday on Tuesday, the next round will see him face his former PSG club for the first time since he let them join Miami in 2023.

Palmeiras rallied at the end of the match while Paulinho scored in the 80th minute and Mauricio leveled in the 87th to cancel a brilliant individual performance by Luis Suarez.

The Uruguayan scored a goal that echoes at the top of his long career to double Miami’s advance in the 65th minute after his intelligent help set up Tadeo Allende in the first half.

Now 38 years old, Suarez scored after receiving a left pass and using his body to repel the challenge of Lucas Evangelista, then led and crossed the defender Bruno Fuchs.

Although Fuchs pushed the ball with a tense heel, Suarez kept possession, sorted his diet, then propelled a fierce half-volley which sailed in front of Weverton in the near upper corner.

Allende had previously put Miami in front in the 16th minute with one of the most direct goals of the tournament. Federico Redondo released the ball from his own penalty zone, and Suarez has made a retreat race of the Circle Central to respond to authorization.

With a touch, Suarez put the ball on the Allende path in progress through the midfielder in the open space. With the defender of Palmeiras, Murilo seeming to undergo a tension in the hamstrings during the prosecution, Allende had a lot of time on the break to compose before driving a fine and low finish after Weverton.

Paulinho cut the deficit of Palmeiras in two after having run on the intelligent diagonal ball of Allan in the area, then finished in the lower left corner just in front of the challenge of Benjamin Cremaschi.

Seven minutes later, Mauricio hammered in a low emphatic finish with his first touch after he was the first in the partial clearance of Marcelo Weigandt before Palmeiras held out.

Porto 4-4 Al Ahly

Inter Miami and Palmeiras winning a point meant that each meant that the other two parts of group A – Al Ahly and Porto – were both eliminated despite a very entertaining 4-4 ​​draw at the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey.

Pepe pulled in an equalizer of the 89th minute so that Porto crowned a wild match on Monday, after Wessam Abou Ali struck a hat -trick for Al Ahly and Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane marked the fourth of the night of the Egyptian club.

But Porto went Punch for Punch and drew the level four times four times. With the time that moved away, Pepe received a pass from Gabri Veiga and led to a right shot over the penalty arc which passed the goalkeeper of Ahly Mohamed El Shenawy.

Rodrigo Mora, William Gomes and Samu Aghehowa also scored for Porto, and Claudio Ramos made six stops while dealing with Ahly’s 12 shots on the target.

But the entertaining competition turned out to be the last tournament of the two teams while they each go home without a victory.

Abu Ali opened his high score affair by rolling in a sharp angle shot from the left of the six yards box, dropping it out of the post.

He gave Al Ahly an advance from 2-1 to half time by kicking in the lower left corner of the goal. Then a minute after Gomes equaled the match, Abou Ali scored his third goal with a head off the Cross of Mohamed Hany.

Aghehowa did not wait long to do it 3-3 with a head to her, while he jumped and fueled one from a kick from Fabio Vieira.

Ben Romdhane broke out in the 64th with an explosion of the right foot from the top of the 18 yards box, assisted by Achraf Bencharki, before Pepe has the last word.