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The 54-minute header of Gonzalo García was enough to give Real Madrid a 1-0 victory over Juventus at the Hard Rock Stadium on Tuesday and reserve his place in the quarterfinals of the Club World Cup.
The Spanish giants will face the winner of the other game on Tuesday between Borussia Dortmund and Monterrey of Mexico in the last eight.
It was an impressive exhibition on the side of Madrid by Xabi Alonso and joins a positive day, Kylian Mbappe returned from the disease, arriving as a substitute for the 68 minutes for his first appearance of the tournament.
The first half was a finely balanced contest with the Juventus de Igor Tudor starting brilliantly before Real finished it at the top.
There was an early opportunity for Randal Kolo Muani de la Juve after an intelligent work by Kenan Yildiz to put it in the goal, but the French striker opted for an attempt by Chip of Thibaut Courtois and his shot floated on the bar.
The impressive Yildiz then crossed the medium and unleashed a fierce effort that diverted Aurelien Tchouameni and flew par in par.
Turin’s team, defeated 5-2 by Manchester City in his last group game, moved the ball with confidence, but real became the contest and approached when Jude Bellingham forced a rescue of Michele Di Gregorio from a short distance.
Federico Valverde then tried the Juve goalkeeper from Long Range and Trent Alexander-Arnold hit a low ball on the goal of the goal when Madrid finished half with force.
The interval did nothing to alter the impulse of the game with the real creation of several opportunities: Bellingham said goodbye to Valverde, whose sweetly beaten shot was very wide and then Bellingham himself brought another good salvation of Di Gregorio with a shot from the edge of the box.
The impulse of rockets of Dean Huijsen was stopped by the busy goalkeeper while the Real Sige to the goal of Juventus and was not a surprise when the advance finally arrived.
Alexander-Arnold floated on a cross from the right that Gonzalo found a perfectly temporary header for his third goal in four games in the tournament.
Juve responded with the Portuguese end Francisco Concicao bringing Courtois in action of a low shot, the Belgian shooting did well to have.
But Real wanted to finish the contest and Valverde tried Di Gregorio’s reactions with an air kick before Alonso decided to present Mbappe the delight of the multitude of 62,149.
However, Juve’s belief remained and Nicolas González showed a 25 -yard wide trip.
At the other extreme, the Turkish midfielder of Real, Arda Gular, saw his crunchy injection maintained by Di Gregorio’s feet, but the only goal was enough.
