Harry Kane and Olise marked for Bayern, who needed to suffer until the end to overcome a combative mouth that now depends on others.
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The clear victory of Boca Juniors in the stands could not be transferred to the pitch, where Bayern Munich was superior and achieved a minimum victory (2-1) that classifies the eighths, and that makes Boca depend on the result of Benfica to dream of the next phase.
A goal by Michael Olise in the absence of five minutes for the end of the regulatory time not only gave the three points to Bayern, but also broke with the undefeated that the teams Conmebol held in the Club World Cup. This is the first defeat of a South American team in ten players played, six of them against European rivals.
With a point and difference of -1 goal, Boca will need to beat the Auckland City on the third date and a defeat of Benfica (+6) against a Bayern that is already classified, but not as first group.
Despite the defeat, the support of Boca Juniors' fans was constant from the beginning, regardless of the scoreboard and the clear domain that Bayern demonstrated as soon as the initial whistle sounded.
Settined comfortably in the opposite field, thanks to the danger they transmitted by Banda Kingsley Coman and Olise, the Germans soon took off their domain.
In minute 8 the first arrived. A corner kick thrown out by Olise ended directly on the meshes defended by Agustín Marchesín. The review of the VAR, however, annulled the goal to understand that Serge Gnabry had grabbed – clariously – the goalkeeper and prevented him from stopping the ball.
Little had to say the referee just ten minutes later, when a great center of Raphael Guerreiro from the right was rejected by the defense and fell to the feet of Harry Kane, totally free, at the penalty spot. A definition that has practiced a thousand times, a goal that has put a thousand times. His shot, to the corner and far from the goalkeeper, left no doubt.
Boca, who started with Lautaro Di Lollo and Tomás Belmonte in the initial eleven for the casualties of Ander Herrera and Jorge Figal, both expelled in the previous match against Benfica, took half an hour to infect his hobby, tireless, and enjoy the first occasions.
Kevín Zenon, first with a direct foul from the front and then with a chut inside the area, had it double. But Manuel Neuer is a lot of Neuer, and took a savior arm in the second that maintained 0 on the Boca score.
The Bayern continued to tighten until the break, always spurred by the verticality of Coman, Gnabry and Olise, but could not expand its advantage.
As if the pitch was inclined towards the same goal, Boca soon tightened in the second half, showing a danger he never had in the first 45 minutes and that he had demonstrated before Benfica.
However, it was Bayern who had another loose ball again in the penalty spot ten minutes of the resumption. But Gnabry is not Kane and his hard shot to the center was comfortably arrested by Marchesín.
The instinct of the 9 that Gnabry lacked was the one that demonstrated shortly after Miguel Merentiel. To a unchecking to space from the midfield, probably thrown more with the heart than with his head, he followed a highway to be left alone before Neuer and beat him with solvency. The stands had reasons to come up and shake the stadium -literally.
Boca's improvement had been accompanied by a lower participation of Gnabry and Comán, who were replaced by Jamal Musiala and Leroy Sané. Progressively, the Germans bowed again the land towards the goal of Marchesín.
Thus, between substitutions and stops, the last ten minutes were reached without the ball having gone through the areas in a long time.
But in a play locked with multiple rejects inside the area, more typical of the school patio than from the Club World Cup, ended another loose ball on the front that this time pushed Gol Olise well.
The bellows seemed to have been exhausted in the Argentine team, and it was the Bayern who continued to tighten to achieve the third. Luckily for Boca, he managed to minimize damage. He will play to beat the New Zealand team.
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