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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Luke McLaughlin

Urawa Red Diamonds 0-3 Manchester City: Club World Cup semi-final – as it happened

Mateo Kovacic of Manchester City celebrates his goal.
Mateo Kovacic of Manchester City celebrates his goal. Photograph: Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images

That was all she wrote for the semi-finals of the Club World Cup.

Manchester City will meet Fluminense in Friday’s final and we’ll have live MBM coverage here, to see who wins that.

Thanks for reading and emailing in, goodbye, and don’t forget to read Nick Ames’ match report:

Updated

Semi-finals do not come much easier than this. Manchester City will fight for the World Club Cup title against Fluminense on Friday and they were not given the slightest trouble by Urawa Red Diamonds, who only managed one shot all night.

The Japanese side had held out gamely enough until Marius Høibråten, their centre-back, scored an unnecessary own goal in first-half stoppage time; from there the score could have been anything City wanted but they settled for further strikes from Mateo Kovacic and Bernardo Silva, both of which stemmed from marvellous pieces of initiative from their own defenders.

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