27/6/2025–|Last update: 14:38 (Mecca time)
The Italian coach, Simone Inzaghi, confirmed that his team “in the Club World Cup, to reach as much as possible”, after reaching the final price after beating the Mexican Pachuca 2-0 at dawn on Friday in the third round of the Group Eight competitions.
Al-Hilal achieved its first victory with Inzaghi since he moved to him on June 5 from Inter Milan, after he tied in the first two games with Real Madrid 1-1 and Austrian Selzburg negatively.
The Saudi team-which became the only Arab team that crossed the exclusionary roles in the World Championship-ranked second with 5 points, hitting a date with Manchester City in the final price, while Real Madrid will play the group’s leaders and the winner of Salzburg 3-0 with Juventus.
“Very happy with the match. I was very satisfactory to us. I congratulate the team, the fans and the club’s administrative apparatus. Since our first day in the United States, we have elaborated the 16 best teams in the competition,” Inzaghi said at the press conference after the match. “We are here to reach as far as possible,” he added.
Al -Hilal will play on Monday with the leaders of the Group Seven and the only team to achieve the full mark in the group stage, at the “Camping World Stadium” in Orlando.
This will be the third confrontation between Inzaghi and the Spanish coach Pep Guardiola, after they met twice in the Champions League when the first was coach of Inter Milan.
Inzaghi commented on this confrontation, “I think Guardiola is a great coach, and it is a pleasure to play against Manchester City. As a coach he had previously faced in the Champions League and we know each other and we met more than once. I think the match will be very strong against one of the best clubs and one of the best coaches.”
“We saw that City is playing in an excellent way in the World Cup clubs. This is a match that we look a lot to and will be a match to grow and take a new step to the next level.”
In turn, Salem Al -Dossary, who scored the first goal against Pachuka and won the award for the best player, said, “We have not come to participate, but to supervise the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
“I do not want to anticipate the events, and we must go up the ladder step by step. The first step is to ascend to the round of 16,” he added about the team’s ambition after reaching the final price.