Although Auckland City FC was slaughtered in the match against Bayern, it was still an experience for them. It should have given the coach and players that they still have to training hard to win. But even though they lost, coach Ivan Vicelich said he was still proud of his team's performance. That's natural because his team is not purely football players. Some of the players work as sales, real estate agents and others.
Even though Bayern Munich managed to score 10 goals or even more, they often slaughtered small teams. The FIFA Club World Cup is not much different from the long friendship that was carried out before the league started, and this is just the beginning until Bayern Munich finds worthy opponents like PSG, Manchester City, and Madrid. Btw Auckland City FC does not have any targets, they only try to appear and being able to play with elite teams is more than enough so losing is not a problem. The experience of being able to play with a team as great, as famous, and as elite as Bayern Munich is one of the dreams of many small clubs.
The club World Cup isn’t balanced now as it is, we would certainly come to that time where the usual teams in Europe would start having fixtures against themselves and the games would be really entertaining as we would expect.
Though, the Atletico Madrid game against PSG yesterday was one that was supposed to be the first tight fixture of the season but nope, PSG showed real dominance in the game, winning both halves cleanly while keeping a clean sheet. You would have to applaud the Enrique side for how they are playing since the UCL, they posses the midfield and just any forward could finish.