Re: ⚽ FIFA Club World Cup 2025 - USA: Discussion Thread ⚽

Dortmund 4 - 2 Mamelodi Sundowns

2 goals scored by Dortmund were mistakes from Sundowns players and another one was own goal. 2 goals scored by Sundowns were come from their effort without the mistake by Dortmund.

Probably Sundowns players lack of mentality or get pressure due to met Dortmund, you know how popular Dortmund is.

If we check from the history, Sundowns were rarely to score more than 3 goals, I think they will lose in this match.

Dortmund is way ahead of sundown's in terms of the quality of play and even the players I was even surprised to see that sundown's where even winning before Dortmund equalized Dortmund is showing that they have the experience more than sundown's I expects more goals from Dortmund in this game because Dortmund did not impress in their first match

Dortmund won the game 4-3 against South African team Mamelodi Sundowns and it also makes they qualify for the knockout round. It was a tightly contested game where Dortmund needed to work hard to save their 4-1 advantage as Mamelodi put on a high pressure and Dortmund went into defense. They were lucky to get a win by 1 goal.
The two teams moving to knockout from Group A is finalized, its just the position that needs to be confirmed. Palmeiras and Inter Miami are into the knockouts as Porto eliminates. On Group B, Botafogo is into the next round while PSG has better chance against Atletico as PSG would be playing to weaker team Seattle Sounders while Atletico meets Botafogo. Except Atletico and Porto, all of popular European teams still have a good chance to advance to the knockouts.

Mamelodi sundown tried very well in competing with a strong side like Borussia dormund, infact mamelodi sundown were able to maintain a better ball possessions throughout the whole halves than Borussia dormund. I would say it was out of playing influence that Borussia dormund were able to defeat mamelodi sundown. Borussia dormund were just so lucky to have won today game if not it would have ended up as a Draw. Congratulations to Borussia dormund for today victory over mamelodi sundown.

When I saw the goals especially the equalizer I felt Dortmund are back to do the needful but things changed in the second half and the pressure became too much for Dortmund and they couldn't stop the force of the Sundown team. I also agree with you that Dortmund are lucky in that encounter if not it would have been goodbye to this competition but all the same, I'd blame the South Africa team for their mistakes because they became too comfortable in the game after they got the first goal, a dtsw would have been a better result but it went Dortmund's way 3-4 was the final score which I'm not happy about because Dortmund are not in any way serious and they don't deserve to be the winner tonight.

Yeah, this match was total chaos! Borussia looked like they had it wrapped up at 4-1, but the way they let Mamelodi back in — that was worrying. Defensively, Dortmund just switched off. Mamelodi Sundowns actually finished the match with a higher xG than Dortmund, which says a lot. If the match lasted 5 more minutes, I’m not sure Dortmund would’ve held on. Still, they got the win, and Job Bellingham’s first goal was a bright spot. What a rollercoaster.