River Plate drew 0-0 against Urawa Red Diamonds on Friday as they lead Group E while Boca Juniors find themselves third in Group C with one more match remaining.
It was a goal less draw for River Plate and despite goals from Lautaro Martinez and Valentin Carboni, both River Plate and Inter find themselves on four points each. River Plate will play Inter on Wednesday and while both are on four points and River Plate lead by one goal difference, one of them can still get eliminated.
Third place Monterrey are on two points and they play last place Urawa Red Diamonds. A win for Monterrey and a loss for either River Plate or Inter can see them eliminated from the Club World Cup.
Boca Juniors played to a 2-1 loss against Bayern Munich, despite a great goal by Miguel Merentiel. That loss keeps Boca in third place at one point, ahead of the already eliminated Auckland City. Bayern Munich have already qualified and are first on six points while Benfica are second on four points.
A draw between Benfica and Bayern Munich would eliminate Boca Juniors but a win for Bayern along with an eight goal win difference against Auckland City for Boca and it would be Boca Juniors who would advance out of the group.
Very happy to see this article for our clubs. Against Inter we will have HUGE midfield isses because we will be without Perez Galoppo an Castaño.
Odds is not favor us but i hope we could somehow find way to take one point. If we draw with 2 goals each we can advance next round even if Mexicans will win Japanese.
Just odds is far against us.
As about Boca they pay the mistakes they did against Banfica mostly. If they had played smarter things would be way different.
Anyway. Good luck to them too.