Football – Valentin Carboni scored in the second minute of second-half stoppage time to complete Inter Milan’s rally to a 2-1 victory over Urawa Red Diamonds in yesterday’s Group E encounter at the Club World Cup in Seattle.
Borussia Dortmund held off a late rally by Mamelodi Sundowns for a 4-3 victory in Cincinnati.
Carboni’s strike rescued all three points for Inter (1-0-1, 4 points) 14 minutes after Lautaro Martinez’s brilliant, volleyed 78th-minute equaliser from a corner kick.
Shusaku Nishikawa scored early for the second goal of the tournament and first from open play for the Red Diamonds (0-2-0, 0 points), who were overwhelmingly on the back foot from there on.
Inter led their Japanese foes 26-5 in total shots and 4-3 in efforts on target, though their first shot on frame didn’t come until Martinez levelled the affair with his 24th goal in all competitions this season.
Against the run of play, Watanabe put Red Diamonds in front in the 11th minute.
Takuro Kaneko created the opportunity with a wonderful slaloming run from the right into the penalty area that split two Inter defenders, before dragging a cross back toward the penalty spot.
Watanabe met it with a first-time, side-footed shot that deflected off another defender, wrongfooting goalkeeper Yann Sommer on its way into the bottom right corner.
It was Urawa’s only shot through the first hour. But Inter failed to test Nishikawa over the same stretch despite registering a dozen shot attempts of their own.
Lebo Mothiba scored in the 90th minute to cut the Sundowns’ deficit to one but they couldn’t get another shot off before stoppage time ran out.
The Sundowns got on the board first with a goal from Lucas Ribeiro in the 11th minute, but the lead was short-lived as Felix Nmecha evened the score five minutes later.
Serhou Guirassy put Dortmund ahead 2-1 in the 34th minute, then teammate Jobe Bellingham scored his first goal in his first start as the teams were about to head into halftime to make it 3-1.
Dortmund increased their lead to 4-1 on an own goal by Sundowns in the 59th minute, but the lead was trimmed to 4-2 three minutes later by the Sundowns’ Iqraam Rayners.
The Sundowns held the advantage in shot attempts 16-8, but Dortmund had more shots on goal (6-4). Sundowns goalkeeper Ronwen Williams had three saves, while counterpart Gregor Kobel of Dortmund posted one save.
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