The last jewel in the crown, Manchester City conquers the world

Manchester City closed the circle, completing an unparalleled season in English football with the conquest of the Club World Cup, the fifth success they achieved in the season after beating Fluminense 4-0 without setbacks, who could not break the spell they are pursuing to South American football in this competition nor the encounter of the Spanish Pep Guardiola with history.

The first coach to win four Club World Cup titles, also with three different teams, two with Barcelona, one with Bayern Munich and this one with Manchester City, has led City to achievements that were unthinkable not long ago. The Club World Cup rounds off a spectacular year that joins the conquests of the Premier League, the English Cup, the Champions League and the European Super Cup. The only thing that eluded him was the English Super Cup, Community Shield, which Arsenal took from him in the penalty shootout.

Manchester City has not left any other loose ends this year, one step away from the legendary sextet, which expands Guardiola's resume, already with 37 titles in his backpack, and underlines the power of the English champion in recent times. The fourth Premier club to win the World Cup after Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United, enjoyed a final without excessive surprises, an uneven duel from the beginning that reflected from the start the distance between football on the Old Continent and that of Conmebol, without success since Cointhians beat Chelsea in the 2012 edition.

And in one of the first plays of the duel, City opened the scoring. In the initial minute. Fluminense, who was condemned for his own mistakes, committed suicide. Marcelo had a big one, after a throw-in, a meaningless shot of his, into no man's land, where Nathan Ake was, who advanced a few meters and from very far away fired a shot that repelled the post. There was Julián Álvarez, who, with his chest, beat Fabio. Only forty seconds had passed. It was the fastest goal in a Club World Cup final.

The Grand Finale

It was the City youth player who scored the third, which rounded off the victory for the English team. In the 72nd minute, when he received a wonderful pass from the left, inside the area, from Julián Álvarez. Foden did not fail, as he beat Fabio for the third time and sealed the first Club World Cup in Manchester City's history. Erected as the man of the match, Julián Álvarez put the finishing touch. The Argentine opened and closed the scoring, who in the final stretch, from the front, after finding space, received a pass from the right from Matheus Nunes and rounded off the English victory and their success.