Robert Lewandowski scored twice as Bayern Munich cruised into the Club World Cup last with a managed 2-0 win over Egyptian membership Al Ahly on Monday.
Bayern was firmly in charge of the semifinal towards the African champion and took the lead within the seventeenth minute when David Alaba cued up Lewandowski in house within the penalty space to hammer a shot in low.
Lewandowski missed an opportunity for 2-0 when he despatched a lob over the bar with solely the goalkeeper to beat late within the first half, however made up for it with a header off Leroy Sané’s cross within the 86th.
In the ultimate on Thursday, Hansi Flick’s workforce will tackle Mexican membership Tigres, which beat Brazil’s Palmeiras 1-0 on Sunday. That made Tigres the primary workforce from CONCACAF to succeed in a Club World Cup last.
Bayern is taking part in for what can be its sixth title in 12 months after the German league and cup, the Champions League, and the German and European Super Cups.
The Club World Cup is often a low-intensity manner for the Champions League winner so as to add one other trophy to its assortment towards opponents with comparatively miniscule budgets. Bayern’s solely Club World Cup title to this point in 2013, beating Raja Casablanca of Morocco within the last, began a run of seven consecutive wins by European groups.
Playing in Qatar meant a dramatic change of temperature for Bayern. The German workforce performed in driving snow at Hertha Berlin on Friday earlier than flying to the gas-rich Middle Eastern nation, the place daytime temperatures in current days have been near 30 levels (86 F).
Bayern has longstanding sponsorship ties to Qatar and has continuously held coaching camps there, to the opposition of some supporters’ teams involved about human rights within the 2022 World Cup host nation.