Inter come up short again in Club World Cup defeat

Brazilian Side Fluminense Rode Their Luck Late On To Hold On and Beat Inter Milan and Set Up A Club World Cup Quarter-Final Against Either Manchester City or Al-Hilal.

Champions League Finalists Inter Were Sloppy from the Off and Fell Behind Early on when German Cano Headed A Loose Ball Past Yann Sommer.

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Fluminense Were Well on Top for the First 65 minutes or so as the Lethargic Serie A Side Struggled to Create Anything of Note.

But inter -finully found some threat late on.

First, Defender Stefan de Vrij Somhow Mosed from A Few Yards Out After Captain Lautaro Martinez Headed Across.

Martinez was then denied by a Fine Sve by Fluminense’s 44-Year-Old Goalkeeper Fabio, Before He Hit A Low Shot Against the Post.

The Argentine Could Barely Believe His Lack of Luck, and Fluminense then walked upfield in Added Time to Add a Second Through Substitute Hercules.

90 + 3 ‘Heculeeeeeeeeeeeee! 💥

Fluzão Strike in Extra Time to Make It 2-0! 🇭🇺

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There was Still Time for Inter To Hit The Crossbar Through Federico Dimarco But the Final Whistle at a Sparsely Populated Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte Saw Jubilant Scenes from the Fluminense Bench.

City or Al-Hilal Will Have A Tough Ask in the quarter-final.

90+6 ‘Fluminense Living on the Edge. The Post Comes to the Rescue Once More! 🧱⚽

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