The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has sent the English giants, Manchester City, who got out of the club’s World Cup, as it snatched 4-3 shock at an additional time in the biggest turmoil in the tournament so far.
The match finished 2-2 full-time on Monday, but at the end of the additional time with events, Marcus Leonardo acquired the winner and withdrawn one of the greatest victories in the history of football in the Middle East.
The Saudi club is now leading to the quarter -finals, as it will face the Brazilian club Fluminse, which will ensure that a non -European team will reach the last four.
Man City had taken the initiative in the ninth minute in a controversial way, as Bernardo Silva ended after the Ryan Ait Nuri Cross.
Hillal players protested that Ait-Nouri was controlling his arm in accumulation, but the goal is to stop.
Man City had a lot of opportunities to expand his progress before the break, but a mixture of the poor in the end and inspired Moroccan goalkeeper Yassin Bono kept the lead in one goal.

Hillal offered many reminders to threaten them at the end of the first half, but Man City had more opportunities, as Jeremy Duku was calming directly in Puno, whose reaction was later again again to keep Bernardo’s effort.
The question has been answered about whether Man City will live to regret not to convert these opportunities within a minute of appeal.
The former back of the city, Joao Cangleo, was listed by Ederson. Malcolm turned, but he saw his shot blocked by Robin Dias, only until the ball was able to make the ball to beautify the draw to the home.
Six minutes later, the city’s high defense line was displayed by a long ballo ball, racing against Brazilian Malcolm, and showed power and speed as it collapsed before Esran was brilliantly crossed.
The Saudi fans went to the crowd while the city’s director Pep Guardiola immediately responded to the replacement of three times, as midfielder Rodri and defenders Nathan Ak and Manuel Akanji presented.
This brought some stability to be needed for a fragile back line, but the city needed an improvement in the other side as well, and it came, although it was in dark circumstances.
Defense for Hillal was unable to deal with the Bernardo Corner and Halland’s retreat to direct the ball home and make it 2-2.
City accumulated to pressure while searching for the winner, but again Puno proved their enemy because he denied Akanji and Robin Dias, and even when he was beaten by Halland, the alternative to Lagami produced a wonderful clearance on the goal line.
Guardiola took off Halland and the Egyptian striker Omar Marmoush presented, as she entered the game at an additional time.
But despite the depth of the city, Hillal had a deep well to take advantage of it. Just four minutes after the opening period, Al Hilal regained the lead when Kalidou Koulbally rose wonderfully to meet the Robin Nevis corner with a brilliant corner head.
City responded with the goal of real quality when the ball that Ryan Chirki was brilliantly exposed to the background by Phil Foden, along and the most severe angles.
But incredibly, Allal responded again to restore his progress: the head of Serge Milkovic Savic was rescued by Erceon but Marcus Leonardo followed him to collect the ball over the line.
When Al -Hilal fans poured the celebration of the stadium, the Brazilian striker allowed his emotions to flow also.
“I have faced a difficult time in the past two months. My mother spent 70 days in the intensive care unit,” he said.
“Today, she is fine, thank God. When I scored these two goals, I thought about it. She was able to watch the match.”
City captain Bernardo Silva said his team paid the price because he was unable to deal with the anti -helal attack.
He said: “We have registered three, and we could have registered five, six, the whole thing was about controlling when we lost the ball and controlled the transformations, and did not let them run, and ran several times.”
“With one, they were passed, there was always a feeling of the danger coming from them. When we allow the difference to run like this, we always suffer a lot, and today it was so,” he said.

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