Club World Cup Daily: Ait-Nouri stars for Man City in dominant win over Juventus

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The lead: Rayan Aït-Nouri shows people successful Man City triumph implicit Juventus

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Manchester City haven't had a recognized near backmost successful the squad for astir 4 years, but Rayan Aït-Nouri seems determined to amusement Pep Guardiola what he's been missing, playing a cardinal relation successful Thursday's 5-2 win implicit Juventus.

It was August 2021 erstwhile City past played with a due near backmost -- Benjamin Mendy's last quality earlier helium was suspended by the club. Guardiola has made bash successful the meantime with a bid of stopgaps. Nathan Aké, João Cancelo, Aymeric Laporte, Josko Gvardiol and Nico O'Reilly person each filled in. Bernardo Silva and Phil Foden were pressed into enactment during in-game emergencies.

Aït-Nouri, though, is already showing the benefits of having a specialist. After arriving from Wolverhampton Wanderers up of the Club World Cup, the 24-year-old was truthful agleam connected his debut against Al Ain that erstwhile Guardiola was asked to measure his performance, helium simply said: "Wow."

The City brag picked a stronger squad against Juventus -- handing starts to Rodri and Rúben Dias for the archetypal clip -- and Aït-Nouri was adjacent better. He created 2 large chances wrong the opening 10 minutes. After conscionable 4 minutes, the Algerian -- playing precocious up the transportation and tucked into midfield astatine times -- arrowed a transverse astatine Bernardo Silva, who saw his header saved. Moments later, it was Aït-Nouri's pinpoint walk done the Juventus defence that allowed Jérémy Doku to chopped wrong and people the archetypal successful what was an awesome triumph implicit the Italian broadside astatine Camping World Stadium. Aït-Nouri astir capped his first-half show with a extremity of his own, but his changeable into the turf from extracurricular the container was stopped from nestling successful the country by a diving Michele Di Gregorio.

It's precisely the benignant of attacking output that Aït-Nouri was brought successful to produce. He got 5 goals for Wolves successful each competitions past season. Perhaps adjacent much awesome was his 7 Premier League assists. That matched Kevin De Bruyne's output and was 1 much than Trent Alexander-Arnold.

It's inactive aboriginal days, but Aït-Nouri looks to person filled a gaping spread successful Guardiola's team. And having signed a interest of lone £31 million, helium could yet spell down arsenic 1 of the transfers of the summer. -- Rob Dawson

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Vlahovic struggles successful his Premier League audition

Dusan Vlahovic is arguably the subordinate who has been linked astir with a determination to the Premier League without really coming adjacent to a transportation to England's apical flight. The Juventus guardant went into the Group G clash against Manchester City with reports successful Italy suggesting that helium is connected Manchester United's database of summertime targets.

In the past, the 25-year-old has been targeted by Arsenal, Chelsea, West Ham United, Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur, but aft hitting 49 goals successful 108 games for Fiorentina, helium opted to enactment successful Italy with a determination to Juventus successful 2022. With Juventus unfastened to offers for Vlahovic this summer, the crippled against City was a accidental to beryllium his credentials to United, oregon immoderate different large nine successful the marketplace for a caller striker, but the Serbia guardant had a frustrating 90 minutes against Pep Guardiola's broadside successful Orlando.

Vlahovic missed 2 bully chances earlier yet getting connected the scoresheet successful the 84th infinitesimal -- erstwhile the crippled was mislaid for Juventus, who had already conceded 5 against City. And portion helium took his extremity good to marque the people 5-2, Vlahovic struggled against City defenders Ruben Dias and Manuel Akanji and did small to suggest helium could beryllium the reply to United's goalscoring problems. -- Mark Ogden

Al Ain exit tourney with triumph implicit Wydad

With nary consequences connected Thursday, Al Ain finished their Club World Cup information with a breezy, engaged 2-1 win implicit Wydad AC successful Nashville to guarantee they went location connected a precocious note.

It has been a pugnacious tourney for the 2023-24 AFC Champions League winners, whose naive defending was picked isolated to the tune of 11 goals by Man City and Juventus. Early successful Thursday's clash, it looked to beryllium different agelong day arsenic the Moroccan broadside recovered the nett wrong 4 minutes: close backmost Mohamed Moufid's debased transverse recovered Cassius Mailula unmarked successful the box, and Mailula had clip to power and occurrence into the apical country beyond Rui Patrício.

Yet Al Ain rapidly regrouped and bossed overmuch of the archetypal half, with 8 shots and implicit 60% of the ball. They got their well-deserved equalizer successful first-half wounded time, with Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba converting a punishment -- aft immoderate 30 seconds of waiting -- pursuing Ayoub Boucheta's clumsy challenge. Then, conscionable 5 minutes into the 2nd half, they scored again successful somewhat arguable fashion. Kaku's curled, left-footed decorativeness from 15 yards retired was highlight-worthy, but rewatching his extremity reveals Al Ain's bully fortune. Matías Palacios looked to person mislaid possession wrong the country aft a clumsy touch, but remarkably, helium won the escaped shot with a dense situation -- 1 fortunate not to person been reviewed -- earlier getting backmost to his feet and uncovering Romero unmarked for the elegant finish.

The 2nd fractional played retired astatine a gentler gait from there, with Al Ain preventing Wydad from registering a azygous changeable connected people en way to victory.

In the end, Group G was truly the lone radical to beryllium resolved earlier the last circular of games, which is simply a cruel destiny for 2 teams that brought plentifulness of panache successful their carry-on luggage for this Club World Cup party. -- James Tyler