Guirassy's double sends Dortmund to CWC QF

Borussia Dortmund held disconnected a stirring second-half fightback from Monterrey to implicit the Club World Cup quarter-final line-up with a 2-1 triumph successful a round-of-16 thriller astatine the Mercedes-Benz Arena connected Tuesday.

Clinical finishes from Serhou Guirassy successful the 14th and 24th minutes enactment Dortmund connected apical astatine the interruption but German Berterame deed backmost for Monterrey successful the 48th infinitesimal and the Mexican nine pressed for an equaliser until the last whistle.

The Dortmund defence held firm, however, to acceptable up a last-eight gathering with 15-times European champions Real Madrid successful New Jersey connected Saturday.

There volition beryllium nary reunion for the Bellingham family, however, with a yellowish paper shown to Dortmund's Jobe successful the 28th infinitesimal ruling him retired of the clash with large member Jude's Real.

The archetypal 10 minutes of the clash were frenetic with plentifulness of full-blooded challenges and the archetypal of a drawstring of unsafe long-range shots from Monterrey's Nelson Deossa the champion of the aboriginal efforts.

Dortmund onslaught duo Guirassy and Karim Adeyemi took implicit successful the 14th infinitesimal with a neat speech of touches connected the borderline of the container mounting the erstwhile escaped to drill the shot wrong the adjacent post.

Monterrey near winger Jesus Corona deed the extracurricular of the station with a cross-shot and different Deossa onslaught tested goalkeeper Gregor Kobel minutes aboriginal but Dortmund soon doubled the lead.

Julian Ryerson won possession with a carnal situation and his long-ball recovered Adeyemi racing towards goal, the 23-year-old holding up his tally earlier laying the shot connected a sheet for Guirassy to slot it past goalkeeper Esteban Andrada.

Guirassy should person had a hat-trick earlier halftime but spurned gilt-edged chances provided by Bellingham and Pascal Gross passes.

Monterrey brought their fans backmost into the lucifer with a storming commencement to the 2nd half, however, and rapidly chopped the shortage successful half.

Corona, a changeless menace passim the match, curled a transverse to the acold station wherever Erick Aguirre headed the shot backmost crossed extremity and Berterame nodded it past Kobel.

Monterrey continued to determination guardant looking for an equaliser, Corona having 1 accidental saved by Kobel and blasting different implicit the barroom earlier Berterame recovered the nett from an offside position.

A mates of 70th infinitesimal substitutions helped Dortmund find a spot much composure and Guirassy had a mates of half-chances to drawback his 3rd extremity earlier Monterrey got backmost connected the attack.

Sergio Ramos, who was hoping for his ain reunion with Real, moved guardant to assistance his forwards and grazed the extracurricular of the station with a header successful the past fewer seconds of mean clip but determination was to beryllium nary fairytale decorativeness for the Spain great.