Benfica pull off upset of Bayern to win Group C

Benfica's Andreas Schjelderup struck successful the archetypal fractional to seal a 1-0 triumph implicit Bayern Munich successful sweltering vigor connected Tuesday, sending the Portuguese broadside to the apical of Group C astatine the Club World Cup.

After securing their first-ever triumph implicit Bayern, Benfica volition look Chelsea oregon Esperance de Tunis successful the past 16. Bayern, finishing second, are acceptable to look Group D leaders Flamengo.

"I deliberation our archetypal fractional wasn't bully astatine all. With the transportation and the heat, I conscionable feared this wouldn't spell arsenic fluid arsenic normal," Bayern manager Vincent Kompany told DAZN.

"It's football. If you person chances and don't instrumentality them, you wage the price... [against Flamengo] it's going to beryllium a pugnacious game. We cognize we tin make chances."

Schjelderup broke the deadlock aft 13 minutes with a first-time decorativeness disconnected Fredrik Aursnes' debased transverse from the right, capitalising connected a lapse successful Bayern's backline.

With Bayern already assured of a spot successful the adjacent round, their rotated lineup lacked urgency. The Germans improved aft the interruption and Joshua Kimmich thought helium had equalised, but his effort was ruled retired for Harry Kane being offside.

Benfica goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin played a cardinal relation successful preserving the lead, producing crisp saves to contradict Aleksandar Pavlovic and Leroy Sané.

"It was a bully crippled against an astonishing team, it was not lone me, it was the full team," said Trubin, who was named antheral of the match. "It was highly hot, but we did our job."

Benfica manager Bruno Lage said his squad came into the lucifer with a batch of assurance contempt a grounds of nary wins, 3 draws and 10 losses to Bayern successful the club's history.

"The archetypal fractional was precise good, we created the champion chances to score. We wanted to beryllium assertive and we finished archetypal successful the radical and the feeling is good," Lage said. "We finished archetypal and it means a batch for us. People request to judge much successful the enactment we are doing. They were speaking astir Boca needing to triumph by a batch of goals [to advance] and they forgot astir this game.

"No 1 believed we were going to triumph against Bayern."

Information from Reuters was utilized successful this story.