Monterrey into CWC last 16 after Urawa thumping

Monterrey booked a spot successful the knockout rounds of the Club World Cup with a thumping 4-0 triumph implicit Urawa Red Diamonds astatine the Rose Bowl connected Wednesday to assertion 2nd spot successful Group E and acceptable up a past 16 gathering with Borussia Dortmund.

Three goals successful 8 first-half minutes sent Monterrey connected their mode to victory, with stunning long-range strikes from Nelson Deossa and Jesús Corona coming either broadside of German Berterame's chill finish.

Deossa enactment Monterrey successful beforehand connected the half-hour people with a swerving changeable from 35 yards and Berterame doubled the vantage 4 minutes later.

Corona added the 3rd with the prime of the goals from region successful the 38th infinitesimal earlier Berterame added the 4th successful second-half stoppage time.

The win, coupled with Inter Milan's 2-0 triumph implicit River Plate, means Monterrey decorativeness 2nd and volition instrumentality connected Dortmund successful Atlanta connected Tuesday.

"I'm truly precise blessed we're successful the adjacent stage," said Monterrey manager Domenec Torrent. "On Saturday the nine is celebrating 80 years truthful it's a precise peculiar moment.

"We're precise blessed due to the fact that we person a cleanable sheet, it's not casual successful this radical particularly with the radical that we had."

Urawa, who were already eliminated aft losing their opening 2 games, should person gone up midway done the archetypal fractional erstwhile Ryoma Watanabe slid a walk done to Yusuke Matsuo but his mediocre archetypal interaction gave Ricardo Chavez capable clip to artifact the goal-bound strike.

Monterrey's opener came connected the half-hour people erstwhile cardinal midfielder Deossa recovered abstraction to deed a thunderous, swerving left-foot onslaught from midway wrong the Urawa fractional that near goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa flapping.

Monterrey's 2nd came 4 minutes aboriginal arsenic José Alvarado slipped a walk into Berterame, who bent a debased changeable into the bottommost country of the Urawa goal.

Worse was to travel for the erstwhile Asian champions arsenic Monterrey struck again from distance, Corona smashing his effort from 30 yards retired beyond Nishikawa's dive.

Nishikawa prevented Monterrey from adding to the mauling aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional erstwhile helium blocked Chavez's effort, and Berterame missed retired connected his 2nd erstwhile helium pulled his changeable wide successful the 52nd minute.

Watanabe enactment a precocious escaped footwear implicit the barroom arsenic the Japanese broadside looked for a consolation extremity but Berterame slid successful to stab the shot implicit from adjacent scope successful the 97th infinitesimal to seal an emphatic Monterrey win.