DOHA (Qatar): Benjamin Pavard scored the all-important goal to help Bayern Munich beat Tigres UANL in the final and win their second FIFA Club World Cup.
It also completed a magnificent sextuple for the Bavarian behemoths, emulating the achievement of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona in 2009/10.
Pavard found the target in the 59th minute.
Bayern thought they had taken the lead in the 18th minute. The in-form Joshua Kimmich hit a brilliant, outside of the boot shot from distance into the bottom corner, but after checking VAR it was determined Robert Lewandowski, who had jumped over the ball, was offside and the goal was disallowed.
Soon after Kingsley Coman cannily tricked his way inside from the left and forced Nahuel Guzman into a smart save, before Leroy Sane hit the post from distance.
Bayern made the breakthrough just before the hour mark. Lewandowski’s header from Kimmich’s inch-perfect cross was blocked by Guzman, but the ball fell to Benjamin Pavard, who tucked in into the unguarded net. VAR checked to see if there had been an offside, but the goal stood.
Guzman then pushed a Colentin Tolisso effort on to the post, and made a double save from Douglas Costa and Kimmich.
Tigres, to their credit, never gave up and Andre-Pierre Gignac, metres out, was inches away from connecting with a Javier Aquino flick-on in the final stages, but Bayern were wholly deserving of their victory. (Source: FIFA)
