Borussia Dortmund held a tough comeback from the South African champion Mamelodi Sundowns to achieve a 4-3 victory on Saturday and to get closer to the knock-out phase of the Club World Cup.
Dortmund walked after 11 minutes in the TQL stadium, but Rally to win his second game in Group F and to move the top of the rankings with four points, one more than sunset.
Felix Nmecha, Serhou Guirassy and Jobe Bellingham scored for the Bundesliga Club, who also benefited from its own goal.
Lucas Ribeiro had given sundowns in the lead, while Iqraam Rayners and Lebo Mothiba scored in the second half when the side looked to collect 4-1 in a competitive game that was played with an afternoon trap in flaring hot circumstances.
Ribeiro burst through a static defense of Dortmund, grabbed the ball on the half line and slides past two opponents to score a shock opener.
But the leadership lasted only five minutes for a disastrous mistake by Sundowns goalkeeper Ronwen Williams, who played a short pass to Nmecha, who had an easy tap-in for the equalizer.
Dortmund took place after a slick set of two steps between Julian Brandt and Guirassy, who flowed home with his head.
Bellingham, in his second performance for Dortmund, made it 3-1 after the rest of the peace when Williams burned the cross of Brandt directly to him, and he delayed photography for a fraction of a second before he wrongly football.
Rayners struck the woodwork for sunset 10 minutes in the second half, but in the hour Mark, the cross of Daniel Svensson from the left, took a poor deflection of Sundowns’ Fullback Khuliso Mudau while Dortmund expanded his lead.
Two minutes later, the South African side withdrew one when the free kick from Toho Mokoena was driven to Rayners, who hit the foot of the post but did not waste the second chance of the rebound.
Mothiba struck in the 90th minute while sunset stretched the possession and the replacement scored up close, but the side could not find an equalizer.
